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Marjorie Reynolds, film starlet, woars a light blue crepe spectators sports diess with navy trim. Hor Ascot is of navy blue with polka dots, and her matching straw hat has a gros grain band and streamer. Her kid bag and shoes are navy blue.
Thonging to a new Ades_for_peimel trimming.
"CHARMED magic casements." These words of Kents always come to my mind when I am planning to dress the windows in their new finery.
Our magic casaments may open only on to a green lawn with the flowers budding round and the vegotable patch nicely dug over, but doesn't this optimistic string out- look make you want to perk up the house to match all the brightness outdoors?
It is just like having a new hal.
Windows are the gateway for sun-
shine to gut into the house. They're scroll design for
the eyes of the home and we must
keep them bright and cheerful.
Frilled ninon or
pelmets.
ে
-but there are homes and homes
a
TIME to Window DRESS
Says JANET JAY
One simple way of making a change sumuuery peach, green and gold in the rooms is to have new curtains, scheme, with peachninen or organdi. which can also make a variation be- glass curtains, peach and green shades tween winter and sunumer colour in the eretonne draw curtains, peach schemes.
Suppose you
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have warm brown,
cushions for the bed and for the ann- chair, and a new set of peach organdi dressing-table mats.
You could perhaps make a change
drange or vine velvet winter curtains without going to the expense of new the scheme is in greens and browns, curtains.
for the citing-room, and the rest of
The room will look different for
if you haven't so far had a pelmet,
suinmer if you substitute cretonne or try one for the sliting-roon. 1 am, chintz-satin curtains, with pattern in sure you will like the finished look orange or wine with green on a light it gives the window.
Around. One or two envelope cases
And new set of organdi or malin
for the cushions could be made to glass curtains relleves the severity of match.
plain draw curtains.
Or perhaps you have a green and Pelmets are easy to make, provided gold bedroom. Transform this to a you take careful measurements.
Evening Frocks Are All a-Glitter
By ELEANOR GUNN
'NEW YORK-H you like glitter, skip its pussibilities with tho mèro
the season's evening dresses are for mention that is being revived-with;
you. Some are harsh and entirely caution.
too bright to be humanly possible to wear woll, but others are all they
The girls who graduate, either
claim to be, which is to any gay and from college or into matrimony, teem sparkling. Goodness, knows we can immensely intrigued with the sialue- all stand for such.
draped silk jerseys, usually white, with full-skirted chiffons of the There's something about shiny whirling dervish type. They are not black sequins which, ilke ostrich so keen for the cigarette or match feathers, is likely to appeal to the silhouettes, It's drapery or gallers wrong people. Yot bolh sequins and for them. feathers are elegant, and when worn
HOW SMART ARE YOU? Be honest; would you have known. how to solve these everyday pro- blems that might be yours?
Q
The Atkinsons have just moved into a small, bright house that has rather low cellings. For the sitting-room, which faces south, Mrs. A. bought a modern square-looking- Chesterfield Buite covered in a nice flowered chintz, and had curtains made to match the covers. She bought four
A box-pleated frill would look well on a chairs, a bureau, a pouffe, a low "cottagey" window, and, like the pelmet, could be coffee table, a tea-table, and had one What made of a plain material to contrast with patterned wall lined with bookshelves.
would have struck you about the curtains, or vice versa.
Now about lengths and shapes. Floor-length room if you had gone to tea with Mrs. draw curtains look best, but if you prefer them A short, let them hang at least two inches below the window slu.
Before you got claustro- phobia you would have
I make them half as wide again as the win-noticed she had too much furniture: dow: this ensures that the curtains still hang in
a large suite is overpowering in pretty folds when they are drawn across at night. small room. Two armchairs and a Instead of straight-hanging, full-length cur- small couch would be enough for try tying them back to comfort. And in a small room large tains, you might like
100 an old style owered materials are over- the sides of the window. This is revived, but it looks specially well for tall sash win whelming. With small furniture and dows. The draped curtains help to soften the plain fabrics, the room would look
twice the size, ✩ ⭑
and
outline.
or
Materials? Cretonnes
the chintz-satin just mentioned are-good-if-you-have decided on + striped florai windows, and I have just found seersucker, in pretty shades of orange, green blue with natural.
This would make up into pretty and practical curtains, because I washes so well and it does not need ironing.
.
Young Mrs. Morris has mistern inclinations_and" furnished her house to suit her tastes. But a favourite aunt gave her some Victorian furniture, and she didn't What want to offend the old lady. did she do?
If you want a contrast pelmet, make it of firm
She realised in time that -there-is-an-increasing fabric-Like-Hiren or repp so that it will le flat and keep its shape.
When making a pelmet at home it is usually fashion for Victorian furniture. She best to keep the shape simple and let the trimming didn't mix it with her own things
that would have been a fatal mistake. add the interest.
something She made a Victorian room. Sho For instance, a thonged pelmet new. This could be made in leather cloth but took of the old dark chair covers and would be just as effective in material, the thonging did them with fresh-looking cottoms, being done with a thick silk or cotton cord in a decorating them with white braid and
fringe She
the Victorian painted lighter colour.
gold, and hung The pelmet itself is straight, which simplifies overmantel white
dimity curtolas in the window and making-
Dormer windows are something of a problem, put a mulin flounce round because the sloping walls on either side already mahogany dressing table. All her exclude a certain amount of light. For these win-friends are copping her, and won't dows I suggest ninon or organdi curtales, with a believe she didn't get the idea from a frill all round, and a little shirred pelmet of the film of American high life. same material.
SHORT CUTS
aro
When hot applications needed for a patient Ill at home, use the potato rker for squeezing hot clatius. You will find that it SQUEEZES almost dry without burning the bands.
A large size sponge rubber knee pad to stand on will fake some of the
Make this on a sateen foundation: pale peach organdi over pale blue sateen or pale yellow over green would be pretty.
or
With these curtains you would have a blind for blacking-out pur-
in green poses, which could be blue, with a scalloped border.
Which reminds me that you will be wanting ideas for making other win
the
Mrs. Smith lives in modern fat, and for her birthday friends gave her (a) a re- production Elizabethan oak lamp and (b) a bowl of goldfish (but the gold- fish died). What did she do with them?
Gave the lamp away to a
A convenient jumble sale; you can't mix periods to that extent. (b) Emptied the water away, filled the bowl with coloured glass bubbles dows light proof. Dark and had it fitted up as a lamp with a blinds specially plain white parchment shade.
are
ncal, but an alter-
native is screens made of black sheeting,
which you can put up
device.
The Robinsons wont to lve in an old-world half- with a new press slud timbered cotinge. Mrs. H., who had
always had a hankering after film-set pretty rose-shot It is like a large furniture, chose a edition of the press taffeta for the sitting-room and peach on satin for the bedroom. Both look fasteners We LOW
Was frocks, but one half is nice against the cream walls.
la she wrong or right? nall which tacked into the wood-
on
IL
work. Sew the other
Completely wrong;
Aplicated fabrics just
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She
half to the sheeting, don't go in d simple cottage. which con thus be would have been amarter to have or considered gingham or printed linen, crisp cotton or furnishing tweeds.
quickly taken down.
put
up
strain out of standing when there is a large ironing to do.
When collars and cults of boys' aliteta becomo frayed cut these and down to semi-low necks short sleeves and use for saminer play shiria.
Add a allop of lesion to each glassful of ginger ale for a moother drink.
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on
"The Georges' dining-room is a bit of a problem, The table is in the middle of the room with the fire-place on one side, the window on another, the door on another and the sideboard the fourth
Result when they have people to dinner and the most im portant woman guest sits at Mr. G's right hand, to always site in howl- Ing draught. What did they do lo keep their popularity with their friends?
1
They bought an old- green in the local street market, stripped it and scrubbed it and then decorated it themselves by
with something that resembles att Plenty of dresses, for either day or the flounces and aprons take suggests Molbers who have difficulty get instinct for restraint, are very, very night, have decorative and very them.
ting children to eat fruit, ought to frivolous: aprons. These and many For a while, at least, one can contry serving fruit_as a part of the... chic...
deep flounces, too, ascend at back, centrate on the nimy, frothy type of meal more in salads or in fruit cups French dressmakers are proceeding giving the faintest bustio suggellon. dress, either in white, gray, black or for dessert. "QUICHT“ZTUTION="WINT et basistente Bardorybikelvezemetiziastricou ukito partala forderter Tavunma foshoponlinesudill
It's one of those revivals that is none thinking that bustles are back in any lovely things-lovaly ; in theraboives] BUAB i safety precaution, koep. too sure. To begin with, dat Esn't senso of the word. It's just that the und calculated to bring out loveliness poi Haridles turned -kway from exactly a summer trimming. So let's up-in-the-back line that so many of in all woman.
the front edge of the skyd
painting flott Couch AFERE red, and yellow. They pUL. door, so that it kept the draught offi And it looked very hice.
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