1938-05-26 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1938.

Shoes item

more than any other and pocket flaps before they curl. pay for personal service. If this is done regularly the canvas Well-kept shoes are the hall-mark interlining will stay crisply in of that elusive quality "finish."

Keep them on trees. Store them on racks where air can circulate round the soles, Wearing shoes in rotation is sound economy.

Choose a cream or polish which "feeds" the leather and keeps it pliable. This is important if shoes are to be long-lived.

Leather develops "dry rot" if it is not regularly dressed with polish of good quality.

place.

Rest loosely woven materials like tweed and hopsuck at regular in- tervals. Insist on a taffeta panel· under the back width of a skirt which is going to spend a lot of its life sitting down.

Loose belts, sashes and scaryes should be pressed and stored in flat boxes or transparent envelopes,

The secret of prosperous looking

Once a month to the cleaners is shoes is good polish applied with a good rule for the clothes that clean rags and well rubbed into the won't tub. leather. Brushing polish over dirt and stains "fixes" the stains per- manently,

Leather is a skin, and skin needs cosmetics.

If there are serious stains on any garment to be cleaned give special instructions about them.

Odd skirts and all jerseys and shirts launder well.

All self-respecting stockings are daily dippers. Lingerie lasts longer if it goes tubwards at least four times a month.

The navy blue and white linen frock has white pique', bands, in bow form, at the neck and also in pockets at hip length.

Get enough hangers to

accom-

FISH IN POTATOES

modate all your coats and dresses: FISH

Keep skirts on the clip hangers specially made for them and not crookedly stretched on the coat variety.

Take one large potato for each person, and bake it in the oven, still in its jacket. When done, "take out, cut a slice off the top longways, Copy the shops and use trans-and scoop out the inside of the parent paper shoulder guards-on potato. delicately coloured frocks. Dust- Mix this with a little, milk and ̧ proof bags will keep "best" clothes butter, season, and keep it, hot. immaculate and ready to wear at a Then flake up some cooked white moment's notice.

fish, mix it with a little cheese sauce, and if possible a handful of picked shrimps.

Be your own valet.

Get the right tools to service your hats and your shoes. You'll soon be buying more hats and shoes

Put the fish into the potatoes, cover the tops with a spoonful of the mashed potato, brush

Modern shoe creams are blended like face creams. Some of them specially designed for fine leathers look like face cream.

Set aside half an hour each week Patent leather is best served by to check up on buttons, hems and a white cream polish, rich in oil.

seams... the "stitch in time" still with the money you save. It's chic beaten egg, and put in the oven Keep patent leather in a warm

holds.

till brown. place.

Clean all new shoes before wear- ing and do use a shoe horn.

Suede needs special service. Rub- ber is better than wire for a brush. Sandpaper.lightly rubbed will re- move shine when a brush fails.

Every suede colour can be match- ed with a cleaner. Good makes

Hats

Silvain

Bonnet, Boater and a buttonhole- to match. The Glengarry has a matching cravat.

are supplied with a wire-handled

brush which spreads evenly.

the cleaner

Clean leather welts and heels of suede shoes before the uppers.

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Personal serivce to a suit or frock means pressing and "sponging at feast twice a week.

That skirt you admire so much on the bandbox Miss X probably goes to the ironing board after every wearing.

A really damp cloth under a hot iron will shrink "qeatiness" back to original streamlines. Press lapels

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