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FOR AFTERNOON, AND FOR LARGE FIGURES

Daytime Dress On Shirtwaist Lines

This graceful dress has just the This is an unusually good ver- sion of the everyday dress, for home softness, the touch of formality,

or office wear, made on traditional that you want for bridge parties, shirtwaist lines, yet with

a dif- ference. The sleeves of this de- luncheons and blub meetings. The sign are peaked up with the popu- straight, smooth-hipped skirt, the lar Victorian effect; gathers be- neath the shoulder yoke and just plain shoulders and v-neckline are above the belt make it soft and be- coming. The skirt has a trifle of designed to take inches off the large

flare, figure. The design shows a parti- Make up a dress like

this in challis or jersey for general run- cularly gracious and dignified' ver- about; and one (or several!) in sion of the smart bodice detailing sturdy cotton like percale, gingham or calico, with ricrac braid, for with draped revers in self or con-house wear. It's a good design to trasting fabric. The slashed type try your hand on, if you haven't done much sewing, because it's so easy.

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of bishop sleeve is extremely new, and more becoming to large women than the fuller kind.

In sheer velvet, crepe-satin, sill GIRL'S

crepe or wool broadcloth, this dress

will be one of the most successful FROCK

you ever wore.

SUSPENDER IN DIRNDL STYLE

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ITO GLAZE CHINTZ AT HOME

Though the shiny surface pro- duced by glazing does not provide much grip for dust and dirt, the fabric finally requires washing, and misgivings are often felt as to the effect on the highly polished finish. This polish is part of the finishing

process and will be removed during

washing. It can be restored suc- cessfully, if not quite to the ori- ginal condition of lustre.

are

The following instructions easy to follow. Prepare a bowl of full strength starch-made ́accord- ing to directions on the packet--- · and add to it one teaspoonful Lux jelly for each pint of starch.

After washing and rinsing the chintz, using lukewarm suds, im- merse it in this starch and allow it to try. Then damp it down, ròil up till it is evenly damp; and then iron on right side with heavy hot iron.

The next process is the polish- ing. Have ready a polishing board, or uncovered table, and two or more hot polishing irons. These are smaller and lighter than ordin- ary domestic irons and have a -rounded instead of a flat sole. Damp down a small piece of the starched, ironed chintz and place on the board. Polish with the heel of the iron, using short, sharp strokes. Then proceed in the same way till the article is completed.

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A Selection of Models from the latest

Twilfit

Range

The latest Twilfit models can now be seen and fitted at the leading stores in Hong Kong. All over the world women.

know that TWILFIT is designed to make every figure shapely · and well-proportioned. It's 'good form' to wear TWILFIT,

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skirts, high necklines and puffed There's nothing as becoming to sleeves. Besides having all these, girls of school age as the suspen- this design has a nice, shirred der dress except the dirndl! dirndl waistline, with a bit of frill || Here's a smart new design that combines these two winning fash-

above.

For school, make the suspender ions. What your daughter will like of challis, jersey or flannel, with | best about it is that it's so becom- blouse of linen, lawn or flat crepe. ing. Girls who are growing up fas- For dress-up choose velveteen or ter than out look their best in full taffeta for the suspender, georgette or organdy for the blouse.

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