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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE BETTY CLEMO

PARTY DRESSES TO SUIT YOUR PERSONALITY

By HAZEL MEYRICK

London, dressed up with string of wound round her Insoul-the dress that or a sustine TTS the success of the rhinestones

wrist, or a gilt chain belt to

looks like becoming the

Another calculatedly casual classic uniform for Christ-

choice for parties,” culled from mas party-going: the skin Horrockies cotton collection is tight black sheath with the the dress in Heavy while

cot- nockline, trimmed marcella pique ( WOVCI scoop

bod- under the bosom, Empire- too that grandma liked

used for sporfoolly style with the gigantic plan, su

full-skirtos dress cinched black bow.

the

(that

at the waist with a narrow gold kid bolt, plus matching kid sandals or toppet by a party stole of pink and white stripes, edged with coarse white cotton fringing.

This

You'll see dozens of these dresses around, mostly in black velvet, but what will make them different in the way their owners treat them. Like the girl, for instance, who wears her black under a duster coat of

For more format datelines heavy silver satin, or rose red poul!....

who there is the two-in-one Idea of ...Like

giri sparks it off with a monster a simple cont of coffee-coloured rhinestone clip on the shoulder, organza, belted in coffee leather or dramatises Il with a deep worn over a strapless drase

white sunened poult, with wh green mohair stole, lined

way, incidentally; of clashing green satin..Like a good

last year's parky the girl who wears her dress making-over

If you've a lace phơ plain, her hair-style slicic--but dress.

that needs livening up, top it focusses attention on her pretty feet by pinning diamante car-

a redingoio car with

of matching tulle, caught in at the clips onto her black suede party coaISE

Like the woman who waist with a satin cummerbund, pumps...

that old black-velvet- knows

Look out for the return of

Jittle puit sleeve to the plus-pearls trick never falls the

It's confined, at and Alls in the neckline with party seene.

the

to moment,

cut widely a the roper of pearls she can lay her hands on. Those are theatre coats, or used to give a

silk shirt-waist the

binck pure

dress a people whose little

new look, but Dlor showed it in Ali in the neckline of my best dresses will mean nothing at Christmas parties.

collection, black suit

*

his

ready-to-wear

A new-length cocktail dress in fine jersey, draped 'My

Fair Lady' style, by Susan Small.

and it's catching on like wild If you must give me some- fre. You may see puff sleeves thing useful, I wouldn't say no The woman who wants to be around this Christmas, worn by to a really generous number of remembered

who like to be frat Christmas, the few Vals

one of the

new

Dear Father, Christmas, This year I do NOT want... useful and acceptable gifts: s'

duster is still a dustér, even if it la coulu dressed

as a doll, with sickly smile and for dish-cloth skirt.

Small, 'good' pieces of jeuxiery, which might help, if

plain while handlerchiefs...a year's supply of fate thasues...

a toothbrush for sach day of the week, or a huge bor of sewing needles in all sizes.

Care For Sparkling

Table Linens

By ELEANOR ROSS

the

will chouse for party-going, with the news, sleeves cut like sem-long Christmas crackers, stiffened by dresses. To wear one of these crackle nylon interlinings, to dipped, ncar - ankle

length dramatise a perfectly plain party choulons needs, above all things, dress and make it look different a perfect figure, perfect polse from the next one. and a good dose of courage. If she can carry it off, she'll look more than up-to-the-minuto, ali the other

women in the room will hate her and feel dowdy and out of date.

Variations of the draped cocktail dress aro alreatly around. Ther's one, instance, In

gunmetal

Bylon chiffon, sold complete with a

TOW is the time to plan linens in After loundering, токо pink stolo. Another 1 patronised the pawnbroker, but NOW

thoroughly untl has brought out a do nothing for my appearance. your table decorations rinse of little chiffon party So throw away

that pin-sized for the big feast, and other odour of the bleach is gone. dresses, topped by brocado coats diamond, give” me instead an holiday parties ---- occasions

It is best to tackle candle which are lined in matching enormous dress ring, a fake stone that require a nice degree wax

stains promptly. before chiffon ruched like a theatre in a fake setting that looks of formality.

the linens go into the suds, For curtain

audacious it might be real,

both white and coloured For the woman who likes an

„Box-loads of cosmetics in

Critical eyes will be cast on fabrics, scrape off CXÇÜSS WAX casy, understated way of dress the wrong shade: If you don't the best table linen, whether with a dull knife blade or stiff ing that makes

everyone else know my colouring by now, I'd the table

First, covering is rich cardboard. fect as over-decorated 35 rather have a gift token.

domask, beautiful face, or a stains with ice, if you like, to Christmas tree, there is, for in- Those pretty, fussy little fragile openwork spread.

makt removal caster.

Then formal cocktail parties, a scarves that would half-stranple

warm Iron to simply-cut

press Laundering table dress in

me if

Linens Is Iited them round my really on art, but not a difficult stained

orea belween elchri white tweed, with a full throat. I'd rather have half a

blotters to learn.

or towelling, tiffened skirt which

ond word of snow-white orgondie to the secret can

To begin with white of keeping white before washing, cottons and linens dazzling white le to use plenty of hot water and a second washing in fresh soupends botore rinsing. Most tablecloths can be

washed

ת

snow-

bye

•

Vrederick Stajke's short, evening dress in

1 by s lined' brocade trench coal by

Jewel-studded Dog Collars

to do

mately by machine, providing they're ont toused in with a lot | of dirty laundry,

Wash linen cloths separately, since they have a tendency to pick up good dent of int ir mixed in with cottons. Delicole organdles are best washed by hand, the Buds gently squeezed through the foe fabrics. So are |lage and openwork cloths,

some of the sturdier varimties cant be

through put

the machine if you tuck them inside a mesh bag, so fragile strands won't mag and break In contact with other laundry itema

Another ounce of protection laundering mall items such dollies in a hand washer

a capped jar full of soapsude In which delicate pieces can be thoroughly choken until all the Boil Boats out, with no wear and tear, on the threads..

If white cloths seem less snowy white, linn they should

because of In use you might the top iden

troplex. from women in

have

Their ownbleaching method willing and wooping linens and hanging than in the ain to try. Then when dry the cloths are soap and-water laundered again

the usual manner.

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