Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1930, Page 55

THE SUNDAY STAR,. WASHI Are Revived for Youthful Party Dresses LEFT: APPROPRIATE FOR EASTER DANCES IS THIS BLUE AND ROSE FLOWERED NET FROCK. THREE SCALLOPED FLOUNCES MAKE UP THE LONG, SKIRT AND THE HIGH WAISTLINE IS DE. FINED BY A ROSE SATIN SASH. THE SCALLOPED COLLAR FALLS INTO A CAPE AT THE BACK AND IS FINISHED WITH INGS OF ROSE SATIN. THE FROCK IS WORN OVER A BLUE SILK SLIP. RIGHT: THE SOPHISTICATION OF CHIFFON APPEALS TO THE YOUNG GIRL TRYING TO LOOK GROWN UP.. IN THIS FROCK, SHIRRED PANELS AT THE SIDES LEND FULLNESS TO THE SKIRT. TS SERVE AS CHIFFON ROSETTES, AND A RHINESTONE BUCKLE DRESSES UP THE NAR- CAPELE’ ROW FABRIC BELT. Even Daytime Clothes Are Picturésque, and Year Should Be One Providing Much Glamour in Styles—Printed Dresses Have Lingerie Touch at Hallmarks of the Neck and on 'Sleeves. 1930 Season—Newest Prints Have Dark Backgrounds—Materials in Dancing Frocks. BY HELEN DRYDEN. HE romance of fashion is again impressed on the young girl when she comes to select her daytime clothes. _ Even the simplest dresses of wool crepe and novelty knitted material have a certain glamour about them. It may be derived from picturesque capelets, which are now deep at the sides, rather than at the back as formerly. They may serve merely for decoration or to relieve the bareness of no sleeves, giv- ing, in either case, the broad shoulder lect, 80 smart today. And they may detachable. © The her & costume she may wear right now under her topcoat. And here the cape vies with the bolero. A bolero effect may be simulated by bands.on the hodice, and these bands may be re- peated on the skirt to give the effect of a yoke. > Another 1930 hallmark the - young girl is sure to discover on the printed dresses is the lingerie touch at the neck and on the sleeves. It may be just a frilled net or batiste collar, with more of the frills on the long or elbow length siceves, and a jabot failling gown t:: "x::\d of n“n c"’ii'.’t‘ or may be a -wrought plastron or guimpe with puffs of the same material in e sleves, Again the petallike collar of the print may be edged with & tiny pastel-tinted lingerie frill. 3 * ok k x THE patterns of the new prints, you ¢ will discover, are smaller, more eonservative, yet bright and alert in their colorings. The newest have dark backgrounds, navy blue, black, brown. or green with the design carried out in one color, and possibly another tone, of the background color, Lime green gfl"" may appear on dark green, light e on the navy blue, on brown, etc. These pagterns, Wl quite as novel as in other years, are often so small as to give an all-over effect. !&:nu in 1[:103,:& is nfl'mmlfln(h & strong appeal young T several years freedom ,has been their ng girl will also find capes on ted silk dress and ensemble— has come an entire It might be said to be regulated by the hemline. At any rate, by evening time it takes on a distinetly romantic aspect It's 50 natural and easy to be winsome and seemingly demure when beruffied Are & around your ankles sauey bodices. enquetijsh and sashes pleture & sim- m‘mlmlnmwhnm Tml are the dancing frocks which are fashioned of sheer cottons as well as silks. Nets, both plain and flowered: organdies, printed and em- broidered, batiste, handkerchief linen, dotted swiss, a stiffened chiffon, giving much the appearance of organdie, silk tulle and flowered chiffon in the mors conservative and old-time designs, al appear in these picturesque Tiers of | or circular flounces encirele or are ap- plied spirally to skirts which, even in the young girls’ dresses, may almost reach the floor. These always have the gveny hemline, EHES e wondrously lovely pastel color! of these trocks are evidence of Lhzfi nalvete—baby blue and baby pink Leing high lights. Many times the iwo tones are combined as ‘Watteau paintings, always with the addition of white. As if to throw these delicate colorings mto relief, just a touch of black may be added in the black velvet sash or bow. (Copyright, 1930.) Bowknots in They Are Employed in Varied and Decora- tive Manner—With Sashes for Party Frocks Offering One of Most Attractive Uses. | ROWS produce chic in an amazingly varied and decorative manner on |Spring clothes. No single detall of | meleon changes as the bow. It can be mannish trim for a panama hat. It can be done delicately in chiffon to be exquisitely feminine on the belt of a lace frock. It can be small and pert, huge and voluptuous, made of half-inch soutache braid or of 16-inch velvet. It's |an odd bow, indeed, thls year that can | find no use for itself on chic clothes. | The use of bows and sashes for party | trocks is one of the new uses and one of the prettiest. Some of these use gowns. ruffies, shirfed and pleated, | Pipings Are New Smart Trimming Pipings of contrasting material are used to trim some of the smartest of the new dresses, and this is a trimming that costs practically nothing and of- fers no unsurmountable difficulties to the home dressmaker. All that is re- quired is accuracy with patience. Pipings are used to outline yokes, cuffs, attached belts and applied panels. Usually they are of a tone darker than that of the dress. Brown plgml gives a smart touch to beige, dark gray to light gray, orange to yellow. rose to pink and sometimes a smart effect be gained by the use of a bright-colored piping on a dark or neutral toned dress. The important thing to remember 1s that the strips of material to be used in piping should be cut on a perfect bias and that they should be perfectly uni- form in width. To achieve this result the material should be perfectly smooth and flat and should be laid on a table or cutting board where it will remain perfectly flat. By means of a ruler and a perfect triangle measure cut from stiff cardboard, you may then mark the ma- | terial with’ a peneil where the strips should be cut. Another im| nt thing to remem- ber is that the bias strips should be folded exactly in the center. Here again there should be no guess work. There are various ways of applying the piping, dtgndsnt on the way in which it is to used, but a good gen- eral rule to follow is to apply the piping so that is is perfectly even and so that | decoration can be capable of such cha- | li it is fairly narrow. A wide piping gives & homemade appearance to any dress. Spring Styles always get them. The satin or velvet bow; posed at the back at high waist~ line, is the newest one. Hats make more use of bows in more varied form than they ever nave. The newest use of hat bows is in an original shape, called the modified Gainsbor- ough, which folds its wide brim up slightly from the crown on one side and g:-u & colorful ribbon against the little ndeau underneath. One of these, in a caramel stra: called “sunshine,” uses chartreuse ve! vet ribbon to make the big bow trim- ming under its wide brim. Lingerie embraces the fad for bow trimmings, and many a cobwebby en- semble. uses the bow for its {umrn of decoration. One such is a delicate pale blue chiffon and lace ce set. ittle brassie: Some Paris stoc! have bowknots in miniature at the top of their clox, For Parisians know how to make deli- cate use of a popular idea. Handker- chiefs, too, use the bowknot for chic this Spring. Jewelry takes the bowknot motif and| modifies it in a variety of ways to fash-| fon both daytime jewel evening things. One of t| rhinestones, crystal and xlr . It 1 |ions a conveniional bowknot design by Its elnfl and its ends, which hang pre- clsely like the ends of a ribbon bow call for ribbon bows, and practically | to NGTON, D. C, MARCH 2, 1930—PART THREE. o M = N \ N\ W AN D N W A N\ 2 N LEFT: THE CAPELET, SPLIT IN THE BACK, GIVES A YOUTHFUL AND FASHION-RIGHT LOOK TO THE HIP.LENGTH JACKET OF THIS BEIGE AND BROWN LIGHT. WEIGHT TWEED ENSEMBLE. THE JACKET, WITH CURVED FRONT! FLARE TO THE SKIRT. THE TUCK-IN BLOUSE IS OF BEIGE JERSE BEIGE, AND GREEN ALL-OVER PRINTED SILK, AND A L ONG BLACK WOOL CREPE COAT WITH DOUBLE CAPELET ON THE SLEEVES, THE INTS BACK TO FORM I;APEI,S. RIGHT: FOR SCHOOL AND OTHER DAYTIME OCCASIONS THERE IS THIS BROWN, BEIGE AND ORANGE T;RE%D ngé?gsggn‘gflk [ OF THE SKIRT SUPPLIES A SLIGHT FLARE AND THE PEPLUM REPEATS THE LINE OF THE TRIPLE COLLAR. FLAT CREPE IS USED FOR BELT, COLLAR AND .CUFES, When Boys Invade Homes Excessive Neatness Which Comes in Conflict With Nor- mal Play May Have Far-Reaching Effects on Family Condi- tions in Future. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. “YES, sir, I got the dandiest ball of “string you ever saw,” bragged “Hick” breathlessly, holding the front door open for his four cronies to stamp in from the front porch. He slammed the door shut and hos- pitably waved toward the stairs. ‘The herd thus urged, thundered promptly up, leaving its Styglan trail on each carefully waxed tread. Work that had started the lumbago all over again, and about which Hick's mother was now consulting her doctor down- wn. Hick slid into the first door to the left. The others. followed, “Thl‘: your room?” weh " ice, ain't it!” * hose your books?” eh! Darn it! I put that ball of string right here on my bureau. I spent two whole nights tyin' it up and winding it for a kite, and now I can't find it. And I had a lot of dandy strips fixed together, too, for a tail, an’ now the whole business is gone! Darn it! I'll bet Mom—-" “Mebbe it's in a drawer!” Hick didn't need this suggestion. He had one out on the floor already. Four pairs of grimy hands assisted in scoop- ing up carefully folded shirts, pajamas, underwear, handkerchiefs, stockings and dumping them back again. But the ball and tail strips were not there. A chance remark of Hick's, that it might be in the closet, brought further assistance. No precious ball there either. The boys were in a hurry. A merger formed since 4 o'clock with a gross capital of 16 cents had designs on a big kite in McSorley's drug store window. “I betcha it's in the kitchen!" sug- gested Jimmy Kunkle. “Ma keeps our string in the kitchen.” And all at once the herd found itself in the kitchen. And inevitably in the pantry. - From that it was a short step to more specific adventures, more im- mediately attractive and profitable than a green kite in a drug store window. Stomachs were empty, the larder was grelty full, and Hick was not a ost. ‘The herd grazed. Hick went to answer the telephone. When he returned to the kitchen the back door was wide open and his well filled guests had folded their tents and stolen away.; It was all right with him. He closed the door to an echo. The ftont door closing, too! His mother was home. Hick didn’t mind the whipping so much. It was his mother's hysterics that sunk him. Why she should have to go to bed and send for the doctor puzzled him beyond comprehension. Gee whiz! He'd brought fellows in before. And he'd been accused often enough of dragging in mud. And he'd mussed up his room. And he'd handed out plenty of free lunches, too. And his mother didn't realize that if she had let that sacred, grimy ball of string alone, and those long, puzzling slips of muslin, she would have saved two _sets of nerves from annihilation. ‘The chances are that Hick will never ask & boy back to his house. Instead, he’ll be more likely to do the visiting. The Young Girl Attains Chic 'OUNGrgirls are very lovely today. whether it is on the dance floor, ‘They are a great pleasure to watch, the beach or the tennis courts, with their tall slim bodies, their sleek heads, their grace and freedom of move- ment and that wonderful self-confidence that makes them a law unto themselves. ‘There are redsons for all this. since earliest childhood, which has developed hey have not had to become young ladies practically overnight. Pirst, they have had outdoor sports agility and ease. - Then, Time was when a young girl wore children’s clothes, then suddenly one day she put up her hair and put on long skirts. awkwardness was the result. In many cases great Now a gir] wears more or less the same clothes at 18 that she did at 15, but she wears them better. It has been a gradual change and de- velopment so that at 18 she is a much more finished product than che hi ined chic, she knows how to select her clothes and Young girls may are not Appropriate to can indul the shoulder cape, the tially for youth. amall puffs mwny indulge in man; oider woman. And t to their heart's content, for the normal waistli 'ed sleevec, the off-the-face frivolities of dress that is is a season when they ne, the bolero, hat are essen- DRYDEN. S CUT STRAIGHT ACROSS'T! BACK. When You Get At Your Spring Sewing e cotto goods th ‘o wet all cotton oroughly and dry and press before using in order to shrink them. Then there will be less shrinking after - the . goods made up. To buy your patterns before you buy your materials, and look them over carefully so that you will be sure to buy the right amounts, and so not waste expensive ‘material or run short of needed goods. ‘To soak cotfon goods that might run as to color in turpentine before wash- ing or in strong salt water. To dry all colored goods in the shade, not in the bright sunshine. ‘To make children’s clothes out of substantial material that will wear and so make the work you put into them worth whils. ‘To make childrén's everyday clothes out of material which will not only be durable, but which will not easily show be reminding them not to get their clothes solled. . To think twice before buying any- thing. Some women waste money each year in buying material they never make up. Buy only what you are sure you will make up into good, useful clothes. ‘To eat & sensible, nourishing and re- freshing lunch on sewing days and to get a little outdoor exercise each day that you spend sewing. Rugs Need No You Will Find Many Which Are Cheap and Attractive— Don’t Be Bound By Convention- When You Choose These Floor Coverings. the soil, so that you need not constantly | Banged Achieved by Means BY MARY MARSHALL. HE thrill of going into one's first long skirts is now a very real one to the girl of 15 or 16, but it was a thrill unknown to the girls of the post-war decade. year-old girl and that of her 20-year- old sister—or her 40-year-old mother, for that matter. Now all this has , and growing up from 8 to 18 will involve gradual lengthening of skirts—will unless the present fashion of longer skirts for women is blighted in the bud. Skirts above the knees are still the choice for little girls and fortunately are retained for the girl of 11 or 132, The girl 13 or 14 has an inch or so added to the hems.of her street clothes —while her play clothes or sports clothes remain comfortably short. The tall girl of 14 or 15 may have a some- t Be Expensive and rugs—but with this came the con- only expensive Oriental rugs would sat- isfy the requirements for good design and harmonious colorings. It is recently that most of us | have waked up to the fact that good | taste, good design and harmonious color- mhqo not depend at all on the price pald; very reasonable Tugs large small that satisfy the demands of the most exacting. By all means buy expensive rugs if BY BETSY CALLISTER. 'HE question of covering floors inex- | pensively and at the same time at- tractively is a problem, but a problem that is very much easier to solve than it was 15 or 30 years ago. ‘When our mothers went to housekeep- . ing they were faced with the necessity of buying carpets that would cover the floor, and were faced always with the expense of having to have the rugs cut | and fitted over again in case they moves from one house to another. The expen. | | sive all-over carpet was as much a ne- | ve X simply couldn't up appsarances if didn’t have R o “Then came the fashion for bare floors | rug Are necessarily beautiful m .fl"fl. Not having this notion regarding Inorrmln furnishi the: exercise their judgment and individua mhi'.ln selecing them and get good results. (Copyright, 1990 PRy Droitwich, nd. , THERE IS A WIDE BOX PLEAT GIVING A HT TER: SPRING.LIKE ENSEMBLE FOR THE YOUNG GIRL CONSISTING -OF X FRONT A DRESS OF BLACK Little Girls No Longer Look Like Miniature Copies of Mothers——Those of 15 or 16 Have Very Real Thrill of Going Into First Long Skirts——Flared Model Has Been Adapted to Children’s Clothes——Often of Wide Pleats. what until the the party dress, but it ;: tuc‘h::; 17 or ng 1 long evening skirt. * % ¥ % O at the outset there is & more ing difference. between juvenile ions : and those for girls women—and this di ce in lengths is a striking one, .& many of the. other it adult fashion have m.n those for little girls. " Walstiines been cases, but b R T T ely for children as the girl and grown woman. The belt placed Just below the normal waistline—at the top of the hips—Is, it seems to me, far maore to most little B i B af’ i skirt s ig! aistline, which, with most little girls of that age, ' K age, doesn't really s ts—achieved wide pleats, which are box fashion and vietion on the part of many women that | t! that some of the most expensive | been | Orlental rugs are o ¢ §§fiifif 3 if;ig, AT $370,000 to » e the brine baths in the eity, 58 L