Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 45

Effects Produced s » e With Organdie, ™™ DottedSwiss, I Mous- seline, Point d’Esprit, Cotton Net and Seen in Flower and Geometric - Designs. Simpligity ' and So- phistication Com- bined. BY l'lln DRYDEN. HERE . never has been a season tremendously Do you remember in your childhood—or if you are very younr, Te- member hearing your mother talk of | wearing—organdie, dotted swiss, mousse- ,li::. gcmt desprit, cotton net and grass n ‘The current version of many of these Sabrics is much the same, except for | the-new colors, of course. But to some of them, netably cotton net, new and darirg things have been done, such as | printing flower and geometric designs on net, in subtly blended color combi- nations. lie also boasts some new designs in large or small flower prints that are altogether charming; nets are embroidered in all-over design with great success. A frock of this fabric is made with a quaint sophistication that is well adapt- ed to the modes and manners of today, especially for the young girl. Another frock for a young girl is one of cotton net printed in small design and | trimmed with pleated ruffies of a plain- | color net. The beauty of such a frock is that in light colors it is the perfect | thing in a country setting, and in dark colors it is equally perfect for daytime town wear. * x % % Tfl! organdy frocks that are being made for mid-Summer are attrac- tive beyond description. In the design- ing of them has been combined, with the most consistent result, those two seemingly inconsistent qualities — sim- plicity and sophistication. It takes a good designer to make this combination successful, but if you make your own clothes there are attractive paper pat- terns that are meant especially for dresses of this type. Choose carefully. Don't have the dress too ingenue or too sophisticated, just a happy blending of the two qualities, and you lighted with the result. Have you thought of the possibilities will be de-| A solid color organdy in one of the new shades .is given interest and charm by being made over a slip of taffeta. The color in the print is repeated in collar - binding of . wrain full: is sheer emough to show the the sl eath, the belt and ribbon. The ip ben touches of white net. correct for innumerable Ex s IT isn't enly for dresses that cotton -8 used this year; it extends into almost every department of the femi- wardrobe. For instance, there are course, you've seen the ocot- suits with accompanying ch pajamas, parasols and than which nothing -nwra.. ng or appropriate can As a matter of fact, this ['tabric is particularly well suited to our active Summer life. Just _the right note in trimming has been chosen for this Summer’s cottons. ue pipings or bandings, pleated net in_contrasting or matching col- ors, tiny pleated edgings of taffeta, bands and bows of velvet or grosgrain ribbon tive. Especially in the organdies, the new colors are delightful. Tones such as opaline pink, that clear yet misty shade; melon green, a yellowy shade with a hint of sea water; peachskin, which has an apricot hue; Sorrento blue, a lovely deep-water tone, and Riviera beige, in which one can see a slight rinky-mluve cast. Perhaps we have such lovely colors before, but they seem especially attractive this year (Copyrisht. 1930.) :|—all are thoroughly eonsistent and decora Theatrical Gauze May Be Used for Spread, and. Cretonne Also Is Effective — Win- dow Curtains Which Are Made to Match Coverings. BY BETSY CALLISTER. of the equipment of many houses. They serve two purposes—they look Summery, and they save the more ex- pensive, heavier Winter spreads. ‘To my mind, the Summer bed should always first be above d, possibly, | sheets and |fresh and white. Over ond |to the | other furnishings of the room. A cretonne is a good choice room. If there | spread | for the Summer bed are cretonne hanging course, match them. are plain, then the cretonne for the of dotted swiss for Summer frocks? It B ht well worth investigating. Here is & very moderate in price that can be y,muu-mrucm ot ‘wear. Imagine a dress SR SRR v with piuk— spread may be chosen just to suit the eye and the general color scheme of the room. A spread with a wide valance to the s along the | BEDSPREADS for Summer are a part th THE SUNDAY large-flower patterned bi -4 gros- fabrie. flounce on skeirs slander lines of Hang Clothes With Neatness and Care Do you hgve difficulty in keeping your frocks and blouses hanging on their hangers? m‘:"nen:nnah @t‘:nve their troub‘l]ck. especially n, L blouses' and frocks—and dr%rit our frocks and blouses nowadays are of silk. The large openings at the neck allow the garments to slip over and off from one epd of the glnm and then it is only a mlfihr‘:la time when ir hAnJ:u are covered . with some it makes them less slippery. covered with velveteen are they are admirable for keep- things placed on them from lllg:l.n.. ‘They are worth trying. some of the stores where women'’s frocks are sold the simple device of stickis little adhesive tape part of the way along the hanger keeps the frocks and blouses from slipping off. The shoulder of the frock. ot blouse is not, of course, touched by thegadhesive side of the tape, but is simply kept from slipping by the little ridge of tape. In most houses, guests for an evening or afternoon have to dispose of their wraps by laying them on a bed in the room assigned to guests. Often wraps are sadly wrinkled in this way. there is a growing feeling that this is not & good arrangement. People even in moderate circumstances are provid- ing their houses with ample sized coat closets. In one this coat closet has taken on the proportions of a | dressing room-—with a rod and hangers at one end where the wraps of guests | may be disposed of in a considerate Tashion, Hangers sold, and the Summer Finery for Beds |ored cotton matching the figure of the | eretonne in color. It is made to go flat up to the head of the bed, under the hiows, and & separate pillow cover, consisting of a band of the materiai wider than the pillows and long enough to hang over the sides of the bed, is made. Another spread most dainty and at- tractive for the Bummer bed room is made of theatrical gauze. This is ver cheap—25 cents a yard, perhaps. s in all the lovely light pastel colors blues and pinks, yellows, greens and lavenders, so it may be chosen to fit into any color scheme. ‘The spread is made with a wide ruffied valance, wide heading and goes straight up over e pillows. It must, of course, ha tains of chosen for the room 1t 1s used. Candlewick frames were an effort of our foremothers to meet, the problem of tical and at the -an '-lhlll‘: bel'u';l- bedspreads. Made of white cotton, tied with white wick, they are certainly practical. It is too much work for most of us to make these 'ads, nowadays. But we can buy them in sizes and styles mfltmi’bfidmdbfldnflm;lfld!e’y are certainly a good choice for the room furnished in Colonial style. They are, of course, suitable also for Winter wear —but then so are the spreads of cre- tonne and theatrical gauze. Unbleached muslin makes good Sum- mer bedspreads for the simply fur- nished cottage. They may be boun with bands of along and unbleached musiin & 4 mmmfi*fi may be ‘window t on with an inchs | STAR, The essence of youthful charm is embodied in this frock of flowered organdy. The print in pastel colors is small, which is entirely consistent with the crisp sheerness of the Pink velvet bands and bows are the sole trimming and the skirt retains its slen- derness in spite of the fullness gathered on @ khip yoke at a low line. 2 Organdie MOONUGHT and rose gardens in our minds with oggan: there is nothing to take its place. and feminine when wearing it. The girls just growing up have hardly known fts existence. not go- with the boyish bob or scant knee-length skirts, and billowing means a goodly quantity of material. those who are for the first time wearing this fragile tissue. For both dance dresses and the late after- young girls have taken it up! noon, one sees it everywhere. ‘We all know that fashions, like customs, go in cycles—they are bound to return, yet, who would have said 10 years ago, with our post-war sophis- tication, that the small girls of that time, as they grew to 17 and 18, their mothers wore at the same age. long, full, dance dress of organdie seemed much would be wearing just whi Tate we were then, more than & le in the future. No, we just can't down an instinct—it is here again, for a long while. Tattle-Tale at the Table Discordant Family Should Be Avoided by Suppres-| sion of the Cause of 111-Will — Duties of Parties the Parents. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. BIGAIL-LUCRECE (Abigail back her liver and bacon and made face. “Why can't we have pork chops? hate this stuff.” “It's good for you, kid,” sald Dick, reaching for the salt ! You're a fine one to talk. her Oh, you! If I told what I knew about you!" “Wh he been doing now?” anted to know. . L.” as her father had shortened itself to “Al’ floor as she wanted—the tabl for Hester-Anna was mak ignals for her to be quiet was_squirming guiltily in his chair. “We—ull,” gloated the irrespressible baby of the family, “he was shooting of firecrackers out behind the garage | And after you'd told him not to, too. That's one thing. The in the alley. other was that——" “Hold on there, Allle, one thing at time.” ha and so close to the Dick, you it to be ashamed obey your father.” “Oh, it wasn't his fault,” spoke Hester-Anna loyally. “I know t and—" erece. “You were in it, too.: I saw “I just lighted one for a Wi that's all. ides I saw you, knew you'd tell. Dick ecatch it alone, Miss Perfect.” * “That’s enough, children, aboul . I disting the nd t this. ‘was dangerous to garage on 'And you kmow that ol- LR WASHINGTON, ettiness and femininity—it is too strong nk goodness, and let us hope it is here from | her grandmother and Lucrece from the statue on the hall mantel) pushed laces. dis- uj W *bout “You needn’t talk,” said Abigail-Lu- I wasn't going to let Dick, I'm told Sketches @t right— Another cotton net dress boasts a new idea in the printed design in medium size pat- tern. This type of fab- ric is cool to a degree and equally smart in dark or light colors, making it suitable for town or country. The deep cape flounce of pleated plain net in a color that repeats one of the shades in the flower pattern. Voile embroidered in a flower motif is used for this frock. The embroidery can be in self-tone—one of the many lovely colors of this season—or in a contrasting shade. One of the new trimming details, finely pleated solid-color net, is used to edge the cape, tie and hem of the skirt, giving a cool, airy touch. and Youth bordered with boxwood are assoclated ‘What a delightful material it is— Youth just must be youth, and pretty - 1t did It has to billow, One rather envies And how the At the HELEN DRYDEN. ber of the citizens' committee I've been | having signs posted about firecrackers | before the Fourth.™ » "™ sputtered Dick, “that's why 1 out there, so the neighbors wouldn't see me and talk about your having a bad boy that wouldn't do what you're preach—— I mean, take your advice.” “Where did you get them?” “I'll bet he took a dime out of the | change from—" “That's enough!” shouted her father. “Hold your tongue!” “Oh, John! She's only a baby. Don't yell s0. Honestly, if the family is going to make a battleground of this table every time we sit down, I'm going to in_the kitchen. We both 't Baby?" But “Baby” was not to be diverted. | “Well, anyway, that isn't all he did.| He went up the creek with those Jones | boys after school, and went swimming. I know because I saw him leave them at the corner and his shirt's all wet. And that ain't—isn’t all. He—" “Well, son, I'll speak to you later. Marie, that gas stock’s coming back. I think now we can—" “Dick, i your shirt wet now? After 1 stand up and iron, and iron, and iron, that’s all you care whether I drop in ¢ | my tracks or not. That shirt would have done you tomorrow.” “You'll catch cold, son. it off right away.” “It's dry now, dad. Gee, this is good liver. mother!” “Abigall-Lucrece, I think you are a nasty little pig," said her sister. “You‘re Alwlfi! telling everything.” “Oh, if I told what I know about you!" crowed the Terror, racking her brains for another sensation to restore her_threatened crown. “What?” W Mother got up and went toward the klnt:ben. & u;au two lcnp: off the plly:' and carry them out, and then you them, Hester-Anna.” “Here's Allie—Al; she's got two ntron= legs and arms. Can't she help?” sai father. “You run out and play, Abigail-Lu- crece,” mother sniffed. *“You have one friend in the family at least, and that's mother.™ As his father went out to corral the s 1 Better take 1 d” whispered back, “I do. thilnk_you're perfect.” Dick | with the ability to make clothes—and D. C, JUNE 22, 1930—PART THREE. Worth-While Skill In Art of Sewing Many continental women are still taught that to be able to do exquisite “plain wewing” 15 one of the accom- plishments of a lady. In the convent schools girls are sifll taught to sew with meticulous care. Not to be able to take even, dainty stitches indicates to them a lack of education. In this country, of course, a girl can easily contrive to get through school with colors flying without ever having had a needle in her fingers, though the chances are that somewhere along the line she has had an opportunity to learn something of sewing in school. Usually an American girl would be more eager to learn how to make her own hats or her own frocks than to learn fine sewing. The ability to do fine sewing is still an accomplishment quite as worth while as knitting or stenciling or tatting, and there is pretty good reason to believe that as the seasons roll around there will be a greater and greater admiration for exquisite hand sewing. ‘This has nothing whatever to do usually the girl who has a knack for dressmaking is an indifferent needle- woman. Some of us who have learned sewing in childhood seem to have an idea that the whole thing depends on taking very little stiches. We remember being told by the sewing teacher to take stitches so small that they could not be seen, and we sewed with miraculously fine needles and thread that was hardly courser than a strand of spider webbing. But this is not the really important matter. The ability to take perfectly regular and perfectly even stitches is what really ,makes all the difference, and sometimes stitches may be so small | that they do not hold the material | \ ‘\/',,,, ‘m Navy Blue and Black Held by Beige in 13 ‘o_ttons Are Favored in Summer Revival of Old-Time Fabrics Take Place Formerly General Color Scheme: Pastel Shades, Yellow, Faded Pink and Black With Dark Blue Are Smart. Nothing Somber Is Indicated—There Is Less Striving After Unusual Tones and Combinations. BY MARY MARSHALL. VERY season has its own particu- lar formula for smartness, and in no two succeeding years uld new clothes, hats, wraps and accessories be judged by precisely the same footrule of taste. Clothes that you or I would have thought high- ly desirable last Summer would strike | us as inadequate if not positively absurb this season, standards of smartness that have come about in 12 months. ‘Take color, for instance. There has been no launching of new and striking colors, there is no one combination of colors that is recognized as supremely smart, but there have, none-the-less, been very real changes. One cannot overlook the increased importance of navy blue and black. For street wear these tones have been crowding closely on the beige tones that had things a little too much their own way for several years. 2 Even warmer weather will not drive black and dark blue from the picture. Many of the smartest, figur- ed-silk dresses show light figures on a together properly. black or navy blue background, often worn with a jacket of the solid dark What to Do With Cufflines Season Produces More Ways to Treat Wrist Than Ever Before Have Been Devel- oped —Evening Gowns — Old-Fash- i ioned Fad Revived. 'HERE is chie in the turn of a wrist this Summer. ‘What to do and not do about one’s cuffline is the essence of smartness. For there are more ways of treating the wrist to elaboration than ever before. Simplest of all is the blouse bracelet jdea, which uses a novelty modern bracelet in prystal and onyx or in some enameled to match up with the colors and designs used in one’s blouse. Have. your sleeves short or have your blouse sleeveless and add a blouse brace- let over your glave or on r bare wrist and you are set for da ‘wear and sports, . For afternoon, the newest touch is the floral tribute you place at the cuffline only fair , 1t is Tou whers migs les i S B 20 of your chiffon sleeves. For this you use orchids as first choice, but any other flowers that are not too stiff are Among these you can count’roses, little garlands of trailing arbutus, flags, lilie apple blossoms. Have your flowérs made of some soft material, perhaps chiffon with velvet centers, and fasten them over the hand, under the cuff. They are most effective with very sheer frocks, chiffon, net, organdie. They are effective if your frack is short- sleeved, provided you make ruff cuffs of the material and ‘use the flowers Judiciously to decorate them.— Then there is the fancy cuff solution to this wrist-chic problem. Some of the newest sleeves end at three-quarters, and crisp organdie puffs gathered into tight cuffs are pretty as can be. Or, for wear with some of the little silk suits, many a girl has cuffs made that slip around her wrists, when the gilet has no sleeves whatsoever. They are chic looking, showing under the silk coat sleeve. They are fresh and summery. For the evening gown, bracelets ti use the same jewels, but do not match in dsign, are the latest fad. If you want & combinat| of jewels, emeralds, rubles and diamonds are still exceedingly good. Pearls, set in rhinestones, are excellent, es) ly when you use one bracelet of this kind and a crystal bracelet with 1t. The old-fashioned . fad .for. wear! grosgrain ribbon tied around ome's necl d wrists is buek st a volle figu blue and pink and white. a little or velvet bow of blalik around ‘wrists. see much all because of changed | d word col‘z!l‘u drom Paris that color, the newest note dresses is struck rather sparingly with color, turquoise blue and dull pink. » W ¥ BLACK plays an fmportant role in { beach fashions. White shirts are worn with black linen shorts or long wide pajama trousers in solid black. ‘This should not be taken to indicate | that there is anything dark or somber |in the season’s color-scheme but that to a certain extent black takes the place | of beige, and the various lighter neutral tones, grege, sand, putty, etc. So far as lighler, brighter colors go, there is less striving after unusual tones and distrurbing ' combinations. In the figured silks for afternoon and evening there are the traditional combinations | of pastel tones that are almost always becoming. Green is the smartest when combined with black or white—a white evening dress worn with jade, a dinner gown of white chiffén with large figures in two shades of green or a day dress showing small white figures on a linden green background, or black background with small graen figures. | * ok ok % A BRIGHTER than navy blue makes its appearance for warmer weather. It is this color that forms band or em= blem on the sleeve, a belt or pipings on otherwise all-white bathing suits” and beach costumes. In Paris navy blue chiffon has been used for a number of distinctly smart. evening dresses. ‘Ture quoise blue, either alone or in combis nation with black, carries the cachet of smartness. Yellow is decidedly good with white | for resort wear, and an all-yellow flan- nel sports sult'worn with white blouse is a good selection, The dusty tones of pink continue te be among the smartest allies of bia |or dark blue. Light pastel pink or plque is used for jacket suits sports dresses, and among the sma: of youthful evening dresses are those white organdy or net trimmed with pink. White batiste embroidered in pink also has taken honors. (Copyright, 1930.) For More Air ‘The new perforated felt hats provide acceptable ventilation on a warm day. That is one object of the perf t | the other being, of course, that they provide a clever design on the hat. ay of carrying out & ‘Then there are punch-work shoes | that are ever so much cooler than those of unperforated leather and s are decidedly smart for vacation. Tresort wear. = Punchwork appears also oh” some of- ‘the new handbags, and eyelet embroid- ery, so much used at the' time, s just example of* same sort of decorative device. ] RGNS R MPRE Nearly | | -3300,000 worth of i Wmmmhm;