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Show Simplicity Wartime Fashions A Boon to Home' Dressmakers OUR COMIC SECTION By CHERIE NICHOLAS l, fggiK! A WONDERFUL boon to home dressmakers is the simplicity which characterizes wartime fashions. With accent placed on fabric interest rather than on involved draping and gingerbread trimming, and with so many lovely rayon fabrics available within every budget, the girl who makes her own has a golden opportunity this season. For utility frocks that look trim and correct for morning wear, for taking junior to school or for trips to the market, she may choose from any number of lightweight practical rayon fabrics that are as easy to tailor as they are pretty to see. A jersies and cool sheers. Printed, plain or checked versions are equally popular for going-everywhe- frocks. re or Dark-tone- d colorfully J printed sheers and crepes are excellent choices for the new for summer town wear and the offer to this type background ideal for fresh Especially adaptable of frock are the smart spun rayon white lingerie touches such as coconstructions that are so popular for llars and cuffs or dickeys of fine fashionable sportswear. These in- rayon marquisettes or clude fine linen-lik- e weaves, hop- spun rayon. Coat-drestyling is stressed sacking, sturdy homespun and basket weaves, shantungs and light- throughout costume design for Very smart is the weight gabardines. In bright or pasd version of the printel solid colors and prints as well as in this seasons new checks and ted shirtwaist frock in fine rayon stripes, they are charming and fresh sheer shown to the left in the illumade up in tailored shirtwaist stration. A striped floral patterning frocks, in shirt and skirt teams or in white is fresh and cool on a dark in any of the many versions of gay green background in this attractive peasant styles. For commuting and style which has little white composition buttons and narrow white belt vereveryday town wear, dark-tone- d sions of the same practical fabrics as simple trimming. d A very feminine version of the make smart little e k for summer is costumes or frocks that will look cool and centered in the group. This attractive dress which can so easily be trim whatever the temperature. uses For the made the frock daytime a with that goes smartly to business or fine rayon sheer takes you nicely from committee smart white and green print pat meeting to luncheon and on through teming. The double ruffles at thea interpret the days busy round of activities turned-bac- k there is a wide variety of luxurious definitely new 1943 summer styling. length sleeves rayon fabrics such as Cuffed three-quartsupple crepes, fine shantungs, sleek and dressy white buttons at the jacket front make it adaptable for wear. Mantilla to and to tailor is the Easy drape Matching s, linen-typ- e ss sum-me- full-lengt- r. h front-buttone- short-sleeve- jacket-and-ski- rt one-pie- ce suit-froc- two-piec- home-dressmak- er rose-color- ed good-tailori- er smooth one-pie- AJAW-r- rs polka-dotte- d gray-nd-whi- te rayon crepe chosen for the flatteringto daytime frock shown the right. Styled on simple, softly tailored lines with dainty ling?1' touches for added flattery, it is right for town and country all through the eu vs like you who ce season. After you have succeeded in makas ing several pretty frocks suchamhere shown if you should grow bitious to make a smart afternoon tissuit see the new handsome rayon are women d sue failles. lines wearing simple suits in suave aidea done in navy or black faille and abetted with masses f. snS sheer frills. A lovely innovation this season is the use of rayon crepes, sheers and tissu for furloug failles in soft an Pastel weddings. greens, blues,thes for pinks are first choices adaptable frocks that will com11 to be important members of tn brides wardrobe when the cer mony is over. CATCH COLDS AND GET SICK YOU HAVE TOO MUCH FAITH IM THAT BALL OF FIRE. IM ONLY GOING TO BE OUT A .HALF HOUR OR I'D WEAR MY RAIM COAT Best-dresse- b light-color- e suit-froc- NOTHING WORSE Pig English A clergyman in a railway compartment had for company a group of workmen whose language was hardly of the kind that a reverend gentleman is supposed to hear. One of them must have realized this, for, turning to the clergyman, he said: You must excuse us, guvnor, but yer knows were just plain speakin guys as always calls a spade a Sergeant Youve been training spade. for six weeks now, and what have Is that so? said the clergyman, you learned? I should have thought that would Recruit Why soldiers arent have been the last thing you would afraid to die, Sarge. have called it. EXCEPTION TO RULE --A. Released by Western Newspaper Because of the ingenuity and resourcefulness with which designers are dramatizing the ensemble idea the summer style picture is staging just one thrill after another in way of matching this with that. The newest sensation is the dress that has Pretty House Un Dresses have Many women who never n nW are done their own housework forced, for the lack of help to do for the first time in their lives accounts for the present unpre. Then there was the or self-lac-e man-tdl- a. man its own house fr dented call for who claimed nothing could be done Pietured is an exquisite new If she is a youngpretty the n housewife street-lengt- h dress-uin von life p unless one star successfully frock of a types will be her ed at the bottom. He hasnt been print which patterns a black lace pinafore You the most adorable sty heard from since someone asked motif on a pale green rayon crepe, somecanallget afflutter with exciting with a matching mantilla. him if hed ever learned to swim ruffles. self-ma- de self-fabr- ic , ! |