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Show Woman's World Give Summer Clothes Fresh Touches With Simple Tricks By Ertta Haley Tricorne Hat . ' . ' V i A smoothly rounded tricorne of smooth navy straw is designed by Lewbrook Lowell to complement comple-ment summer suits or city sheers. Bows of tangerine grosgrain ribbon rib-bon encircle the head fitting crown. WOMEN'S CLOTHES usually show infinite variety, and the desire for this seems boundless. However, most of us can afford only one wardrobe, if that, for a season, and it's nice when we can do something simple at home to freshen up the dresses. This year, particularly, women's summer clothing is full of tricks to make them more feminine, more colorful and more summer-like. If you need to perk up the wardrobe a bit, any one of these sewing tricks I'm going to tell you about will do lots for your morale. Gloves Can Be Decorative You've never seen gloves within recent years that look like those being shown now. Even gentle pastels pas-tels are breaking out with a rash of color. Sweet powder blue ones are made more surprising and daring dar-ing with a flash of cherry red at the wrists. This is easy to do at home even to a pair of white gloves for they can be tinted, and the color added from another piece of fabric. Of if you are wearing white gloves with a summer print, a piece of that print might be used to decorate deco-rate the cuffs of your gloves. It takes but a few minutes to cut and sew on. One of the latest things in gloves is to have ruffles around the wrists. Perk up dress with capelet . This may be eyelet or lace, in a single or double frilly row. ' Eyelet or lace is particularly effective ef-fective if you are going to wear gloves with a dress that is similarly trimmed. Camisoles Are Popular Under Sheer Blouses Almost every good looking organdie or-gandie blouse that is being sold, comes with a camisole. Take the ;tip if you're planning to make a frilly blouse, and make a camisole to wear underneath it. To be in high fashion, make it fit beautifully, have wide straps on it and a pretty ribbon that you can run through the lace or eyelet Or if you are wearing white gloves .wear underneath sheer dresses, especially those with sheer tops, you'll be right In step with the times if you make that with a camisole attached. Slips naturally are longer to fit the longer dresses now being worn, I color. All the material needs' is finishing at both ends, for it can be draped suitably around the shoulders. shoul-ders. If you would choose a demurely different touch for your basic dress 1 select a smart and practical cape-let cape-let collar of pique, sharkskin or one of the lovely crisp whites. These are entirely separate and can be kept immaculately fresh very easily. Select a style with Cavalier points or neckband, according to the needs of your basic dress. A dark bolero is very good to use on a print dress if you want to make it more sophisticated. Black is a good color to use with pink, aqua or soft green prints. If you like, select a wide black belt to put on the dress to carry out the dark motif in the bolero. If you have made the print yourself, your-self, you may have enough material ma-terial to make cuffs of the print on the bolero. Wide cuffs are very popular. ! If you don't want either capelet i or bolero, make up a jacket in 1 brilliant color to give your basic dress a real lift. Light blue, pink j or red goes well with navy; beige : or pink go nicely with brown, and , green looks well with black. Freshen Bats With Flowers Open crowned hats are especially easy to freshen if they have flowers or ribbon because either of them can be changed. If the hat is a pastel shade and you want to clean it, dip a soft brush or cloth in cleaning fluid and rub over the hat gently. You then may ! decorate with new ribbon or flowers flow-ers to match, perhaps, another suit or dress you are wearing. These half hats will look especially especial-ly refreshing and pretty if the flowers are enclosed in veiling. A stunning hat which I saw recently I was a navy blue taffeta decorated j with soft pink rosebuds enclosed in very sheer navy blue veiling. If you are the type for a pretty picture hat, you may want to wrap some veiling over the top that comes down underneath the chin to j tie as a bonnet. Most of the large picture hats now are being shown with some sort of fastening under the chin. Straw hats may have their flow- ers freshened; or you may want j to have several sets of flowers that can be snapped on to change with whatever dress or suit you are wearing. Or make a blouse for skirt. so youH have to take this into consideration con-sideration if you are using old patterns. pat-terns. Half slips are made as pretty as the camisoles for many of them come with at least one flounce at the hem, and others with a lot of eyelet decorated with ribbon of course, done up in a nice full ruffle. Dark half slips are popular under billowy skirts and these frequently have a gay plaid flounce on them, a good idea for lengthening some too short half slips you may already al-ready have. Shirts are being tucked up in one or two places just slightly to show off the pretty flounce underneath, and you'll find it a very pretty touch for teen-aged daughter. Here Are Tips For Basic Dresses In case your basic dress has become be-come just a little weary you can dress it up with nice simple touches. The first and easiest idea consists con-sists of changing the buttons. Elaborate, Elabo-rate, jeweled buttons are high fashion fash-ion and can do much to decorate a simple dress. Another very smart idea for the older or younger woman is the use of a stole with a dark dress. Choose some material in a nice print, or if you want to be more dramatic, a nice stripe with glorious shades of Be Smart! Pretty, feminine and very new are these slip-on gloves that become, be-come, dress-up accessories when edged with eyelet embroidery, sheerest organdie trimmed with lace and other tiny ruffles. You'll find these lovelies in fine doeskin or suede leathers, in quality suede fabrics or you can add your own trimmings, the better to match a froth of organdie and lace or what-have-you on hat, jabot or fichu. |