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Show L WomanV World Careful Dress Fitting Required l o Minimize All Figure Faults Next time you are shopping or riding in a public conveyance, look about you. Yes, do it critically, too. One thing I can guarantee you is that very few people will look perfect per-fect as far as their figures are concerned. con-cerned. Now look again and try to find the most attractive woman around you and look at her critically. At first glance she may look perfect, which is as it should be, but on careful inspection you may notice that one shoulder is a little higher than the other or that her proportions propor-tions aren't quite as perfect as they first appeared. However, you say, she does look nice. Well, that's the way we all should like to measure up when inspected either by others or ourselves. And it can be done, as you have seen for yourself, if we dress so as to point up our good points and minimize those about which we are not so proud. Fortunately there are many tricks that can be applied to clothing and many disguises to be employed which will do just that for us. We play up our eyes and features if they are good, then carefully add more padding to one shoulder, lift or lower the waistline, nip it in or make it one inch more loose, and hide our figure faults very successfully. suc-cessfully. Whether you do your own fitting or have someone do it for you is not the question. It is simply a matter of doing it. When we first buy or make a dress, we may be so taken with the pattern or color of the fab- ' let your clothes . . , lie tVt these other considerations do not come into active being. But after you have worn the dress for some time and suddenly catch a glimpse of yourself in a mirror, you'll notice how much could have been done to make the garment personally per-sonally yours. Side Seams, Back and Front Lines Must Be Straight Always check the long lines of the garment first. Don't try to stand unnaturally straight so they will look right, but see if the side seams and front and back lines look straight when you stand normally. They should just fit and fall in place easily, for one rarely thinks of straightening up or walking in an unnatural way. Naturally, if you have a noticeable notice-able slouch, correct it, but if your posture is fairly good, then the garment gar-ment should do the rest. The lengthwise threads of the fabric, fab-ric, both in the back and front, should hang straight. If you are sewing at home, the best way to make sure your fabric will hang properly is not to neglect the basting bast-ing threads that help guide us in sewing and help us in keeping the Be personalized to fit you. material properly aligned. A small thing, this, but it will save time and effort in fitting later. Always check horizontal lines before be-fore you stitch. Armholes, sleeves, nickline and shoulders should be examined ex-amined critically to see if they balance bal-ance on you when you fit the garment. gar-ment. Check before putting in your final stitching. Press before stitching stitch-ing to help guide you in this. Many Alterations Involve Only Simple Adjustments If HLir dresses seem too loose and ixmor if they are too tight to fe i ymfortable, the natural thing Fashion Bird cups are very popular ior wearing on plain dresses or suits, but choose them with care and consideration. con-sideration. Twisted threads of gold, another feature in new jewelry, are destined . fco another feature of importance. They will be found on all sorts of jewelry to lena lion. an air of distinc- 2 SjFty ... ,Ll$zsj..i j : Crepe Jerkin yywiiwusj 1 X I J r'-- l, i i J " "'""Jrnvr A white crepe dress Is used with a navy crepe jerkin stitched In white from Sond-heim's Sond-heim's collection. The gold kid belt has a gold metal and kid medallion fob. is to look to the underarm seam. If the garment is too loose and hangs in a baggy fashion, pin wider seams in the dress, and baste and stitch them. But wait, just a moment, you're not quite finished yet. Seams should be equal on both sides, or the garment will feel off balance and eventually acquire that look. If you have taken the garment in a great deal, it's best to trim the seams down. Do your pinning and fitting on the right side of the garment gar-ment first, then transfer the pins and turn to the wrong side after you are certain the garment is fitted properly. prop-erly. On the other hand, your dress may fit too tightly to feel really comfortable. comfort-able. Then let out as much material as possible from the seams to relieve re-lieve the strain. If you are adding a piece of material, ma-terial, It must taper off down to the waist so the garment will hang properly. prop-erly. If you do not need much at the waist, taper the piece of material off to nothing, but do taper it. Contrasting colored material often is used to give extra room at the sides of the garment, and will be effective if you have to extend it below the waist to allow more room at the hips. Be sure bands of contrasting con-trasting material are well balanced in size. The hipline is pinned in much the same fashion as above the waist if it is too loose. Do not make the dress too tight, and here again see that both sides are even. In making a garment more roomy at the hips, let out all seams to give yourself as much material as possible. pos-sible. If this does not give you enough room, have a trimming band running on either side. In some dresses, it is possible to remake the skirt so as to give you more room. This can be done when the skirt is pleated, and you can cut down the number of pleats and make a simple straight skirt out of it. Sewing Hints There are many things you can learn to do with a sewing machine if you will take the time to find out how it's done. The beginner must, first of all, learn how to sew straight, and this is best done by watching the stitching and seeing that the same distance is kept from the edge to the stitching, rather than looking to the other side of the garment. Chalked lines also may be used as a guide. Gathering, ruffling and even pleating may be done with a sewing sew-ing machine attachment. Even buttonholes, the bane of many a woman's existence, are made easy with an attachment. Shirring and quilting also can be made by hand or machine to add more decorative features to your home sewing. This takes only a little time to do, but is very effective. You'll find that contrasting colored col-ored threads for many of the decorative dec-orative stitches made either by hand or machine will help immeasurably im-measurably in making your garments gar-ments more attractive. Select these when you pick out your fabrics. fab-rics. Flashes Brown patent leather shoes highlight high-light the beige wool street or afternoon after-noon dress while low heeled sling strap pumps are nice with tailored suits. For shorter evening wear you will want to be as careful of your shoes as of your gown. And for street clothes, shoes are ot the utmost importance. tSH V" ! - , h I i S I , J IEOSCREI Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JACK PAAR, ex-G.I. come-dian come-dian who's under contracl to RKO, has just signed a six-year six-year radio contract, topping a career that began 12 years ago, when he was 16. You ! hear him now on the CBS "Vaughan Monroe" show Saturday nights; then you'd have heard him : as a . staff announcer and uninten tional comedian. Announcing tha ' Cleveland National air races, he did fine, except that he pronounced th i wrong plane as winner; looked 1 away for a minute and the winner JACK PAAR he'd picked came In last. During the war he was a member of Special Services, entertaining troops on what he calls the fungus vaudeville circuit. Ingrid Bergman's been awarded the highest Swedish order for artists art-ists and scientists by King Gustaf of Sweden. But seeing her going about New York you'd never suspect that she's a top-ranking movie star, and also the star of the town's best play. You'd see a pretty girl, wearing a mink coat, with a black hood tied over her head unrecognized by people peo-ple who'd clamor for autographs. After seeing visiting stars who spare nothing and nobody in their efforts to be recognized even while they wail for privacy, she's refreshing. Gene Autry has formed his own independent producing unit, which goes to work at Columbia Pictures the first of April, with an exclusive contract to produce four high budget pictures per year for two years. Big outdoor musicals with Grade A stories, sto-ries, that's what he'll aim for. He should be able to turn them out, with all Columbia's facilities and his own music organization to draw on. Henry A. Reichold, the Detroit industrialist, thinks there are two or three million people who want to listen lis-ten to straight classical music, with no interruptions or commercial interferences. in-terferences. That's why he's sponsoring spon-soring that series of "Sunday Evening Eve-ning Hours," with the Detroit Symphony. Sym-phony. But he's deliberately buck-ing buck-ing Fred Allen and Edgar Bergen; has the same time on the air as twe of our best comedy shows! The Koscoe Karns are original; when they headed for Reno, on completion com-pletion of "Gallant Man" at Republic Re-public Studios they were intent not on divorce, but on having a second sec-ond honeymoon; they've been happily hap-pily married for a quarter of a century, cen-tury, Oscar Bradley, conductor of "We, the People" orchestra, is pretty proud of Arnold Eidus, who recently competed in the international violin competition in Paris and took first place. He won a concert tour to 38 cities. When Eidus returns to this country, probably in April, Mr. Bradley plans to have him as a guest on the show. You see, the violinist till recently was one of the boys in the band. In "Undercover Maizie" Ann Soth-em Soth-em portrays a police woman and we're told (and it's hard to believe) that she spent several days at the Los Angeles Police Academy, undergoing under-going the strenuous routines prescribed pre-scribed for rookie cops; showing uf for setting-up exercises in a play-suit, play-suit, hitting the bullseye with a pistol, pis-tol, though she'd never fired one before be-fore in her life, etc., etc. Setting up a "Vox Pop" broadcast broad-cast is no cinch. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull often interview as many as 150 persons during the preliminary pre-liminary proceedings, determining the six who'll go on the air. Then Mrs. Johnson has to round up presents pres-ents for them. ODDS AND ENDS Veronica Lakt is going to hide that eye under that loch oj hair again in Paramount! "Saigon.". . . "National Velvet" it slated to come to the air waves February Feb-ruary 3rd. . . . Marlene Aames, aged seven, who plays the daughter on thi Sunday "Blondie" show, made her film debut in "The Best Years 0 Oui Lives.". . . Everyone ought to see "Caesar "Cae-sar and Cleopatra" if only to see who, "Glorious Technicolor" can be liki when ifs really glorious. . . . Mercedes McCambridge, of "Big Sister," is searching search-ing for a voodoo drum player; hei husband gave her drum from Haiti but she doesn't know bow to clay is OADtO V ' I I Kathleen Norris Says: The Governess Wife Bell Syndicate. " asked to see bit checkbook the explain quite a few details to me." By KATHLEEN NORRIS DON'T marry a man with the idea that it will be easy to change him. It never works; they don't change. They may develop qualities and tastes that surprise sur-prise you you may find the man you thought a stay-at-home likes to go out every night, or that the man you thought a night-club favorite never wants to leave his own fireside. Such surprises as that are the very commonplaces common-places of marriage. But not changes. The jealous sweetheart will continue to be Jealous, Jeal-ous, the lazy man who is always changing jobs will go on shifting, the lad who drinks too much and gambles gam-bles away his money will go right on drinking and gambling. The other day I had a talk with a bride-to-be. It struck me as extremely ex-tremely ominous, and I've been wondering won-dering ever since if the promised husband has any idea of the training train-ing In store for him. All the conditions condi-tions of their marriage seem to be ideal, good social standing, old fam ily friendships, comfortable income and a most attractive apartment ready and waiting. But the bride's attitude is not so promising. She was buying gloves, with one of her bridesmaids as companion, and chattered quite freely of her plans. Tom, it seems, has to make business busi-ness trips to New York now and then and likes to make them by plane, but Sharon has stopped that. "I'm deathly afraid of planes," she explained, "and I put my foot down." 'Don't Let Precedents Start.' It also appeared that she had been quite frank about Tom's mother. Tom wanted to stop off at Santa Barbara and see his mother, on his honeymoon trip to Mexico; Sharon said no. "Once you start that sort of thing it establishes a precedent," she told me. Duck shooting was men tioned; Tom is a famous shot. "I think that young man's duck hunting hunt-ing days are over," Sharon murmured mur-mured confidently, eyeing a beauti ful glove on her beautiful hand. "He's going to be the best-trained best-trained husband in town," she said happily. "His friends won't know him. I asked to see his checkbook the other day, and the young man had to explain quite a few details to me. Don't you think," she appealed ap-pealed to me, "that the time to train them is in the very beginning?" begin-ning?" I was too stunned to reply. If she had been talking of an airdale puppy pup-py it might have been intelligible, but Tom is six feet of husky, vital, assertive human being, with a fine mind, a fine education and a fine war record. She paid for her gloves and went her happy way, and I went mine with a feeling of intense pity for Tom. There are ways, of course, in which wives can exert influence; the little ways of neatness and consideration consider-ation and promptness and thrift. But those occasions when suggestions are in order come only now and then, and should be handled na-; na-; turally, with affection and tact. Men cnange, ana women ao 100, in a happy marriage, but they change without knowing it, the miracle of growing trust and companionship and Improvement is never visible. j and certainly never cut-and-dried ; before ever the marriage takes : place. j So I have great fears for the mar-j mar-j riage of Sharon and Tom, and feel , reasonably sure that he will grow resUess under this organized control, con-trol, and break away from her ami tl II I "He may never leave his fireside." WNU Ftaturea. other day and the young man had to MAKING HIM OVER Women bare tried many, many times to reform their husbands, to "make them over," but it has rarely been successful. success-ful. Men cling stubbornly to their ways, resistant to appeals and pressures. This is especially true in regards to personal habits, hab-its, likes and dislikes. Sometimes, Some-times, where a man realizes in bis heart that he is at fault, he will, with his wife's aid, struggle strug-gle to change his ways. When be is convinced that he is right, however, he will seldom yield, at least not permanently. Miss Norris in today's article tells about a bride who is starting start-ing off wrong and is heading for trouble. She is quite attractive attrac-tive and intelligent, but she is not keen enough to realize that trying to make over a big, successful, suc-cessful, well-educated young man is fatal to happy married life. She doesn't want him to travel trav-el by air, or go hunting, or visit vis-it bis mother in California and that's just a start; she intends to "train" him in her ways of thinking and acting. Sooner or later Tom is going to rebel and be is going to tell Sharon bluntly that he intends to have his own way in personal matters. mat-ters. Sharon may bristle up and the quarrel that leads to the divorce court will have begun. be-gun. If she bos learned anything any-thing of human nature by that time, however, she will give up trying to change her husband. hus-band. No girl should marry a man unless she likes him as he is. Sharon apparently ap-parently likes Tom only for certain possibilities she sees in him, and if Tom ever suspects that he has married a governess and trainer rather than a wife, he will be infuriated. in-furiated. Tactful Handling. Sometimes after years of marriage mar-riage this sense of smug superiority superior-ity breaks out in a wife. "Why not have that gray paper in the halls?" the husband suggests. "Because It would be perfectly ridiculous, dear," says the wife. "Why would it be ridiculous? Wasn't our old room at home that way?" "Our old room was simply hideous," the wife returned smoothly, "and everyone ev-eryone knows you have no taste, darling." One wife I know merely smiles and listens when her husband holds forth at breakfast about something he likes or doesn't like in domestic domes-tic matters. She smiles, listens with faintly raised eyebrows, and very slightly shakes her head, for the benefit of her daughters, "Just as soon as he goes," her expression tells them, "we'll fix it all our way." Very few men, no matter how abrupt or absent-minded or absorbed, ab-sorbed, treat their wives to this sort of arrogant rudeness. Instead there appears to be a general impression im-pression that Mommy does know best about things. So some of them alienate their own families, give up old friends and comfortable habits, pay uncomplainingly for furniture and wallpaper they don't really like, for long years and years. But there comes a breaking point, and wives might as well be on the watch not to reach it. To try to change a man is usually to lose him entirely. Lamp Sterilises Milk An ultra violet ray lamp capable jf killing airborne bacteria has been produced by the Westinghouse Electric Elec-tric Corp. for use in dairy barns. Ths new dvice, known as steri-lamp, steri-lamp, can reduce the amount of such bacteria by 90 per cent, Allen Al-len DesauJt, lamp allocation engineer engin-eer for the company said. "Milk in healthy cows is uncoi;-taminated, uncoi;-taminated, but ar soon as it leaves the cow it is on its own," he said. "Few foods provide such an excellent excel-lent medium for bacterial growth." , 'rM,. 1- -',vJ ta.-' - Mr- a nT- Mother's Love By Elaine Francis WNU Features. AS A baby-sitter she certainly got around, Minerva reflected ringing the bell of the imposing La-bonn La-bonn home. All types of doors had opened for her In the past few months, due to the shortage of servants, serv-ants, but none more Interesting than this one. "Come In, my dear Miller," Tanya Labonn cried. "You're just In Urns lo watch me rehearse." Minerva gaped. Not at the "Miller" "Mill-er" which Mrs. Labonn always tailed her in continental fashion, but it Tanya's exotic beauty. Chattering rapidly, for the for-mer for-mer ballerina was always friendly, always informal, Tanya led the way through the spacious drawing room to the equally large sunroom stripped of all its furnishings except the radio-phonograph. This she mapped on and began to dance. "Miller, you like it?" Tanya Inquired. In-quired. "So does Billy Dunn. He was my agent before the war and tomorrow night he brings movie icouts and big shots to our show. You know about the benefit, yes?" "A plush, lush affair, they call It." Tanya giggled. "But it is luck tor me. All those years when Don, my husDand, was at war, I could not dance. I had to work for victory. vic-tory. But now . . . Don does not mind that I become a glamour puss and go to Hollywood. He says to spread the wings before it Is too late. Ah, Bonnie . . ." She swooped over to the door and kissed her daughter. Suddenly it seemed incredible to Minerva that this 13-year-old was Tanya's child. The contrast was painful. Bonnie's mudblonde hair, Minerva gaped at Tanya's exotic keauty. ' the braces on her teeth, the dainty frock accentuating adolescent bulges. . . . And her face was sullen and dull. What was wrong? IT WAS not until late that night that Minerva learned the answer. People always confided In Minerva, once they had pierced her shabby ! exterior, and Bonnie was no exception. ex-ception. "Mother is gorgeous, isn't she?" she asked wistfully. "A cin ema cinch, her agent says." Minerva's movie going had been limited, but she agreed heartily. vit's selfish," Bonnie cried, "but I wish she'd flop. I loved our life Just as it was now everything is spoiled. Mother gets younger every day and I feel more like a Mack truck. . . ." Minerva could not sleep that night, thinking of Bonnie's unhap-piness. unhap-piness. At this particular stage she was apt to be permanently affected by her mother's fame. Previous- . ly, she had been adaptable. A few mrtv-a WAOt-a BnH ahm WrtlllH hp SPlf. reliant. But right now. . . . If only she could help the child. There was one way, tomorrow. . . . She tried bard to dismiss the idea. Nevertheless, at four the following follow-ing afternoon, the plan was In motion. mo-tion. Having sent Bonnie to the summer sum-mer house for her supposedly mil-laid mil-laid spectacles. Minerva searched for the phone. Strangely, it seemed to have moved, but she found it Just as Tanya returned from the beauty parlor. Picking up the receiver, re-ceiver, Minerva said loudly, "I feel sorry for Bonnie, claims it will ruin her life if Tanya makes a hit. Sure, she's hipped on Hollywood. Oh, 'bye." AS TANYA stood and stared at her, Minerva did not have to act ashamed. She actually felt it. "Didn't hear you," she explained feebly. "My, your hair is pretty." "Miller, how could you discuss our affairs this gossipy way? I am disappointed," Tanya said cold' ly- That night she crept into her seat at the Civic auditorium and watched the curtain rise on Tanya, a whirl of blue. But her performance was so mediocre that Minerva, recalling recall-ing yesterday's fiery dance, was amazed. At the finish Tanya bowed, smiling straight at the box where her husband and Bonnie sat with three disgruntled gentlemen. Ths talent scouts, no doubt, and then Minerva understood that Tanya had deliberately danced that way, sacrificing sac-rificing her career for her daugh ter's sake. But what or who had changed the ballerina's mind. During the intermission, Bonnie came running to Minerva. "I havt a message from mother. She said to tell you the telephone is portable and wasn't plugged in, but thanki anyway. Whatever that means. And Minerva, mom doesn't want to be 1 star. Isn't that super!" 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