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Show rage OCTOHER 6, 1951 SATURDAY, TIIE JOURNAL 10 WOMAN'S WORLD SEWING PATTERNS CIRCLE Mother-to-B- e for Outfit Neat Windows Emphasize Furnishings Styled THE By Ertta Haley touch of glamour that a hat to a beautiful costume is much the same role which well Window Magic styled windows play in your home. If you have lovely furniture and beautiful accessories, you need carefully chosen window coverings to show them off, to lend proper background. Todays furnishing trends are getting away from the ornate window treatments of yesterday, as these detract too much from what nice furnishings you have in the room, and they are also expensive. Now we have simple window treatments which have a luxury of their own because curtains and draperies are full, though simple. You may have both draperies and sheer curtains at your windows, but since the combination is apt to run into a bit of an investment it may Heres a problem window be wise to choose draperies for which has been easily made an those windows which give a nice asset. Polka dot chintz ruffling view, while sheer glass curtains are under the table to camgoes appropriate for small informal ouflage mopsv and buckets. A room. Venetian blind, with contrastMore than any one single thing, ing slats hides the dreary outremember that windows can add look from the window. Gay rufto or detract from the atmosphere fles of chintz to match the bar of the room, depending upon what skirt were basted onto the tapes you do with them. corof the blind and an You may have a problem with nice frames the window. the size of windows or with their placement. There are answers to be used at the sides, tied back to these rather common problems, and the windows. they are all attractive ones. A kitchen window which is largNo matter how ugly a duckling er curtains you than the any one or several windows may have on handcottage can be easily rembe, you can, with some good plan- edied. Add several rows of ruffle ning, turn them into assets. to the bottom of curtain to make it Little money to spend, a lack of fit. sufficient fabric to give full luxAnother solution is to use several urious drapes, curtains which dont of cotton curtain material fit a new house or apartment, all yards to make a glass curtain for the window. Several rows of bright material made into ruffles can be used as the bottom edge. Not So Easy Now clerk in a of livcost the troubled by store, ing, went in to ask his testy old employer for a raise. The employer listened impatiently. Finally, he exclaimed: Why, when I was your age 1 supported a family on what you're getting now. Yes, retorted the young man, but they didnt have cash registers in those days. A young fellow, a an easy chair near the window with an ottoman, and have these covered as the cornice. If you have a patterned drapery material that is not too distinctive, give the windows a dramatic touch by using a lush swag at the top of the draperies, in a solid color which is predominant in the draper ies. . all-ov- er Give Decorator Treatments To Problem Windows All the draperies in a room need not match. There are times when its more desirable not to have them match. A problem window, one that has poor size and poor location should not receive the attention which a satisfactory window needs, for instance. Take the room with a large bay window which is distinctly an asset. Use a good attractive print or color in draperies for this window. A full swag emphasizes drapes. In the same room you may have a can be readily solved if youll put fireplace window, that is, one on your imagination and ingenuity to the same wall as the fireplace. The work. Short on Material? Use these Tricks Perhaps you have some, draperies, or a length or two not-so-fu- ll size of the window is poor, and to use the same draperies on this window as the bay window would be to distract interest from both the fireplace as well as the bay window. The smartest covering for the fireplace window would be a plain material similar to the wall coloring. If walls are blue, green or gray, for example, have the plain window draperies dyed exactly the same so this window will melt into the background. of material which do not cover a window luxuriously. Or, if you have two windows to treat rather than one, with possibly a single pair of draperies, you can do several things. One of the smartest ways to treat the problem is to build a floor length plywood frame for the window or windows. Cover this frame with the material on hand. It will take far less to cover the frame than to make gathered draperies, and the effect is good. The plywood frame can be straight on the outside top as well as on the sides. Inside, the part which is next to the window, on all four sides can be scalloped, large scallops of course, to add the proper decorative note. Lets say that you have a wide window or two narrow windows in the bedroom or dressing room. Why not treat these as one, for they will Cornice matches room chair. look better and conserve material. Small windows, or a pair of You can set twin dressing tables against the windows. Use sheer such windows as is found in many material right on the windows, in homes need not be despairing. full folds, then a three or four inch Rather than draperies, build a corwidth of ruffle across the top, of nice around the whole window and the same material as is used to cover this with the same material cover the dressing tables. Glass as a chair in the room. If is set off the room a bit, place curtains of the same material can the-windo- Blinds Can Solve Problems Problem windows, can, in almost every instance be solved with the correct use of Venetian blinds. If you have a group of two or three small windows which are drab and uninteresting, create a picture window effect by treating the entire group as one unit when decorating. You may hang a single large blind instead of two or three smaller Window ones, and then use a plain or decorated cornice to span the entire group, with one pair of draperies on the extreme sides. If you have an especially pretty wallpaper, such as clusters of flowers or fruit, cut the designs out of the leftover wallpaper, and cut into strips measuring one and three-quartinches, the size of each slat. These can be pasted on the slats with just library paste. When you have ceiling - high draperies, use attractive blinds to hide the bare spot above the windows. These are especially good for large windows as the blinds can be drawn to give the privacy desired during day or evening. Once windows have been fitted with blinds, you can use numerous decorating tricks which are simple yet effective. Blind tapes are good to use for repeating the motifs of draperies on them. Artificial flowers sewed on a ribbon and thence onto the tapes are beautifully decorative. Another trick which is very useful especially in dinettes, kitchens or bedrooms is to make ruffling from one of the materials used in the room. These ruffles can be attached to the blind tapes by simple sewing, and are wonderfully decer Maternity Frock ft neat, youthfully styled matern-itfrock thats so comfortable to wear. Waistline drawstring insures needed adjustment; pattern y provides for slip and loose cut jacket. Pattern No. 3189 is a sew-ritrated pattern in sizes 12, 14, 16, 40, 42. 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There are bigger pins set with bigger stones, bigger earrings in button shapes, as well as bigger contour types that cover the ear or curve up the ear. One of the blouses which carries out the trend of delicate ladylike shrugging of the shoulders is one which has two or three rows of ing to the arms for a few inches, tucking across ,the bodice, extend- Flannel is the number one suit fabric, say the fashion experts with gray the leading color and brown the runner-up- . Two and three tone flannel suits are much in evidence, with ribbed worsted a..d fine striped gray flannels holding attention. Pinwale corduroy is important in school and career girl fashions, particularly in items which you want to give lots of wear. d skirts are fashionable in this fabric as are vests. and jackets. 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