Show SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY CURTAIN CALL THAT summer glare getting you hot and And when you try to shut It with those pretty you shut out the gentle summer f l Why don't you give A the drapes a I and yourself some sheer glass h FEATURE already made up in all the lengths and to suit the windows you want to if you want to make as most of you that favorite clerk of yours can show you all the fabrics you could desire to choose and marquisette are among the favorite materials but If you're sewing fine or coarse scrim and voile are the easiest to measure and even that elegant material so loved by your is available and it wears like You'll be amazed at how sheer curtains soften harsh shut out unattractive views from and unwelcome viewers from for your greater And sheer curtains welcome and the sunshine from which all glare Is filtered For summer curtains are your best And the chances are that you'll like the look of them so well that you'll leave up throughout the along with those colorful straight or and change the aspect of your room day The quality of sheer curtains and as your favorite clerk will tell Is determined largely by the fibers the way they're and the way the cloth is woven and Sheer fabrics of good quality have fine fibers of evenly spun and tightly Ask to see the mercerized and those with other chemical They're really a for they're and soil and All these chemically-treated materials are so read while you It if you want to test the wad it up in your If it springs back into shape you can for It'll need little SEE THAT SELVAGE Most of the available Information as to shrinkage and colorfastness Is on the label on the selvage of the raw When figuring how many yards you will have to don't or your curtains will be Count on in enough material to be twice the width of the space to be Be about your lengthwise measurements allowing at least 3 Inches to the As to beware of those Just marked Have your clerk show you the more specific to and to dry and take his or her word on the colorfastness to strong That friendly favorite clerk may even let not only small samples to try out for but various lengths to try out against your because only by experiment on the scene can you be positive it's just what you |