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Show SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY CRUSH PROOF HAVE YOU seen all the new materials ma-terials on your store-shelves? Materials with new finishes that just dare wrinkles and creases to come and stay? Materials for dresses, for shirts, for combination sport and street wear, for dress-up or dress-down use? Don't they just call out to you at your sewing machine, ma-chine, and make you long for a rainy day, to sew for those sunny days a'coming? You'll find denims, not only the good old "faded blue" of the overall over-all and the jeans but in new colors, col-ors, even stripes, that will make up into crisp little dresses, and the most practical suits you ever wore. Coming soon, though not as yet widely distributed, is a new material mate-rial known as dac-. dac-. 1 ron. This new mira- A . cle stuff is absolute- PiIRf ly crease - proof when wet, won't shrink or stretch in ....-, any kind of weath- er, and will make up into even men's suits that will hold their press and shape in rain, or a 90 degree temperature tem-perature with 97 per cent humidity. What a find for blouses, slacks, shirts, skirts, dresses! Slacks that will hold a sharp crease through laundering. Even your menfolk's suits will keep that band-box look . liiip through days of wear. And for that sudden business trip, or vacation, you can pack his overnight bag with three suits, and he can unpack them as creaseless as when you put 'em in! The future of dacron is beyond imagination. It will be teamed up with wool to make suitings much less wrinkleable than all wool; and with rayon to give lower cost suits. So ask your clothier about this miracle material, and be the first to buy it when it comes in! OLD LACE COMEBACK Old-fashioned cotton lace is back again in modern guise! You know how wrinkle-proof it always was heirloom stuff rolled up in an old trunk, and fresh and creaseless after aft-er years of hoarding! What a blessing bless-ing for summer clothes! You can find it in white and cream, of course, but also in sharper colors reds, aquas, greens, blues, yellows, yel-lows, maybe even persimmon! For street dress, or sports, or as a decorative dec-orative touch for that basic black, for collar and cuffs, or jabot, or puff sleeves or little apron! STOLE STEALS SHOW Those new cottons stacked up on your store shelves lend themselves perfectly to the versatile stole that is this season's big news! Buy sheer cotton, fishnet, or a colorful print, and make up a stole. Wear it over your sundress. Wear it as a sash to glamorize a solid-color costume you're beginning to tire of. Wear it as a ruffle, a bustle, or an apron a different costume with each use! For without a stole, your summer sum-mer could be a fashion flop! Cotton separates are another solution so-lution for variety and economy. Start with a sheath dress, for instance, in-stance, and add to it to taste. Add a duster of sheer material, or a smart jacket in contrasting or harmonizing har-monizing color. Combine a T blouse of one shade with a skirt of another. Combine cotton with cotton, or dye uncreasable voile for a skirt, the same color as the broadcloth broad-cloth blouse or vice versa! There's a limitless number of possibilities of combinations of cottons cot-tons at your finger tips for the choosing from your store shelves. For cotton is still the prime national nation-al favorite textile fiber, being used more than wool, silk, flax, rayon and all other fibers combined. For durability, it can't be beat! They even have proved that cotton bales stored for more than 80 years have been found in excellent condition. |