Show woman s world cottons steal I 1 the spotlight for cool as a breeze fashio yn calta hat eai G cool Is the first consideration K KEEPING for sum summer ner cloah clothes the other consider consideration atnori which in the past has too often been neg lecter Is style or smartness style is difficult to achieve in a summery dress because no matter how lovely it can take on the appearance dowdy dowd y thing of 0 a rumpled within an hour after youve put it on simply because the weather takes all the starch out ol of you and your dress because it is difficult to keep cool and at the same time look well groomed id suggest you concentrate on the simpler fashions for summer pleats are very nice but gleyre hard to keep well pressed when the temperatures soaring ruffles may look very nice on a blouse for a dressy suit but they wilt easily when youre perspiring all this is said to suggest you consider the choice of a summer afternoon dress carefully look at the work of the count rys best designers dee clee and you will always se see e simplicity the ba basic sic note the guiding factor in a dress suit or coat another factor that has an important bearing on your style is the fabric you use you would hardly consider a waffle weave for a ruffled effect nor would you consider the cool but weighty mesh prints tor for lots of aurb furbelows fur belows on a dress if you want to look cool and nd collected then choose your print and color with a lot of care unless you want to appear very gay dont buy red unless its relieved by plenty of white or neutral nor do I 1 suggest you choose a very warm shade like orange or yellow orange take your pick from the pale yellow tints or cool colors like green blue and violet brown and black with touches of white or neutral a are re also very attractive white is difficult to keep clean in some see sec 4 0 11 you have dress length material eions of the country but it Is cool to wear and particularly nice for dress up cut your pattern with architects precision remember theres nothing hard about any part of sewing tt if you work as a professional ional Na naturally y this will permit no slipshod slip shod cutting or careless fitting tf if you are working very carefully and with fabric which Is quite expensive it may be best to cut and fit your pattern of inexpensive unbleached muslin this can be run together on a machine with long stitches just well enough to hold it through a good fitting and then ripped and used as the pattern the easiest way of keeping the material from which you are cutting in a straight line and even told fold is to tak it lightly on your working table clerks try to keep material straight when they cut it for you but some fabrics are so slippery this is impossible it is better to take a little time to get it in N 14 01 1 a s a pretty afternoon frock line to lie straight before cutting than to have a dress that does not set well the little notches on your pattern which are designed as tucks and darts are mighty important in M ni ing the garment lit fit you the tn rk line may require more than 07 or two darts to make it lit fit jnue SM the darts at the waistline may hi h to be a little smaller than shwa shon the pattern perhaps the undera darts should be just a little deep to give you good line all of 0 tte little things can be basting first then fitting A recent bit of news suggest that we women were spread across the hips much mort more st sis the war than our designers anac and they tell us that dc not apply only to the older but to the teenaged teen aged youngs tt as well because the skirt fit is so inapt icv tant its a good idea to baste I 1 entire skirt in place before aftem ing any sewing slip the garm ganne on and if the seam allowance I 1 been too generous you can alva let it out it if the garment it is I 1 snug it may be necessary to pla ph panels at the sides to give rc room at any rate its better know just what the score is let you put in those hard to rip stitch dont teel feel that just been youre you re sewing on cotton that you t c afford to be careless whereas c ton used to be an inexpensive ma rial before the war it is but that now A good piece ot of ma r rial lal deserves just as good trea treating as you can give it |