How You Can Bring Old Styles Up-to-date
Have you a suit with an exaggerated long jacket, bi'g hip pockers, knee-lengh skirt The- jacket is still good for 1948 if you chop it rshort above the pocket levei, square the neck and fill with a- softly draped scarf. Team your • jacjset with one of the new ' skirts, generously full bn the hips. f A plain evening . gowp with strapped, fitted bodice and simple floor-length skirt takes on Iresh charm if you take off the straps, bone the bodice and soften the shoulders with a filmy flchu drape. Shorten the skirt to. . ballet leiigth and tuck a bunch of roses ln at the waist. - To bring a shirt- waist classic into line with fashion, take out shoulder padding .and close collar high at the throat with a soft .Gibson girl bow. Shorten sleeves, draw fullness into cuff and flnish with bow ties. Added bands of contrasting fabric sweep the skirt down to the new smart length.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1948, Page 8
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164How You Can Bring Old Styles Up-to-date Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1948, Page 8
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