A MEDLEY OF USEFUL TIPS
From painful experience, you probably know* how very uncomfortable even a light felt hat can be if it tits, too tightly to the head. Perhaps it seemed “just right” when you bought it, but after a few hours’ wear it pressed too closely on the brow, causing headache and an unpleasant con. strictcd feeling. A simple way of overcoming this difficulty is to steam the hat over boiling water until it is quite soft and pliable; then find a large pudding basin which fits your head and press the hat firmly over the upturned basin. When the hal is almost dry, take it off the basin, try it on to make sure it is now large enough and also to get the correct shape; then remove it carefully and let it dry off npside down, panging by a tape pinned to each side of the crown. Here is a hint that you will find useful when making a frock at home and no on© is at hand to help yon turn up the hem and make it level. Put on the skirt or frock., stand close to a table so that tho edge of the table touches you; then take a piece of tailor’s chalk, and, turning slowly, mark the skirt all the way round exactly where the table edgo touches it. By this means you will be able to get the skirt exactly even if yon measure from the chalk marks to the hem and turn up accordingly. "COTTAGE” CURTAINS By buying nn extra longtn from which to cut the boldly-flowered border on either Bide, those cheap hut pretty curtains of floral-edged <roam rasomen t. cloth can ho made to look their most attr.actiyo bast.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 15
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291A MEDLEY OF USEFUL TIPS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 15
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