NEW FROCKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 8

NEW FROCKS

FOR SUMMER WEAR. ' TRY THIS METHOD OF SELECTION. Next time you want to choose a dress, do this. Look carefully through the latest bocks, study the smarter window displays, then for two days forget all about your dress'. Then try on paper either to draw or write what has impressed you most, •what has remained in your memory. You won’t remember any frock in every detail, and you will find you have remembered the skirt of one, the bodice of another, the sleeves of a third. Put them together, and providing they have some sort of sympathy with each other you will find that you have concocted a completely original frock. Into its design will have gone your own impression, your own ideas; you will have created something . . something of you will have gone into it, and no one else in the world will have a frock quite like it. Now try it. Here are some ideas to work on: A floral petticoat for a plain coloured dress. Wool lace yoke, and sleeves for a jersey frock. Fringe worn round the waist like a peplum. Tweed skirt fastened with coloured leather ties instead of buttons. Dressing gowns made from furniture chintz lined with velvet. Initials in black sequins worked into the corner of black suede gloves. Narrow strips of silver fox mounted on white chiffon to make an evening cape. Starched lace flowers in the lapel of a suit . . . hat . . . matching flowers. Combine white pique and black velvet . . . children’s gingham for a blouse worn with a corduroy suit . . . scatter sequins on your dancing slippers by the use of a little glue. Try postman’s red with pale yellow. Black with tan. Deep blue with soft green. Line a tweed coat with taffeta. Line a taffeta coat with tweed. Try sitting down and thinking out ideas of your own. Have the courage to wear them.