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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
7
Teens craft playful accessories from felt and paper doilies. Create butterfly decorations, flower toe trims, patched wearables, vegetable lapel accents, colorful doily hair bows, and laced back pin curl hairstyles for slumber party looks.
The piece offers cost saving tips for curtains and draperies during fabric shortages. It suggests choosing either curtains or draperies, adding swag or valance for finish, using wide draperies to replace blinds, dyeing faded creton and saving linings by reusing old draperies as foundations. It also covers double sash curtains from leftovers and creating striped looks from multiple fabric scraps.
Wartime analysis notes wolframite as the chief source of tungsten, crucial for munitions and industry. Spain and Portugal are major European suppliers, with shifts in supply affecting Germany.
The article notes a new fashion trend elevating cottons to high style. It describes gingham dresses glittering with sequins, chambrays treated like crepes, beadwork on sheers, and chic drape effects, making cottons desired for lunches, cocktails, and dances.
A navy bolero suit with white or colorful accessories is highlighted as a leading daytime ensemble. The look features a navy sheer wool bolero with a white pique embroidered blouse and a belt of red patent leather with navy suede accents as shown at the recent Cover-Girl luncheon fashion revue.
Shortage of metal curtain rods shifts style to wooden rods with elaborate window treatments. The article details separate cut pieces for swags and jabots, bias ends, and step by step measurement guidance for Victorian inspired drapery, as illustrated and offered in a series of books.
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