Crafting chic from cotton bags boosts thrifty fashion
A Western Newspaper Union release extols converting flour and pantry bags into hundreds of apparel and household items. It suggests dyeing, trimming with rick rack, and featuring unbleached bags for dresses, pinafores, and a sun suit, highlighting patriotic fabric conservation.
Print Accents Tie Accessories to Costume in New Style
A new fashion approach uses print cloth to match accessories with the outfit. A print blouse is paired with gloves in the same pattern, while a wool suit features shoulder inserts of the same silk and rayon polka dot to unify the look.
Taffeta Accessories Set Off Basic Suit
Fashion notes promote taffeta accessories to brighten simple suits and gowns. Featured items include plaid and stripe taffeta accents, a Roman stripe weskit, a sun-back sleeveless blouse with a bias cut, and coordinated gloves bags and hats.
Gingham Fashion Covers Formal to Casual Looks
The piece describes gingham as versatile for formal and informal wear. It highlights black and white check fabrics with a low cut yoke, gypsy scarf accoutrements, and glitter beads, plus gingham shirts, accessories, hats, bags, and gloves rising in summer fashion. It emphasizes adaptability for occasions and enduring appeal of the gay fabric.
Cummings on Directing Actors and Film Craft
Irving Cummings argues that directors who have acted understand performers better. He cites his work on What a Woman and My Gal Sal and discusses easing actors into roles, shooting toward story continuity, and building confidence on set with Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman in The Impatient Years. He notes his 35 years in film.
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Alec Templeton to Conduct at Cabbages and Kings
O K Pal Joe Pasternak reports Alec Templeton will perform piano and conduct the orchestra in Cabbages and Kings. The news pleases fans who admire him and his work. Barbara Stanwyck may take a role intended for Bette Davis, angering fans who doubt she needs to. Ann Sheridan says her overseas wardrobe will weigh 10 pounds, including three gowns. Veronica Lake may not make another picture until November. The cost of Bring On the Girls rose by 200000 due to Shady Eyes Goldilocks. Betty Blythe shines in Public Relations in New York, signaling bigger things. Gypsy Rose Lee signs a four-year deal after a one-year contract with Bill Goetz. Warners is dropping war pictures as writers are ordered off them. Louise Allbritton is suspended by Universal for going overseas without consent. Humphrey Bogart sings in To Have and Have Not, prompting talk Frank Sinatra may retaliate.
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Bette Davis
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Veronica Lake
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Louise Allbritton
Universal
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Barbara Bell Pattern 1938 for Young Sizes 6 8 10 12 14
Barbara Bell pattern No 1938 designed for sizes 6 8 10 12 and 14 years. Size 8 short sleeves requires 23 percent yards of 39 inch material and 14 yard contrast for collar.
Practical Home Tips From A Vintage Crafts Page
A collection of simple DIY hacks including turning a belt with extra tape, using tobacco tins as yarn parking spots, creating a right angle brush from a broken handle, sewing a pocket into a pillowcase to prevent lost handkerchiefs, using worn anklets as covers for wax applicators, rug wool carpet repair, rubber care tips to extend footwear life, and finishing fabric edges with rickrack by folding the edge inward before stitching.
Masterpiece Often Stolen Herr Goering Now Has It
The Adoration of the Lamb at Ghent has a long history of theft and recovery. Between 1432 and 1781 it remained intact, but since then panels have repeatedly vanished and been found. In 1940 it went to France for safekeeping and in 1943 was given to Hermann Goering by the Vichy government.
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