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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
8
The midsummer fashion scene blends pastels and prints in equal measure. Pastels dominate smart day dresses with linen fabrics promising nonwrinkle processing. Silk prints featuring checks, plaids, stripes, and dotted effects rival linen in style, with blue silk and white pin dots leading the day look and a Scotch plaid lace-trimmed evening gown completing the spread.
A 1939 variation of the shirt shorts skirt play suit appears with a detachable frill hem. One version uses gay floral striped cotton linking a one piece puff sleeved top with a skirt. Another offers ticking fabric with a square neck puff sleeved frock and matching shorts. Tennis fashion favors dresses over shorts with white pique rayon or linen, knee length skirts.
Designers praise the white jersey for practicality, smart appearance, and versatile draping. A costume trial promises slenderizing fit and tactile appeal, with white rayon fabrics shining after a rub to a snow white finish that many women desire.
Diamond earrings, especially diamond and ae stones, rise in importance as a fashion accent for every outfit.
A designer Burmel releases four handkerchiefs featuring Mark Twain's Mississippi, Covered Wagon, Mount Vernon, and Landing of the Pilgrims. Each vivid tableaux sits against floral borders, highlighted by a collector pictured with the Pilgrims design.
Hollywood star Charles Coburn drives a cross over to theater, linking Mohawk Drama Festival style work with university backing. Ann Sothern reshapes her career toward meaningful roles, while Loretta Young David Niven and others shine in Walter Wanger projects awaiting release.
A breezy guide to cooling beverages including iced tea, ginger julep, spiced syrup, frosted grape juice ade, iced coffees, and party punches. Recipes detail mint sprigs, lemon rind, crushed ice, and sugared rims. Also promotes a cookbook, Better Baking, with mailing offer from Eleanor Howe in Chicago.
Upgrading unused upstairs space into a modern laundry is feasible with bright paint. Off the kitchen laundries are a growing trend in new homes with compact washers that self-empty. Ironing can be streamlined with table top ironing surfaces and kitchen-sized washers.
Electricity powered vacuum cleaners replace rug beating once used on clotheslines and grass. The device reduces dust and labor while cutting dusting time across countless homes.
Practical advice on organizing a household refrigerator to keep foods safe. Plan what goes in and out, avoid prolonged door opening, and ensure cooked foods are cooled before storage to prevent temperature rises. The tips emphasize energy efficiency and reducing heat buildup in the fridge.
A description details a bed room painted in daffodil yellow with paler yolk tones, white woodwork, a low ceiling, and thin orange accents to brighten a poorly lit space.
A practical tip recommends saving dishcloths by using a medium sized cork dipped in pouring powder to polish paring knives and other cutlery, providing a simple home method.
In Quiltmaking fun, the Enchanted Cottage block uses bright scraps for the house and plain materials for shrubbery with outline stitching. Pattern 6384 includes the block chart pattern pieces color schemes making directions yardage chart and illustration. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th St New York NY with your name address and pattern number.
Household advice covers preserving meat with vinegar, rustproofing tinware by larding and oven heating, using underripe fruit for jellies for better texture, and changing beds by swapping bottom and top sheets to refresh more often.
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