Cotton bag fashions spark thrifty wartime crafts
Readers are invited to transform cotton flour bags into hundreds of wearable garments and home items. The guide promotes dyeing bags, rick rack trims, and patriotic reuse to conserve fabrics, with a Western Newspaper Union booklet offering step by step ideas.
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Salad Buffet Ideas and Fresh Spring Dressings
Readers get a spring kitchen guide with salad buffet ideas using crisp greens and seasonal fruits. Recipes cover Shrimp Salad Macaroni Salmon Salad and multiple dressing variations, plus a note to request a meat roasting chart from Lynn Chambers via Western Newspaper Union.
Print Accents Elevate Costume with Polka Dot Ensemble
A new styling idea uses print to coordinate accessories with the main outfit. A polka dot blouse pairs with matching gloves and wool suit inserts at the shoulders to create a unified, newsworthy look.
Taffeta Accessories Brighten Simple Styles This Season
Fashion notes introduce taffeta accents to elevate basic suits and gowns. Plaid check and stripe taffeta brighten outfits with items such as Roman stripe weskit, bias-cut sun-back blouse, and bold bow ties. Gloves bags and hats in matching taffeta headline the look.
Gingham Fashion Notes For All Occasions This Season
You can dress up or down in gingham this season with black and white checks and a low cut decolletage yoke. A gypsy scarf at the hips, glittering beads, and vivid gingham shirts pair with sports slacks. Gingham hats bags and gloves rise in fashion rank for suits and dresses.
Barbara Bell Pattern 1936 for sizes eleven to nineteen
Barbara Bell pattern number 1936 designed for sizes 11 13 15 17 and 19. Size 13 with short sleeves requires 314 yards of 39 inch material and 2 yards of ribbon.
Salad tips from ancient cultures and modern prep
Lynn Says: Give Yourself Health. Ancient Egyptians favored onions and garlic in salads while Romans enjoyed chicory and lettuce. Key cues for a good salad include well chilled, attractively arranged ingredients and the right dressing.
Handy Home Hacks From a Past Era
Simple frugal tips for domestic upkeep include sewing a pocket into a pillowcase to hold a handkerchief, repainting old tobacco containers as yarn storage, darned carpet repairs with matched rug wool, using a worn anklet as a cover for a wax applicator, and finishing fabric edges with rickrack stitched over a turned edge.
Monument of Stones From States and Foreign Lands
A 50 foot shaft in Kissimmee Florida Lake Front park is built from stones gathered from all states and regions such as India Palestine Egypt South Africa Turkey Greece and Iran It has 21 tiers topped by a three foot sphere with a concrete American eagle and a 20 foot flag staff bearing Old Glory The project is supported by local townspeople who collected the stones
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