Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1918 — GRAY MATTER AND CLOTHES [ARTICLE]

GRAY MATTER AND CLOTHES

How a Smart Girt Copi£| Hat She Saw in Shop Window, Making a Most Clever Reproduction. Read about these two clevter things that one girl did whose allowance for clothes was nothing what it should have been, which only goes to prove that pocketbooks don’t always make smart clothes and that gray matter has a lot to do with it. She saw a hat she liked in a smart shop window. It was a tricorn, with the most adorable trimming cockades on each of the three sides. But she couldn’t afford it. However, she went straightway and bought a plain silk tricorn and then proceeded to copy those fetching little cockades. She painted a wooden button mold with some gilt paint, then covered It with some dainty figured chiffon. The result was that of an enameled ornament. She then used some long yellow and black beads, which she had on hand, and arranged them around the button as spokes in a wheel, backing the whole thing, with a plaiting of the folded chiffon. ~ This same girl did wonders to a plain blue chiffon blouse, designed to be worn with a dark blue suit, but npt quite dressy enough as it stood when bought.