Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1931 — Page 12

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SMART MADE-OVER FROCKS FASHIONED FOR GIRL OF 12

Remaking of Sports Suit Found Easy Tb 12-vear-eld drl need not be u; le* mart because she Is wearing a m * - * p '***r costume. Ways to remodel clothes tor the rosng fashionable are described In the following article, the fonrtb In a aeries which has been written for The Times and NEA Service bv Mrs. Annette Guth, nationally known sewing expert. BY MRS. ANNETTE GUTH Dressmaking Consultant for the Home Making Center. New York. "Written lor NEA Service J\A AKING clothes over for the 12-year-old or so Is the hardest f yp® of remodeling, but It can be done successfully. The reasons it Is hard are these: Adolescent girls are extremely sensitive about their clothes, Just becoming dress-conscious as they are, and they shrink from having folks know it is mother’s dress or older sister’s suit they are wearing. At this age girls like clothes exactly like their school girl chums are "earing; a standardized taste is theirs. Want “Older” Clothes Last but not least, they are tired of the simple, childish, wash things they have been wearing, are envious of older sister’s pretties and yearn for sophisticated apparel. Often you can rip, turn, clean or wash a dress of your own or an older sister’s suit and re-cut it in a 12-year pattern, perfectly. Don’t try to make over a dress scanty in its material that is rather cut-up already in its original guise. Use such a frock for a drop skirt to another dress, for trimming, or for a little jacket. In remaking tilings for the adolescent, try to pick a model to go by that has a touch of sophistication supplied by the trimming, the zig-zag cut of yokes or front closing, or the sleeves. Young girls need oimple silhouettes, simple necklines, simplicity throughout, as a matter of fact. Remake Sports’Suit You can remake almost any sports suit you have for your young daughter or sister in the original lines, by just cutting it smaller all over. But don’t try to use over fitted garments or printed things, without careful consideration. Their very fabric may be too grown-up and sophisticated for her. An excellent way to make over a plain crepe, semi-sheer wool, a jersey, flannel or tweed frock in monotone is to plan a one-piece frock, utilizing the idea of skirt yoke and pleats to give fullness below it. If you are short of material, often you can piece the waist to the hipyoke under the belt, and even let in the material for the pleats, pressing them in so the seams won’t show. Sleeves can be cut in one, in the new raglan mode, or they can be set in. They can be pieced, I too, with the top long and fairly I straight and a little puff or deep | cuff stitched on to finish out. Tunic Idea Helps If you want to make over Ann’s own frocks from last year and she has lengthened so it seems hopeless, have you thought of the tunic theme? It is fertile with ideas. Buy a yard or a little over of plain material if the frock is printed -or printed if the frock is plain. Make a drop skirt, with the lower part of this new material, open the side front seam and let the new material make a little panel up there and add a simple little onesided scarf of the new material. The too-short sleeves can be given the requisite new length by cuffs of the new material or even puffs and cuffs of it. This is an excellent way to use a left-over silk coat to one of mother’s or sister’s last year's ensembles. also. It is one of the easiest ways to utilize any type of garment. Last but not least we come to the way to use up last year’s bolero that mother or older sister has tired of, or has slightly outworn. Bolero Should Be Short You probably have material enough to pleat the skirt, or put it on a yoke, if it is circular, by cutting out the worn back section and still haring enough for the •12-year-old. Make the bolero childishly short and with little cap sleeves and then give the little one a madeover little blouse with a touch of sophistication in the collar-tie neckline. This suit can be navy blue, brown, green, or any plain color, with white blouse or a very fancy material with a plain colored blouse. Do give her r grown-up belt, with buckle, for it v. 11l endear the whole suit to her. This is a year when you can utilize a left-over coat by cutting

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MOTHER’S CLOAK REMODELED FOR SCHOOL GIRL

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Chic frocks for the adolescent can be made by remodeling mother’s or sister’s clothes or making over children’s. Left to Right—By a sophisticated touch in the pointed closing, pointed front panel and cuffs, a last year’s frock can be made over to delight 12-year-old Betty.

it down and making a little plaid gingham, silk or wool frock for the 12-year-old to wear with it. You can use up a skirt by making a suspender dress or a jumper out of it. You can remake your old spring coat into a jacket reefer for her. Remember though that even if the 12-year-old has different waists to wear with a bolero, or a jumper or a suspender and skirt outfit, the clothes that are suitable for this age invariably are the entire-outfit kind of clothes. By that I mean that to give a little girl just a skirt and separate waist and expect her to like it is ridiculous. Her friends are all wearing dresses. You can make it into one by contriving suspenders or a wee coat or a jumper. Tomorrow: Old things made new for the small boy and girl.

Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

-p|R. RICHARD BURTON of Columbia university speaks a belated word for the small town club woman and says that she is responsible for America’s cultural coming of age. t She is responsible, too, for making the small town a decent place in which to live. Prior to organisation and expansion of the club movement, rural culture consisted mainly in crochet and gossip. Today you will find in most places alert, charming and intelligent women who know a good deal about what is going on in the world and are eager to learn more. Their club contacts have given them their chief intellectual interests. Many who were denied a college education have been educated by this means. And in practically every small town in this country the women far outshine the men in mental alertness. That’s because men have ceased to improve their minds. They do not care to change their mental attitudes. tt a ft NOVEL reading strikes them as ridiculous. Good music is something for only long-haired, eccentric artists. “The Stag at Bay ’ is their idea of a first-class painting. Keeping up with the stock market and sustaining a good golf score satisfies them. Indeed, the chief reason why the woman of today fast is getting ahead of the men is because she is not satisfied with what she knows, and they are. Nearly all solid cultural improvements in small towns are first agitated and then put over by women. They raise money for libraries. start music clubs. They bring high-class entertainment" and lunch all moves for city beautii *ion. In spite of rhis, the men laugh at them. They are highly amused at these striving-; after culture. Nevertheless, already these women taste a deep i^tisfaction and cooler * that men do not have. F r knowledge is a shield against ' he slings of arrows of outrageous fortune,”

Card Parties

Brotherhood of American Yeomen will hold a card party and dance at 8 Friday at 310 Castle Hall building. OLD 'COIN’ SILVER LIGHT, GRACEFUL An interesting collection of silverware can sometimes be picked up in small, out-of-the-way jewelry shops, especially if you want something to go with early American furniture. Look over the old pieces of “coin” silver (the "coin” mark was the same as “sterling” nowadays), especially spoons. Graceful in shape, light, and usually perfectly plain except for some old-time ifUtials or inscription, they make charming teaspoons.

With tunics in vogue, a last year’s printed frock that Nancy has outgrown can be made big enough and very smart remodeled into a tunic, with a drop skirt, let in finish and cuffs of contrasting material. Mother’s last year’s silk suit will make an adorable bolero for Rosette, if the sleeves are cut short and a smart belt added.

Central Choir Will Present Music Program The choir of Indiana Central college, directed by Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs, will present a musical program at the college of education at Butler university today. The selections will be both sacred and secular. Special numbers will be given by Maurice Shadley and Robert Cossleman, trombonists: Miss Irma Chambers and Robert Durham, violinists; Miss Virginia Aettly, soprano soloist, and Mrs. Burroughs. Miss Julia Good will be the accompanist. EXTRA BELT IS ‘DIFFERENT TOUCH The touch of color that every spring costume has to have is often very smartly found in a belt. And an extra supply of these in different colors can turn one costume into several. A navy coat, for example, that has its own navy fabric belt, can change to a bright red one of patent leathr. Or a narrow leather belt in w'hite, with a white scarf at the neck, is another good accent. OLD TYPE LAMP IN REVIVAL FAD Those lamps with glass bowls and pewter bases that you’re seeing in so many fashionable homes these days really are a revival of the typical lamp used In Colonial days. They are good copies, too. Topped with a simple parchment or pleated chintz shade, they look well in almost any room. ‘DOG ¥6 MATCH’ IS NEWEST FASHION How’ far the fashion for ensembling all parts of the costume is going to go is hard to tell. It seems to have reached its height in the costume noted the other day in a well-known hotel lobby. There were two parts to this ensemble—lady and dog. The lady wore a deep maroon colored dress and hat with a beaverish brown fur coat. The dog matched the coat color . . . and the dog leash was maroon!

KENTUCKY GIRL WED TO CITY MAN

Miss Opal Tinsley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Tinsley, Bowling Green, Ky., became the bride of Harry T. Shoemaker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shoemaker, Indianapolis, in a ceremony Feb. 17 at Holy Cross church. The couple are at home at 326 Leeds avenue.

Mrs. Shoemaker —Photo by Northland.

Personals

George G. Davis of Indianapolis is spending the winter months at Lakeland, Fla. He is at home at 2301 South Florida avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Griffith hfc.ve returned to Indianapolis after a two years’ absence and are at home at 3025 North Meridian stret. Mrs. Charles Sedwick, Mrs. Griffith’s mother, Detroit, formerly of Indianapolis, is visiting her. WHITE GLOVES OF PIGSKIN SMARTEST So important has become the fashion for gloves, that special sports gloves need a place in your spring and summer plans. Pigskin is the fashionable material and white the smartest color. If the sports ensemble is brown and white, choose your white pigskin gloves with brown stitching or piping. Or with other color combinations, white with black stitching is the thing. Emera Club to Meet Emera Club at 8 Friday at the home of Miss Margaret Albertsmeyer, 1633 Wade street.

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Irvington Union Will Name Heads A nominating committee was appointed Wednesday at a meeting of the Irvington Union of Clubs, held at the home of Mrs. Charles M. Cunningham, 60 North Audubon road. This committee, Mrs. George Buck, chairman; Mrs. Byron Demaree and Miss Anna Lott, will announce their selections March 25, the day of election. Announcement was made at the meeting of forthcoming productions sponsored by the children’s entertainment committee by Mrs. Otto Gripe, chairman: Navajo Indians at 1:30 Saturday, March 7, at the George W- Julian school, and two plays, ‘one of which, “When the Strikes Twelve,” was written by Miss Marcia Doan, a former resident of Irvington, to be held at the Irvington Presbyterian church, March 14. Members of the children’s committee are Mesdames James Loomis, Louis Kirkhoff, Robert Drum, W. G. Gingery, John Paul Ragsdale and G. H. Lanham. Discussion included an expression by Irvington parents in favor ' of an east side classical high school. A committee, Mrs. Clarence iHughel, Mrs. Kenneth Badger and Mrs. John Kingsbury, was named to co-operate with the Irvington Garden Society in planning a series of flower shows this summer. TEA IS GIVEN BY HARPISTS 9 CHAPTER Indiana Chapter of Harpists entertained with a tea Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Louisa Schellschmidt Koehne, 2917 Washington boulevard, in honor of Miss Marie Macquerrie and members of her harp ensemble who have completed a week’s engagement at the Indiana theater. t Mrs. Koehne was assisted by Mrs. Bertha Gehr Miller, Mrs. Alberta McCain Gaunt and Mrs. Arthur Oberholtzer. ALTRUSA CLUB TO HEAR SCIENCE TALK G. A. Boyle, engineer with the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, will speak on “Economics and Scientific Research” at the luncheon meeting of the Altrusa Club Friday at the Columbia Club. Mr. Boyle will tell of the highly organized research and engineering departments necessary to efficient telephone service. Miss Minnie Springer is chairman of the program committee. PARTY, SHOWER TO BE GIVEN BRIDE Mrs. W. Rollin Nusbaum, who was formerly Miss Alice McGinnis, will be honored at a bridge party and miscellaneous shower to be given Friday night by Mrs. Frank B. Nusbaum, 5526 University avenue. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. McGinnis, 3418 Salem street. She will be honored at a party to be given soon by Miss Mary Kinneman of Lebanon. KELIM RUGS ARE GOOD FOR SUMMER Sometime when you’re looking for a good summer rug, ask to see a Kelim (pronounced Keylimb). These originally were Turkish saddle blankets and are something like a Navajo Indian blanket in texture, but a little lighter in weight. They make good, hard wearing, attractive rugs for the summer home and are comparatively inexpensive. Music to Be Topic Miss Pauline Schellschmidt will speak on “Musical Pilgrimages to Munich and Vienna” Friday night at a meeting of the Chansonette Club at the home of Miss Jean Goldsmith, 3620 Washington boulevard.

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What’s in Fashion?

Coats That Look Like Dresses

Directed By AMOS PARRISH

SPRING COATS WITH DRESS DETAILS! Left, a belted coat with yoke and scarf closing. Right, a wrapped coat with button fastening and cowl draping of flat fur.

NEW YORK. Feb. 26.—There’ll be many a coat this spring that will look so much like a dress it actually could be w’orn for one! And there’ll be hardly any coat that doesn’t have some detail about it that’s a detail you find on dresses. This “dress-look” in coats is something to watch for when you’re doing your spring shopping. Because most-in-fashion coats have it. And the morea coat looks like a dress the smarter it is. Just the way the coat looks when it’s on—its silhouette—is like a dream. Most of them wrap well over to the left side, giving the effect of a dress skirt. And they fit softly and easy—as a dress does. Belted Like Dress Along with this wide wrap-over often goes the surplice or diagonal closing line in the upper part that you find in so many dresses. The fashionable spring coat is belted at the waistline like a dress. A tailored belt, perhaps, like the one a tailored dress has. Or a softer, girdle-like belt, or a sash that’s inserted at the waistline like a band. Often these coats fasten below the belt with a group of buttons, such as you frequently see on dresses. You can see this arrangement in the sketch at the right. Collars Are Smaller When you come to look at the collar sections of coats, you’ll find them growing very much like- dress ollars. Smaller collars—that’s what you’ll notice first of all. Some of them very narrow' roll collars like the collars of tailored dresses. Others with scarfs that you tie in all manner of interesting ways—in cravat style, with a bow at the side, or just thrown carelessly over the shoulders. Sleeves are another point wliere coats resemble dresses. One of the newest spring coat sleeves is the one that widens out, bell-shaped, at the bottom—just like lots of dresses. Use Flap Effect Others have wide envelope flap i effects placed above a close-fitting j under cuff, or puffs at the elbow or j

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details or appliques and stitching and many more of the decorations you find on dress sleeves. The tw r o coats sketched illustrate very clearly what is meant by the “dress-look” of spring coats. The one at theh left, with its yoke top and nonchalantly tied scarf—isn’t that exactly the way the necklines of many dresses look? Os course it is. The sleeve, too—the wliole fit of the coat, in fact—is like a driss. Coat or Dress? As for the coat at the right—count the number of dress details it has. (1) The cowl-draped collar of flat fur. (2) The surplice closing line. (3) The belted waistline. (4) The button fastening. (5) The wide wrapover. Small wonder if you aren’t able to tell whether you’re w’earing a coat or a dress this spring! Copyright. 1931. by Amos Parrish Next: Amos Parrish writes on the fashion of Queen Anne furniture.

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Speaker Is Named for Convention Mrs. S. N. Campbell, program chairman for the League of Women Voters’ state convention, to be held here in March at the Columbia Club, has announced that William M. Leieserson of Antioch college will be speaker at the banquet, the first day of the conference. His subject will be “Stabilizing Unemployment.” Tentative dates for the meeting have been set for March 25 and 26 A luncheon will be held March 26 and “Probation in Juvenile Courts * will be discussed by Judge Charles W. Hoffman, Cincinnati. “Economic Aspects of World Peace” is another subject planned for discussion, the speaker to be announced later. A dinner for local league presidents will be held the night of March 24. CHURCH SOCIETY GIVES LUNCHEON More than 120 guests were entertained by the Martha Hawkins society of the First Baptist church at a birthday luncheon held Wednesday in the church. Tables were decorated to represent different months in the year. The program included the reading of “Madame Sans Gene,” by Mrs Alice Baxter Mitchell: Songs by Mrs. Glen O. Friermood, accompanied by Mrs. A. C. Garrigus. Mrs. Williams Ray Adams was general chairman, assisted by Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, and a committee of hostesses. SORORITY TO HOLD FIRST RUSH FETE Phi Gamma Tau sorority will hold the first of a series of rush parties at 8 Friday night at the home of Mrs. Robert Schwarzer, 5511 Winthrop avenue. Guests of the sorority will include; Mesdames Ellis Sisson, Joseph Eisen, Prank Christopher, George Keckler, Robert Kennedy; Misses Pearl Neff, Mary Moncrlef, Kathleen Edwards and Ima Clapp.

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