Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1942 — Page 7
"Dyn Hide Your Face And Figure Faults’ Says Designer, Towing Rules
By MARGUERITE YOUNG “+ %. Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Winifred Davis is one designer who “goes;
agin the crow Rif | her clients are con soft-pedaling
She ‘breaks deliberately (and successfully, as far as 2d) the rules you've beard all these years about 50-CH led: figure and face “faults” by camouflaging them
with the line and ¢ color of your clothes.
In short, if you fo counterbalance lines. These emph interesting than dull perfection. If one of her clients insists on | may lop-sided apples. : classic still-life. ly. these . fine sound, round ones from clared. “Those are just whole. ‘personal. v
face is narrow, your neck long and thin, don’t try hem ‘with horizontal lines. them and, says Winifred, maki
V neckyou more
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a dress to hide a fault Miss Davis
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ous apples, being Cezanne’s
are more Interests g than a slick photograph
Imperial Valley,” Miss Davis deThese are something—well, some-
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s REASON ING persuades Miss Davis that any American wom-
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th one good little dressmaker or her own skilled fingers, and a
good lidea of what [she wants to look | like, can “design” for herself. ‘That is, she can arrive at a pretty clear mental picture of the colors and espedially the patterns that will make her not pertect, but often exciting, and always interesting. Revealing womep to themselves ' through their clothes is Winifred Davis’ peculiar talent as a constructive designer. She dresses social ‘workers, Philadelphia society girls, womén who have professional ard gftal hostess roles in Washington, newspaper and magazine
These women’s I budgets and clothing confidence are less than you'd suppose—which doesn’t phase the dressmaker. "An editor, size 48, asked Miss Davis, “Aren’t we big women supposed to play? There's nothing to fit me, ready made, but black dresses with armholes down to the waist. Can't I go to the country?” She did go—with a gold suede jacket ithat discovered, for her, her
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. 3 t The round-faced girl should not wear a round neck, the Nong- :
faced one mustn’t don the popular plunging neckline-—so say convene .
tional rules of dress. But Winifred Davis has built a successful dressmaking business by reversing conventions. She drew these sketches
to liilustrate her point. In the diagram above, round-faced girl at right
with green flannel slacks which said, “I'm big and I'm strong and so what?” All that woman needed, to wear pants gracefully, was to have their derriere lifted. An advertising woman came into the Davis studio after a dismal date. She had spent three days fussing, between times at work, with
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Tig dremmaker stuied gown and gir}, pulled ot 3 scrap of goods and made a ruffled apron which gave the\dress a merry-but-shy little girl in pinafore spirit. In this the girl went forth. She wore, too, a head-dress which Miss Davis had concocted while she changed. The head-dress was a fey fresh string beans standing straight up behind
four plump red radishes. Nobody dozed at THAT party.
yeas round neckline and round yoke, and that’s CORRECT, in Miss opinion, whereas the same girl, wearing a deep V (left) is ONG. In diagram shown at right, the girl with long face and neck, wearing a round collar, is WRONG:;’ for her the long-lined gown is RIGHT. Miss Davis’ motto is “Follow your natural ines. Emphasize them and you'll look interesting.”
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“tricked out—and sO dog tired and hence aull, that her partner fell asleep. She was aboitt to start to another dinner, and all she knew was that she wouldn't wear the bad-luck: dress which she had brought along to the dressmaker, and she did want something in her hair, but
The technical side of dressmaking is a good half of successful clothes, she guesses. The other is—well, every Saturday afternoon will. find this dressmaker in an art gallery looking for inspiration. : 2 = = a #2 % » : “MAKING CLOTHES for others or for yourself calls for just two things,” she says. “You must know where the line of a dress should ‘hit’ the wearer; and you must look at fine things, and keep on looking at them, “The dress line that ‘hits’ right is the one which strikes true to the wearer's figure. For instance, a dress with a normal waistline must fit so that the dress waistline does ‘hit’ the womgn's own normal waistline, rather . than a line striking her where she wishes her “Strailarly, I believe in choosing patterns or designs which follow
and even emphasize the real figure and personality-facts about the
wearer. | Suppose, for instance, she had a round face and she wears ° a plunging-neck gown because ‘somebody told her it would ‘balance ‘er forn?’ She’s likely to get something that cries out she’s trying to be what she isn't, or something nondescript. But let her wear a good wide round yoke accenting her face, and discriminating people will say, ‘O, yes, the woman with the wonderfully round, small face.’ That's clistinction, and that's interesting.” If you‘are on2 who goes by the book, perhaps you'll disagree. But Miss Davis’ ideas are worth trying out—especially if you's never found that certain dress that “does something” for you.
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gold hair, with grey linen blouses acknowledging her pale skin, and
Homemaking— ! Something New to Pep Up Menus: Cheese Apple Cobbler
“THERE'S NOTHING NEW under the sun” certainly does not apply to the kitchen where the homemaker is on her culinary toes. Her menus are packed full of new ideas gleaned from the food pages of
newspapers and magazines. Something new to add to 1042 menus is Cheese Apple Cobbler. Pared and quartered apples tossed ih a mixture of sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg 5 the .beginning of a delicious dessert. Light, fluffy scone dough folled out, sprinkled with sharp yellow cheese, and coiled to form a ring makes the topping. Serve this cobbler hot from the oven, have a fat pitcher of cream . on the table to pour over all and watch it disappear from sight. For an extra treat, place scoops of ice cream over each portion. Cheese Apple Cobbler is sure to make a hit with the masculine taste for hearty food and lots of it.
CHEESE APPLE COBBLER
6 cups peeled, sliced apples (1% qu 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnarion 1; teaspoon nutmeg «1 cup grated nippy cheese 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ’ =] tablespoon sugar 4 tablespoons shortening 2 eggs % cup milk : Mix apples, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg together. Bake in a greased 8-inch casserole in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 30 minutes or until the apples are soft. Sift flour, baking powder; salt and sugar together. Cut or rub in shortening. Beat 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk, reserving . 1 white for tops. Add milk to
beaten egg ard add all to flour mix- ij
ture. “Stir only enough to make dough hold | together. Turn out pn lightly floured board and knead a half minute. Roll
dough out into rectangular sheet||
3 -inch thick. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Ro
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utes or until browned. Serve hot|I = or whipped cream, :
or cold with Yield: Serve
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BREAKFAST: Stewed dried apricots, crisp bacon, cornbread, coffee, milk.
. LUNCHEON: Cream of tomato ||
soup, roast beef sandwiches with yelish, crisp celery, apple cobbler, coffee, milk. : DINNER: Tomato juice, beef liver stew, mashed potatoes, 8-minute
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cabbage, cottage pudding, chocolate sauce, cofgee, milk, #2 x5 = Today's Recipe LEFT-OVER HAM AND VEAL PIE (Serves 4 to 6) Two cups diced cooked veal, 1 cup diced cooked ham, ¥% cup diced cooked potatoes, % cup cooked peas, 14 cup cooked carrots, % cup diced raw celery, 1%2 cups left-over gravy, salt to taste, pepper, biscuit dough. Combine meat, vegetables and gravy. Season. Heat to boiling, then turn into casserole. Cover with baking powder biscuit rounds. Bake in hot oven (450 degrees F.) until biscuits are browned and well done,
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The Question Box
Q—The long double panel doors in my living room open onto a sun porch, What. sort of curtains should I use? A—The simplest and most effective treatment is the use of glass curtains of fine net or lace, drawn tightly, with rod at top and bottom. The curtains are made very full. Q—Please give me directions for making rolled sandwiches. My daughter is to be married shortly and I want to serve them at the wedding reception. A—With a very sharp knife cut thin slices of fresh bread, ' spread thin with creamed butter and any filling desired, roll, fasten . with toothpicks and put in a cold place to set. For a wedding, each roll can be tied with narrow white ribbon. ken salad makes a good filling.
ReMove the toothpicks before serv-
the Women—
ell, If This
By RUTH MILLETT | A DECIDED HELP to wounderstanding men to know
He is smarter than his boss. He isn’t being paid what he is worth. He isn't half bad looking. He gave the little woman quite a break when he decided to marry her. (In spite of all his jokes to the contrary, he doesn’t really believe she did the deciding.) - Ruth Millett He would be leading a lot more excitihg life if he weren’t married. : He is an excellent driver; “His taste In neckties is infallible. He looks handsome -in evening clothes—or any kind of uniform. He is.generous—to a fault. 2 J » 8
: HE 18 A LITLE SMARTER than
makipg a business deal. He isn’t being Eau when he refuses to date or even dance with any woman who isn't attrace tive—no matter how much he himself lacks in the way of looks, His opinions on politics and world affairs are worth anyone’s listening to, no matter how little he reads and keeps up with what is going on. He knows exactly why his alma mater lost the game. He goes over big with waitresses
He can tell a story better than
clothes for a momentous dinner, and she had appeared finally all
Cowl Neck
Sororities—
Mu Phi Epsilon Will Hear ’ Pregram
A highlight of coming sorority meetings is a musical program planned by one group. The February program meeting of KAPPA CHAPTER, MU PHI EPSILON, national music honor sorority, will be held tomorrow evening
DEAR JANE JORDAN-—A young man has come to me and expressed his views about the girls of today and has asked me if I ‘think his opinions are correct. He is 23 years,
Mrs. Rose Ritter Heads Auxiliary
At a recent meeting of the Aux-
iliary to the Old Hickory Democratic Club the following officers were elected: Mrs. Rose Ritter, president; Mrs. Ruth Hartman, vice president; Mrs. Joséph Mentzer, | recording secretary, and Mrs. Elmer Singer, financial’ secretary. Mrs. | Mary George was re-elected freasurer. The club, which meets the first Wednesday night of each month at Hotel English, donated $10 to the Red Cross War fund at its last
, Something charming has been added! Here is a simple daytime dress made distinguished, different and flattering hy the addition of a soft cowl neckline. A feature which will he greatly appreciated by women who like simplicity marked with smart detail—and a perfect background for lovely jewels or gleaming strands of pearls. t in
‘lone with the very plain bodice, this
neckline is easily managed and youll have a dress which stands out from all the rest by its unique smartness, Pattern’ No. 8123 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 16, short sleeves, requires 4% yards 39-inch material. For this attractive pattern, send 15¢ in coin, your name, address, pattern number and size to The Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. Study our Fashion Book to find the new styles you want for your‘|eelf and your family this spring. Shows patterns for all sizes from 1 to 52. Pattern, 15¢c; [Pattern Book, 15c. One Pattern and Pattern Book ordered together 25c. Inclose 1c postage for each pattern.
Bridge Winners at Marott Hotel
Duplicate bridge winners at the Marott Hotel this week have been announced by Mrs. Dorothy Ellis, director of bridge games and classes. Messrs. Ross Campbell, Merritt Thompson, William MacDonald, Mesdames Doris Myers, F. A. Mulbarger, Larry Polson, V. R. Rupp and P, T. MacDonald were first
" |place winners in night games. Sec-
ond place winners ‘Include Mrs. Ross Campbell, Misses Jignes and Mary Ann Tynan, Messrs. Bert Shideler, Robert Wood, W, A. Myers, RB W. Lee and Thomas L. Mahaftey I. Afternoon game winners were Mésdames Arthur Pratt, Wayne Warrick, J. R. Kelley, C. J. Rusie, first and Mrs. J. S. Shortle, Mrs Kathleen Abbett, Misses Mary and Janeth Crawford, second.
Tudor Hall Principal Is in Boston
Miss I. Hilda Stewart, principal of Tudor Hall School, is in Boston attending the mid-winter meeting of the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls. She is the Mid-West vice president of the organization and is on the school and college conference committee of the assotiation which was meeting for two days before the
Saturday. Miss Stewart has been asked to
| case, she is wrong as
regular meeting, tomorrow through
at the home of Mrs. Saul Bernat, 5155 Central Ave.
The Patroness Club of the sorority will present an exchange program on which Mrs. J. A. Mathews will review “Piano Study in Germany” (Amy Fay).: Mrs. Arthur Magdsion will sing a group of German songs representing the composers Schumann, Strauss, Brahms and Wolfe. She will be accompanied by Miss Mae Engle. “Trio Miniaturen” (Paul Juon) will be presented by a string ensemble including Mesdames Leland Fishback, Homer Woods and Frank Edenharter and Miss Virginia Leyenberger. Miss Louise Swan and Miss Marion Laut of Kappa Chapter will play a two-piano arrangement of variailons on a Haydn theme.
Committees for a state day meeting to be held soon will be announced at a meeting held by INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNAE CHAPTER, DELTA ZETA, at 7:30 p. m.
tomorrow at the horffe of Mrs. Edward W. Wilson, 5543 Carrollton Ave. The business meeting will be fol lowed by a surprise party planned by Mésdames Wilson, Charles Johnson and Charles G. Rawlings, Miss Maxine Scherrer and Miss Josephine Ready.
“ “Literary Appetizers” will be tfe subject of Mrs. Bert C. McCammon when she speaks tonight in Kokomo at the annual dinner of PHI BETA PSI SORORITY to be held in the Elks Club.
A valentine party will be given Wednesday at the Woman's Department Club by GAMMA CHAPTER, OMEGA NU TAU. Hostesses will be Mesdames John Lyons, Ralph Worrell, Leota Henry ‘and. Walter Worrell.
EPSILON CHAPTER, RHO DELTA, will hold a social meeting at 6:30 p. m. today at the home of Mrs. Robert Bayne, 924 N. Hamilton Ave. A buffet supper will be served.
Miss Betty Cox, 441 N. Oakland Ave., will be hostess at 8 p. m. today for SIGMA LAMBDA CHI,
Mrs. Albert South was chairman of arrangements for the annual Sweetheart Dinner Dance given Saturday by ALPHA CHAPTER, RHO DELTA, at Whispering Winds. Assisting Mrs. South were Mrs. Jerry Gordon and Miss: Norma Schumacher. :
“Windswept” (Mary Ellen Chase) will be reviewed by Mrs, J. C. Nelson at a social meeting of ALPHA CHI CHAPTER, ALPHA OMICRON ALPHA, in the home of Mrs. Clem Church, 5321 Carrollton Ave., at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Mesdames Glen Beall, Howard Stewart, John Hammon and Francis Dixon will assist.
Frances Willard Tea
A Frances Willard Tea will be held in the home of Miss Alta Hansell, 3456 Salem St., at 2 p. m. tomorrow by Bay Laurel Union of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Devotions will bé led by Mrs. Julia Angel; Mrs. Phebe Link will speak on Medical Pemperance and members will discuss thé teachings of Miss Willard, Mrs. Mary J. Cox will pour. :
| Plan Rush Tea
old and is a nice looking fellow. He does not have a goo¥Job. He makes $18 a week for six days and a half work. He has lost faith in girls and says they aren’t to be trusted. He contends that money is the attraction not the fellow. ‘His greatest humiliation came when a girl told him that he only had spent three dollars on a date Gilly Banta’s orchestra. with her’ and asked him to forget | | her. He likes the company of girls and wants them to go places with him where a partner is required, such as dances, theaters and so forth. I suggested that he forget the girls for I felt that if marriage intentions developed he would come to grief on $18 a week, and I pointed out that he would never be able to save for a rainy day while spending money on girls. He only shook his head in despair and said that it would be too lonely. He wants the company of girls, he told me; so I am wondering what you think about his case.
JUST A READER.’ 2 un.»
Answer—You gave the young man very passive advice. There is nothing in what you suggest that would strengthen his masculinity in the] least. On the contrary, you advise him to give up, to dodge one of the major problems of life, namely; adjustment to the opposite sex. Only| a discouraged man, without faith in himself, would follow your program. For one thing you assume that he never will make more than $18 a week when man-power was never so much in demand. Why didn’t you advise him to equip himself for a more important job and pro-| duce something of service to his country in this emergency? Let him achieve something that women can admire, and perhaps they won't scorn a three dollar date. What can be more unfair than to condemn the whole feminine sex because a few girls have been disappointing? I do not deny that some girls are more interested in a man’s income than in the man, but this is by no means generally true. One has only to look at the hundreds of young married couples living’ next to nothing to realize that many girls think more of the man than money. After all a man’s ability to cope with the competition and earn an adequate living is important. A man who passively complains about his misfortunes instead of making an attack on his situation; fails to make an impression on some girls, and this does not mean that they are gold-diggers at all. It merely means that they want their men to be adequate. Advice such as yours suggests that when a man fails he should reduce his demands on himself and be content with a less ambitious program.
JANE JORDAN
Put your Srblums in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily.
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O-Del Club Dance
Rushees of the Six-Wigs-N-Wag Chapter, Sub Deb Federation, will be entertained at a formal tea Sunday at the home of Miss Barbara
A dance and card patty will be sponsored at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow by the O-Del Club at the Five-O | Five-O Clubroom at 211 N. Delaware St. Music will be provided by
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