Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1946 — Page 30

aris Hankies Are Back on The Counters

Pre-War Kerchiefs Hidden From Nazis

Paris - imported handkerchiefs — hidden from the Nazi invaders in a score of French farm houses, behind shops and in cellars throughout the war—are appearing on the - Christmas gift market. The first large-scale shipment since the war is on counters in some 130 stores throughout the country—— in Indianapolis at Wasson's and Ayres’. Pre-war stock, the story behind this first peace-time shipment is the thrilling triumph of French craftsmen over the Nazi invader. Some 925 cases of kerchiefs, hurriedly packed in the threatened Paris of 1940 .and intended for safe-keeping in the U. S., missed the last boat from Bordeaux: The ingenious French, members and employees of the Bloch Freres firm, divided the shipment into small lots and ,hid them from the invaders. Some were secreted in the North of France; some in the South; others in the Vosges mountains. Out of Hiding Now they have come out of hid- | ing. Only one of the original 25 | cases is lost. All the rest are here for gift-hungry Americans. Obvious at once in this collection of pre-war elegance is the fine

Make hers a "White Christmas’ with the new all-white jewelry. A particularly lovely example of this new style is Castlecliff's

Dazzle Marks Apparel Gifts For the Gals

Hints for the Man With Checkbook

By NEA Service NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The dazzle of this season's fashions, any eyeful of which may call for dark glasses, focuses its fullest rays on Christmas gifts of apparel marked for the gals. Even nylons, which at least one manufacturer claims will fill a portion of the demand of holiday shoppers, step into the razzle-dazzle with flirtatious tattoo designs indelibly inked on at knee or ankle. Christmas-marked negligees and slippers—always near the top of the list of every man who can take a hint—rival the fireworks of a shooting star. Almost as phenomenal, too, are slippers of gold kid, for example, which Delman designs with. curling toes like a harem queen's. Many of the super-glamorous hostess gowns owe their splendor “to two pleces—a sheath of crepe topped by a sleeveless floor-length coat of brocade. : New Jewelry

Sparklers that attract shoppers to accessory counters are sequin-lit

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Ha Antoine, master beautician, again highlights the holiday season's .gift suggestions with this exquisitely fitted travel kit. Roomy enough for a week-end bag, it is simulated in either black or brown alligator and

|The Budget

N eedlework Gifts Stretch

Hand Wrought Gifts Represent Luxury

By NEA Service Needle-worked or hand-sewn lovelies represent the luxury of rarity in a machine age and in a country of mass production. ; That's why you can thriftily fill in the gaps of a Christmas list with almost fabulous gifts, if you make them yourself. That's why in a year of shortages and high-priced merchandise the needlework counters are scenes of! big booms, fashionable pattern books are thumbed ragged, and buyers who anticipated all of this and laid in ample supplies look and act smug. ; For Glamour Gals

Knitters «are tackling everything from Argyle socks to sweaters that are healed for the smart ski-tralls, the buyers report. Needles are devouring yarn by the box to make infants’ sun-suits, bed jackets and

Personally yours . +

THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1946 A Personalized Lipstick

IS THERE someone on. your Ohristmas gift list whom you particularly wish to please with an individualized gift? Here's the solution to your problem. Mary Dunhill is presenting a new addition to milady’s cosmetic wardrobe . . . a personalized lip stick with the giftee's own initials in metal or golden tones, put on at the cosmetic counter while you wait, The’ lipstick case comes in four color combinations — black and gold, red and gold, white and gold, and two-toned golden metal. The lipstick itself comes in the seven Dunhill luster shades. These are expected at Charles Mayer's in time for Christmas giving. It's the Mary Dunhill line which includes those “clever perfume flacons (for carrying in the handbag) called Scentinels. A small, round, flat flask is covered by gold - or - silver ~ finished metal which looks like a watch case, Not only may these be monogrammed (fine for bridesmaids’ gifts), but they may be accompanied by a tiny funnel to help transfer the perfume from a big bottle to the Scentinel,

boots, bonnets and gloves, and ballet slippers for grown-ups. When the knitter’'s last thread is snipped, out comes her saucerful of | silver bird sequins that light up| Cinderella hoods, headbands and) evening bags for the glamour gals|

The Costume Jewelry Business Reaches Quarter-Billion Size

By BARBARA BUNDSCHU

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wreath necklace of imported b

weaving, the exquisite yarns, the microscopically minute hand point- | of-Beauvais embroideries, scarcely! possible of duplication today in a] market almost devoid of fine yarns and hand-craftsmanship. Hand-Blocked Designs The whole fashion trend of handkerchiefs may be considered to have been changed by the advent of the | firm of Bloch Freres. When in 1919 the firm was founded in Paris, handkerchiefs were for the most part a matter of conventional white squares, except for the traditional

heirloom laces which figured in bri- a

dal and courtly acquistions, { From the year Bloch Freres | opened their Paris office, the firm! introduced one novelty after an-| other. Brilliant colored handblocked handkerchiefs, now an accepted daily item, were introduced by them. Many designs were executed by the same French artists who paint important canvases. In this first peace-time shipment, unusual subtle and exuberant colors in hand-blocked designs, floral and geometric, appear in a diversity of color and design arrangements. Clipped-cord white and colored bordered styles and corded borders in white are also among them.

Mary Chess Helps With Gift List

_ * Mary Chess, creator of so many unusual and distinctive items, has, fhis year, planned wisely and well to help you with your gift problems. Hor Roman Bath Oils, unquestioned choice for the woman who loves luxurious bath appointments, are a must on any Christmas list. Individual bottles of the heavily scented toilet water or the exquisite perfumes will win ‘approval from any girl from 16 to 60. Another charming gift is the sachet with the straw flower bouquet — or perhaps a silver pillbox containing cream perfume — or the famous chessboard boxes holding toilet water and a choice of lacetrimmed sachets. :

All these enchanting gifts are available (at Ayres’ or Wasson's) in five fragrances — White Lilac, Tapestry, Strategy, Carnation and Gar-

denia. '

rilliants set in platinum-finished

sterling. Earrings to match. The bracelets are flexible bands of brilliants with a center section of larger brilliants and diamond shaped groups of stones. (Ayres'.)

The Debutante Set Is Happy If Its Holiday Packages

Hold Conversation Pieces

One sure way to make the debuta

nte set happy as it unwraps holiday

packages is to have those packages hold gifts that are conversation

pieces as well as presents.

Take, for example, Volupte's new compacts. Ayres’ they're showing Volupte's carry-all portmanteau. solidly-constructed-for-lifetime-wear case,

At both Block's and It features, in a change purse, comb,

rouge, creamed lipstick, powder compact and cigaret compartment. In unadorned metal it costs with engine turned and jeweled versions| ranging upward. Another new design by Volupte is the hand compact. Of gleaming golden metal, it is fashioned on both sides into the exact shape of a feminine hand, and, in spite of its daintiness, there is] ample space. Called “Golden Gesture,” it 1s shown at Ayres’ in several versions ~—one with unadorned hand, others with the hand wearing a ring, a hracelet, or both. The jeweled verrions are higher, of course. ¢ * » ” Another conversation piece that's been going great guns since its introduction this fall is Lucien LeLong's Tie Tac Toe set of lipsticks—three of them cleverly } packaged in a very convenient leather case. They have the set at Wasson's as well as at other stores. Tic Tac Toe holds three lipstick coldrs. . . Corsaire, for townwear to complement the new fern green shades; Dianthus, for a subtle accent to the brown costume;

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and Black Tulip, deep, dark and

$10 | daring, to go places after dark with "| dressy black outfits.

” » » And what girl doesn‘t- dote on perfumes and colognes? A clever way lo give this scentsible gift is in Helena Rubinstein’s eau de toilette trio— available at Block's and other i sales counters j¢ handling RubinfF. stein toiletries. Caged in sparkling acetate with gold-stud-ded bars are bottles three—of springtime-fresh Apple Blossom; blend-of-flowers Heaven-Sent and sparkly-alive Town toilet waters.

‘More Cosmetic Sets ‘This Christmas This year there will be more com{bination sets of cosmetics, because wartime restrictions on packaging have been eased. And this means tnat inexpensive sets are back, too There's one, for instance, that will set the buyer back only a dollar, plus tax. Labeled “Loveliness for You,” it's a daintily decorated box in pink, blue and gold, speckled with white and ‘gold stars, and containing 25cent sizes of four products. These are Jergens hand lotion,

[face cream, powder and Morning {Glory cologne — a light, flowery

fragrance that makes friends with

all women, young and old alike.

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{cases are platina gems that look

sweaters and headband-and-belt' sets, and new metallic hoods. New gimmicks in jewelry show-|

features a gigantic mirror. The smaller cosmetic kit: fits compactly into the larger case and contains all the toilet requisites necessary Yo keep the owner looking her best from sun-up to sun-down, (Wasson's.)

for all the world like precious stuff but don't cost as much, and bold gold-washed “bicycle clips” with hearts attached. The idea behind these is thdt a

(on her list. | Crochet addicts, looking for new fashion fields in which to triumph, |are making accessories overlaid to | the - hilt with gilt thread and jeweled touches. Stamped Patterns Back

| Cross-stitching is in for the hig-

girl can wear her heart on her! sleeve or swing it from her neck, if | she wants to encircle it with the clip-styled choker.

Fur Accessories

liest girl into a flirt.

heap of smart new ‘things,

Piled up with elegant pelts—mink, sable, leopard and ermine—are bags, muffs, scarves and even fans to tempt the shopper who is shopping for a lady on his list.

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which is Maximillidn-designed for! matching fabric.

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suite—a wonThe massive sofa is a stretch of elegance well over six The chair is huge. Built with buoyant tempered steel spring construction. Covered in superb fabrics, in the colors of rich deep jewels. And delivery quaranteed for your holiday home!

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Furry accessories make up in sweater-and-glove classics and trick| chi-chi what they lack in glitter. | booties in two-toned yarn which slip |look like a lot, local sewing cenon but are hand-crocheted to look |ters teach tricks of converting remas though there were lacings in! nants or sewing-box scraps

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CHRISTMAS!

gest boom in years.

of materials can fly again

Needles lying the purpose of turning the saint- idle during the war years for lack into The shopper in search of prac- stamped patterns, for making rugs tical gifts can pick from the woolen | and footstool pads, because seleclike | tive designs are on counters again. Aiding women to make a little

into | pert hostess -aprons, skating hel-| Practical, too — but with what|mets for children or shoe bags for painted plastic dime store items (la- | airs — is a flock of new umbrellas, | travelers, which can be labeled as Done up for Christmas is a black made to look like a dandy’s swag-' such by embroidery or personalized lace fan, trimmed with ermine tails, |ger-stick with cane-slim sheaths of for the lucky lady on a list with | needleworked monograms or initials.

United Press Staff Correspondent PROVIDENCE, R. I, Nov. 28.—Americans spent 34 cents per capita for costume jewelry in 1936, but they're expected to put out $1.13 apiece this year for dime store to jewelry shop wares worth a quarter of a billion dollars. The increase is less a sign of inflation than an indication of the terrific rise in the| fashion importance of non-precious| making real gold jewelry with semi. jewelry and what Gerald E, Rosen- | precious and some precious stones, berger, president of Coro, Inc. but no diamonds. chooses to cal] the “democratiza-| Fashjon has made the costume tion” of jeweled adornment. { Jewelry businéss, Rosenberger Coro, which figures it will make | points out, with an increased de« 16 per cent (by dollar value) of the mand for ornamentation to comvear's all-time high production, says plement a costume rather than to its best selling item today is a show off karat wealth, It also dice Handsome, modest-sized gold colored tates its design, pow, knotted with brilliants, which] Bow knots, button earrings, is priced at $1 for a pin, another §1| hearts and flowers go on forever. for matching earrings. But there's a definite shift in shape That's from jewelry ranging from! preference in many jewelry items. The dress designers’ hark back to beled Eastern jewelry) to jeweled medieval inspiration has made gold (both imitation, but convine- daggers, coats of arms, chatelaines ing) and silver trinkets with a top and epaulets most popular of eurprice around $35. The firm is also rent designs.

We're bursting with gift ideas. Ramble through the store and you'll find fiw answer fo every uestion, the perfect choice for everyone on your oy Big giving at little price . . . and to keep the Christmas spirit in your budget . . . remem ber the convenience of paying on easy ferms — up to a whole year, as little as $1.25 weekly

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