Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1948 — Page 26

Times Sewing Contest

Fashion Forecasts Should Be Considered

: a Garment Pattern Is Selected : By ART WRIGHT

THAT THE DRESS you make for the

$1460 Times National Sewing Contest wins first prize in

‘the Indianapolis judging.

As we have already mentioned, your dress will be sent on to New York for the national finals, "and possibly for display in the fashion show which will be held June 9 in the

Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Among the top entries which will be Sisplayed the week of

Apr. 19 in a downtown Indianapolis location—!

be announced

later in The Times—we expect many dresses for summer wear. Consider what would be the most fashionable line to take from the pattern book, with relation to this summer's fashion forecast.

THE SKIRT, it. seems, will be the determining factor in summer design, and it will billow out in cool folds or unpressed pleats. If that styling is becoming to you, choose it.

If you cannot wear it full sail, do what lots of stylists are doing. They're turning out a full skirt which will be most adaptable in sizes 12 to 20. They're giving it smooth fit for the matron figure, with gored cutting over the hips. They're letting the fullness bloom out from the waistline for the springy; whip-figured Junior. One designer refers to this latter styling in cotton as three full circles of gingham, shirred on to a tiny waistline. » ” »

YOU'RE not going to be out of the swim, though, if you choose a slim-skirted pattern. When the commercial buyers went back home after doing their spring ordering, some fashion houses reported that their slim skirts had outsold full ones at the rate of four to one. The favored slims were made up in crisp butcher rayon, Irieh linens and striped cottons. But whether you look like a pencil or a bell skirtwise, in order to be stylish through the waistline, you've got to look tiny ... or as tiny as you can get. Bummer waistlines are even smaller, trimmer, tighter spring's. 8o, if you're not hendspan across the

i middle, choose a number that

can carry a boned cummerbund, a laced corselet belt or an adjustable taffeta sash.

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unfluffed shoulder section in the summer dress with the set-in. sleeve. Almost everyone will hold out for a little squaring off, however. And the cap and capelet sleeves provided by summer design will be cool enough. Here's a note for your pattern guidance, though. Padding for the capelet sleeve will be minimized in summer lines to a width of little more than two inches! And most set-in sleeve padding will be narrowed and curved as close to the wearer's bone structure as possible. " ~ . NECKLINES will be low before and after 5 p. m., come summer, Many are cut in deep squares or ovals, with collar frames. Others will be softened with shirring and soft detail. Summer sports dresses will be scooped out to the maximum in the throat and shoulder area, with deep sunback exposure in some versions. And there are all sorts of little collared cape-

absolutely

redingotes to camouflage these back and shoulder exposures hea You're not sunning youre self. Cool cotton poplin appears to be the up-and-coming fabric, and it's being used in day and evening dresses, But chambray, _birdseye pique, opaque novelty cottons, drapery prints in shiny finishes and butcher rayons are easy runners-up,

lets, tricky rib-high jackets and

be the coolest for the few who LR can wear it unpadded. And 32 that's the high-style ticket, an E . 8»

Sewing Contest Entrant Registration

43 Here is my official registration for The Times’ National Bewing . Contest. I will bring my contest garment on Apr. 19 to the place to be announced in The Times.

NAME ADDRESS $33080900990000400904y PHONE sesncssnasnlensonsennes

I plan to enter in the classification marked %“elow: (Check one or more. You are not ob-

* standard Pattern Group, Senjor Division, for entrants above 18 years of age. (1) Dress—Rayon, silk or wool

veer (3) Dress—Cotton.... (3) Coat or Suit....

* e=—f8tandard Pattern Group, Jun- * Jor Division, entrants 18 years

or under. (1) Dress.... (2) Bujt or Coat....

Glamour Group, no age limit. (1) Evening, lounge, beach wear, etc, from standard pattern or original design.

sp-Original Design Group, no age limit. (1) Dress, suit or coat originally designed by . contestant and intended for adult or upper teen-age wear.

=Children’s Clothing Group, . no age limit, (1) Clothes for children up to 12 years of age.

Mall to: Sewing Contest Editor, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St.

Let's Eat— Cream Soups Are ‘Special’

By META GIVEN “SPECIAL” dishes which are sure to draw praise for the family cook often may be simple and inexpensive. Many reputations are built on cream soups, for example. The home cook needs only to learn the secret of making a good white sauce, the base of all cream soups, add the vegetable in the right proportions and season the mixture carefully. Remember to serve the soup attractively gagnished, too.

” ” o CREAM OF CORN SOUP (For Monday luncheon) 1 tbsp. margarine 1 tbsp. flour 3% c¢. milk 14-inch piece bay leaf 1 slice onion (2 inches in diameter) ‘ 4 peppercorns No. 2 can cream style corn pureed (makes 1% cups) 1 tsp. salt : % tsp. sug

ar About 3 slices bacon, cooked crisp and cut fine, OR 1 ¢. popped corn Melt the margarine in the top of a double boiler. Add the flour, then a small amount of the milk. Stir until smooth, then add the remaining milk, bay leaf, onion, pepper and corn, Stir in the sajt

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By SUE BURNETT Here's an attractive squarenecked pinafore with a sunny weather air about it. Pattern 8130 is for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42, Size 14, 3% yards of 35 or 39-inch. Send today for your copy of the spring and summer Fashion. Fifty-two pages brimful of sewing information. Free gift pate tern printed in book.

that WON'T RIDE UP or TWIST. Lightly touched

SUE BURNETT

The Indianapolis Times 214 W. Maryland St. Indianapolis 9. *

No. 8130, Price 25¢. Bilge. sssssess Fashion Book Price 25¢ Name .iqeceeseesorossvsnnene BUG crveveviciinniidinirn CHY «cirireiesess BUS, vers

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Perfect to wear with

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with ribbon and lace, in pure white, to

wear with spring blouses.

WASSON'S LINGERIE, THIRD FLOOR

care of her, to stand guard over your new upholstery and hide wo in the old covering. Simple filet is fascinating handwork and so easy that the beginner can start right out with this pattern withou any qualms! ‘

To obtain complete crochet. |

ing instructions, chart for filet crochet, stitch illustrations and finishing directions for Pattern 5741, use the coupon below,

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Oetrespondent WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—Mrs. E% John Taber, gray-haired wife of § the budget-siashing chairman of &

| _~ FRIDAY, MAR. % 1 YOUR HOME— | - PE Household Objects Form Art Exhibit On View at the Herron Museum -

while her husband hacks away at!

Under the guidance of a pro-|i

Arene USEFUL household objects on exhibit at the Herron Art Museum is the flexible light-weight pin-up lamp. in the photo right above. It was designed by Kurt Versen, a winner in the annual international home furnishings contest held by the American Institute of Decorators last month. The Herron ex. hibit, to stimulate consumer interest in better de. ‘signed useful objects, will close Apr. 18. It is free to the publig be seen Tuesdays through Sundays.

mats’ and polished wooden bowls, photo left above, are feather.

fessional dress designer and seam-!? stress, they have bent over their|~ sewing machines every Wednesday | ? morning for the past two months to learn how to make old looks #

As Mrs. Taber said, most of them “had put up a hem and pulled out a seam.” But that was about the limit of their previous Now Mrs. Taber tells with pride ° of the $245 price tag she saw on! a blue-black iridescent taffeta al- |“ most exactly like the dinner gown she just completed. Her home-|? made cFeation cost less than §20.|" her classmates recall with laughter how happy she was when she learned the professional trick|® of running scissors through taf. feta without opening and closing]

Mrs. Wayne Morse, wife of the Republican Senator from Oregon, boasts a turquoise dinner dress with a draped neckline as a be-

weight, too, and as utilitarian as they look. Designed by Dr. Peter Schlumbohm, a New York chemist, the ice cube pail and bottle cooler (left center) is constructed from a glass tank surrounded by one inch of cork insulation, The combination will cool a bottle in 15 minutes down to 35 degrees F. The cooler, like the rest of the Schlumbohm collec. tion of glass, metal and cork objects at Herron, is modeled after the heat and cold resistant plan used in chemis labe - oratory instruments, The difference is that the practical items on exhibit emphasize beauty along with utility. Other items in the Schlumbohm group include a seamless metal cocktail shaker, It has a plastic cork stopper as well ag a “polo ball” dasher. A glass kettle is one of the most unusual of the pieces. Experts refused to put a spout on a glass kettle, so the spoutless spout was born. . The entire circumference was designed spout-profiled and a hole melted into that contoured wall. ‘Through it the water flows as through a spout. The upper walls are shaped like a handle (carafe-like) to prevent condensation of steam on these walls. This is achieved by the steamstopper, a glass tube surrounded at its ends by composi-

the kettle when pouring water. The cork seals the handle. walls against the steam, thus keeping them cool, Designer Eva Zeisel did the clear plastic bowls in the photo lower left. They're available in many shapes and sizes and

used as individual relish trdys or salad bowls, and their un.

coming result of her dressmaking

usual shape would individualize a moderns table setting.—By JEAN TABBERT.

Styled with a flare for spring . . . in the favored Betty Hartford manner.

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Right: Embroidered daisies accent spun rayon in green, pink or blue. Sizes 16!/; to 24/3. 000 10% : )

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