Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1948 — Page 31
SUNDAY, OCT. 24, 1048 { Maine Storm
{ Gear Finally
1 Goes to Paris
Designer's Rain Hat Has Bow and Brim By BARBARA BUNDSCHU
United Press Staff Correspondent
Clothes Turned
Out in Homes
American Women Get| - Praises of Designer |
By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent |
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PARIS. Oct. 23-The Maine! a HOLLYWO( : Sha * )D, Cal, Oct. 23 sou'wester has "finally “got “to gen | Although her name won't ap-| Paris. N rit : u pear on the designers’ annual With October weather on the Lo + lists, the American woman who
Champs Elysees more unpredicable than a New York blizzard, a fancy hatmaker came up today| with the Parisian version of the New England Fisherman's hat. The whole idea is much too) practical for most French women, Simone Cange admitted, but she figures that 40 per cent of/ “her customers will at least think] the idea. over, In gray gabardine instead of
[makes her own clothes can be the best-dressed in the country, | Movie fashion designer Mary| (Wills says the world’s most |charming ensembles are “created, [not in Paris salons, but on the & [sewing machines of a million | American homes, “The dresses that American | {women ate making today,” Miss| Wills said, “are prettier, more]
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yellow oilskin, the chapeau is de-|. "5" [practical and in better taste than signed to look just as good in the| ; 0: »2* {many of the expensive clothes a fun as in the rain. | Boy [small coterie of stilted stylists t starts out as a fancy roller, ... (try to force on them, Home-
slightly réminiscent of Lord Nelson, with an extracurricular bow! on top of the head. | Come a shower, the bow unties, the brim lets down over the ee and the bow turns up again un-| _
made now is a mark of smart distinction.” Miss Wills, who is one of the| |few fashion designers to hold a {master of arts degree (from|
der the chin. lyale) and who has turned down| Slightly more expensive than ‘ leaching Offyrs a Siantorq own| he Maine version, this gadget : arvard, makes mos costs about $30 made to ra get 4 lelothes and always has, ROOM WITH A PURPOSE—This kit= hen- lividg room makes eating a_cosy proA enable hairdn. wet “| One of her most ruccesstul cedure. {A Galving ipa hiige Hrabiace | i a electrically driven barbecue. The room as a couple more creations was her college gradu-| is part o ouse designed an uilt - ideas for on-again, off-again . ation formal, She made it from f the h LX d } h N obert L. Mason. Proceeds from the dis . showers, too. Sugar sacks she had dyed and Ploy of the house next Sunday throug Nov. 14 will go to the Central West District,
Garden Club of Indiana.
printed herself.
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ft pulls up over the head, and. that takes: cars of your eurls.| You can’ put it in vour pocket. ir!
HAO Hea a CAMRY a: Weight aid By AR OR Was IIRL Yo papersd in} wren form. the. color. scheme here, Another starts out with a ORE AN TRERAN ODL. ci ARTO Clete 00 IAA BA, TEXT, WIth. and painted pw panel of Thiers are Orienthl rugs to wd’ slightly Maurice Chevalier beret | Because of ‘tHe-soaring cost of Sunday“through Nov. 14. blending flowered paper. This ~ Tichiress’ md : ne
-—seuen ple-shaped sections wit!
Women Driven Back To Sewing Machines
Now Miss Wills is under exclusive contract to producer Sam | Goldwyn, for whom she designed | period gowns ‘Te-|
Hving, Miss Wills said, more, than|
By JEAN TABBERT A MODERN HOME with an old-fashioned theme--that's the idea behind the ranch-type home at 4190 N. Pennsylvania St. It was designed and built DY Robert. L..- Mason for display
He likes it so much he's go--
everything is business-like efficiency with standard appliances and more cupboards to store dishes and foods. “Opening off this part of the kitchen is the regular dining
means the food preparation
wood divisions,
the fireplace, nestle around the French doors that flank it. No“
space is wasted in this modern’
interior.
. » =» " DARK GREEN walls, white~ Selling and chartreuse drapes
The entrance hall repeats the
them. than can some stranger in a lhe living part of the kitchen In the master and chartreuse; the smaliér one Mme. (ange, one of the few| drafting room on the other side inc ludes sofas, a dining table, bedroom, for instance, there is has a green ceiling, vy walldesigners who ever tried to sell| of the ocean,” she said. “The few | chairs and the highlight of the a picture window on one side paper and white drapes trimmed make just rain hats, however. At egocentric designers who stinl| room, a fireplace (with pot of the room, two smaller ones in red corduroy,
rain hats to Parisiennes,
doesn’t |
wage their bitter war of hemlines
hook) and an electrically- driven ba: becue.
together. on the other, - They
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RAR FEHB HG TH ed o {twice as many women are wid Ing to live right there after grea is between ‘the wo serv. living room's colors with a when the sun shines, but it has, ing: own; elothes, today. as i ‘showing. off procéy Ing. Conters. conventional White, : jade und, : room to tuck in all the eurls when; did before the war. “Process wink) “gue dining room has a lice. GArK green paper it rains. Or you can leave the Eg “They are quickly “discovering fray the cost of the . ga Mm bay windew similar to other Th Atel bath” ee AY bangs out and snap on a jockey-| that they can dress themselves Eroup's Narcissus “Show - in “wiridows in the house. All are Off this hall, The master sleepcap brim to keep the rain off more . attractively and sensibly APril. king-size and unobstructed by Ing room is teal blue, yellow
balanee each other and let in & proof wallpaper lines the walls - maximum of light, of the bathroom, and the tile ~ The highlight of the living floor is gray and red.
least 80 per cent of her customers, have old ideas. They wear satin]
and shoulder pads are driving] more women back to their sewing
Walls are knotty pine shellacked to give a glossy finish,
and feathers and velvet and lace! fn the rain—under . their um- machines every day. Ang heat On the left side of the room room, which is next ta the Radiant heat is used in the brellas: | sewing machines are producing| o,¢.sized cupboards are built dining room, ig another fire house and the air movement is - es } Jealiy authentic and wearable| j5t; the walls. These will hold place surrounded by book- handled by a large attic Sven ro ashions.’ everything from Mr: Mason's ghelves. Th Ives, fi t to Bleach Elbows el Since it's the designers who gports equipment to his wife's ves S Maio a wh tiator fan,
canned. goods. stock. Dye Light Hose “It's a space well put every- | Dye your ligh, colored summer | thing we don’t know whege else hose with an all-purpose Tings) to store,” Mrs. Mason said. And |and have a new stock! ard. | them. the cupboards are generous {robe of dark shades for Mt and “The really best-dressed women enough to hold a variety of { winter. . may never have appeared among odds and ends. - the top 10,” she said. “Quite pos- " =u Dog Collars millinery. sibly they live in small American THE FOOD preparation half | One of the new floral styles is, Tied in gypsy fashion with towns, and very likely they make of the Kitchen is toward the identical flower collars for milady ends hanging down the side their own clothes.” main part of the house. Here and her dog. makes a flattering headdress.
“make--up--the -best-dressed lists. the women who don't buy their clothes don't get picked. Miss Wills says this shouldn't concern
Use Gay Scarves Sag ‘As a Headdress on
Parisiennes report that gay ane have gone to their heads. No longer are they used as just covering in bad weather, but
With Lemon Juice If your elbows need bleaching] try a pumice grooming aid. It will erase dark, rough: patches.! Another treatment is to saturate] pieces of cotton with lemon juice or a mild bleach. Fasten the cotton to your elbows for a short time while you read or rest.
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Shop jin Your Car A last word in luxury comes “fromy Chicago. ~ There ..are .pro-. posed plans for a drive-in shopping center where all purchases can be m#de from the customer's car.
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2 Times Woman's Editor : JONG BEFORE fall gets a good running start in the weather “reports, it's rw spring in the showrooms of LL A Yule. Hint dress manufacturers. - These. gentlemen have to.be... several long leaps ahead of the weatherman in order to get fashions into the stores by the time wearers are ready for them. So this week in St. Louis, where a whopping lot of styles worn by young misses are made, springtime for juniors arrived. Three of the St. Louis styles headed for springtime wear are pictured: In the top photo, the ladylike look for spring is starred in an after-five crepe. It's seen in the pretty hand-de-tailing of tucking which criss-crosses the skirt, in
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(well in mind. Proof in one collec tion is a charming silver brocade mandarin jacket top, shown with a black crepe skirt that's just
the open type with the sub deb/what you'd like to be wearing phuyers.
when friends drop around. An-
Jothirg can replace the well-kept|other hostess costume combines a
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does everything. They
crepe blouse made with c\ifed sleeves, a black crepe
long, Another choice is “Jump dress” with
short sleeves and a printed cotton
gilet, Miracle Brush There's a brush on the market now that its manufacturers claim say it brushes . the hair, makes ‘a curl and even inserts the bobby pin.
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