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Volume 12 Article 10 Number 2 The Iowa Homemaker vol.12, no.2 1932 Shall I Have a Blue Dress? Hazel Bown Iowa State College Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Bown, Hazel (1932) "Shall I Have a Blue Dress?," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 12 : No. 2 , Article 10. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol12/iss2/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 6 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER Many old time favorites reappear­ percale, calico, COl'duroy, striped seer­ Shall I Have a Blue Dress? sucker, eyelet em broidered batistes, lawns, chambmy and dotted swiss. Pique, By Hazel Bown broadcloths, prints, organdies, embroid­ ered and printed voile are as good this Textiles and Clothing Expert year as last. The ve1-y newest ones are cotton mesh, ratines, pongee and teny, HIS is the time of year when wo­ neckline is soft ru1d individual lace is al­ cotton lace, tweeds and homespun. T men are thinking of clothes for ways flattering. spring and summer. We may be plan­ UITS are ve1·y much in style this ning to buy a new garment, or perhaps HEN we want to make five dollars Sspring. You may have seen the slo­ W do the work of ten we must be we merely wish to bring last year's gan, ''Every dress of 1932 has its more sure than ever that we spend that clothes up-to-date. Let us consider a few jacket.'' Styles for suits are very new five dollars wisely. There are many 1·eal points in planning for spring clothes. anfl individual. Suits are so very adapt­ values in good fabrics, there are also First of all, we might consider color. able for general all around wear, anfl many cheap and shoddy so-called bar­ Blue seems to reign supreme as the gains. Use all your wisdom in selecting (Continued on )>aue 14) leading color this season. There are tluee important blues: midnight, bright blue garments and yard goods that will give satisfaction. If you are buying cotton, called new blue, and flax blue, a lovely linen, silk, wool or synthetic fiber, buy Time Turns Back greyed pale shade. Twine resembling the best available. 'rhis will limit the eggshell, but slightly more beige is new. wardrobe, but your garments will be ser­ By Gertrude McMullen For summer there will be much white viceable and attmctive. It is not economy with accents of color-blue, red, orange, to buy a fabric. that will fade, slnink "B yTHEIH hands- or by their lack rust, green, brown or black. Bright green, or pull after a few wearings. of hands- ye shall know them,'' deep blue green, forest green and yellow say collectors of old clocks. The Consider the attractiveness and appro­ green, reels, yellows ancl pinks m·e also very earliest clocks had neithm· dials nor priateness of design, color and texture of spring color families. hands, the hours being announced by material to the wearer. Ask yourself, will Popular three color combinations are small bells. Later, about the thirteenth the seams slip, will it shrink, are the col­ reel, beige and blue; porcelain blue, ger­ century, the hour hand was added on a om fast to washing, sun and wear, will it anium pink and white. Four color com­ dial decorated at 1·egular intervals to rep­ wrinkle easily and can it be made over ~ binations are black, white, lime yellow resent the hours. Hands of clocks gTow and blue green, or brown, geranium pink, When selecting a pattem, keep in mind delicately intricate, large and clumsy, or pale yellow and white. these points. Is it appropriate to the severely plain, as the mood of a countl·y lines of the person who is to wear it and Hegardless of seasonal colors, the wise changes, so it is vm·y important f1·om the to the design and texture of the mate­ buyer will always consider colors becom­ point of view of the collecto1· that the TiaH Is it the right size and fit~ J s it ing to the individual who is to wear the original hands or at least hands of the easy to sew and finish~ garment as well as colors that fit into the same period be found on clocks. color scheme of ga1·ments now being worn. If you are buying a ready-made dress, We busy Americans are not the only If browns am most becoming to you and look to the workmanship, the cut and the peoplo who have been concerned about your wardrobe is now built around a material. With these points in mind we keeping up with the time. Evidences of hrown color scheme, nothing could be a will consider fabrics available. timekeepers m·e found in histories of the more unwise pm·chase or a more jarring remotest countries of the world. The HEBE is no limit to the number of color note than a hat of new blue. Egyptians, Babylonians, Chaldeans and Tlovely new fabrics shown in yard Phoenicians all had their particular con­ goods sections this spring. Silks a1·e H E new silhouette has broad shoul­ trivances for measuring time, simple rough, crinkly and wavy ribs. They are Tdered effects, gained by wide yoke, though they were. These were for the closely related to Hoshanam crepe. There epaulets, rapes, bertha collars, large most part water-clocks or clepsydrae and are also novelty weaves and spun rayons. sleeves and deep armholes. Waistlines consisted of a basin filled with water with are well defined by curved in lines, belts Silk prints m·e as closely associated a spout or tap at the extreme end from of self material and high waisted cut­ with spring as the fi1·st robin. 'rhey are which trickled the liquid, drop by drop, ting. Skirts are slender, gored, pleated refr·eshing. This spring prints are small into a receiver below marked for indi­ or flared with full11 ess that extends as with sharp contrasting colors in the p1·int cating the hours of the day. The Brah­ far up as the knee. Are skirts to be or in sharp contrast to the background. mans divifle(l each day into 60 hours of longer or shorter ~ Style says twelve to 'rhe best designs are not spotty, but have 24 minutes each, while the Egyptians had thirteen inches for sport, eleven to twelve the background well covered. only twelve hours in the day. inches for street wear, eight to ten inches Wools come in wonderfully soft colors. Pompey brought a valuable water-clock for afternoon. In spite of his forecast, Weaves are ribbed or lacey and always from the eastern nations which he made choose a length becoming to your height thin. Some of the newest wools have os­ use of for limiting the speeches of Homan and figure. trich sprinkled thro'lgh them. This gives orato1·s. In early Rome, when orators had Much of the style and decoration of a soft, bluny effect. certain periods of time allotted to them your dress will be found on the sleeves. Cotton is a fabric of much import3Jlce in the courts for accusation or deference Select styles that do not conspicuously and has greatly changed its apperu·ance. it is said that they often tampered with subtract from your height or conspicu­ Some of the newest cottons resemble thin the wax used in the lawful regulation of ously aclcl to your width. You will be able wooh Cotton will hold an important the flow of water. to find lovely ones that a1·e just right. position in fashion for spring a.nd sum­ When sand was substituted for water Necklines are high, right under the mer. The New York papers tell us cotton in these timekeepers, great care was chin. These are called turtle necks. The1·e is seen in Paris and New York's most taken in the process. According to a are many buttoned-up effects and buttons fashionable streets and stDl'es. It is French prescdption, ground black marble are everywhere, a most important trim­ simple, inexpensive and youthful, beauti­ dust was to be boiled in wine and after ming. Some styles show double breasted ful in color, lovely in texture and novel being thoroughly dried, to be ground effect8 or off side closing. The sear£ in weave. (Continued on paue 13) 14 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER inches below. Some are fitted, others are A Blue Dress? loose box style, and you will find a few (Continued f•·orn ]Jage 6) suits with full length coats. SPECIAL SALE they are not difficult for the home dress­ Skirts are very comfoTtable. Fullness maker. is placed at the front to just above the Extra Heavy Cast 'fhere are three types of suits, the tail­ knees. This fullness is provided by flares, Aluminum ored suit, the suit dress and the after­ pleats or wrap around skiTts. In spite noon dress with a separate jacket. The of this fullness skirts have narrow, trim 2 ot. Sauce Pan with tailored suit has a mannish silhouette. lines and a slim appearance. A new feat­ Cover ............................ $1.49 The shoulders have a square effect ure in skirts is the above-the-waistline achieved by raglan sleeves, epaulet shoul­ cut.

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