Volume 2 Article 5 Number 11 The Iowa Homemaker vol.2, no.11
1922 The hoS ddy Time of Year Harriet Schleiter Iowa State College
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HIS is the shoddiest time of the year perk up and hold its head high thru the T for the whole world. Even prim and remaining days of winter and early precise Dame Nature isn't quite up to spring. standard. Her gown of snow-white is If your dress has loose three-quarter growing sadly out of season. She knows length sleeves, just leave them in and it is still a bit too early to don her grass wear your blouse under them_ I saw a green frocks, and flower trimmed crea most unassuming wool dress of this type tions, so she goes about garbed in the become a "chawming model" by the ad grimy gray that was once her snow-white dition of a bright red crepe de chine gown. The rest of us feel the same wa y blouse and a band of cross stitching in about our winter clothes, but we are such red and tan around the bottom of the copy cats that we are afraid to wear our skirt and the sleeves. spring dresses until Nature takes the Of course a whole blouse isn't essen lead by putting on her's. We wear our tial. You ca n make just enough sleeves coats over our shoddiness and plan love to extend below your old sleeves, and it ly bouffant taffetas to wear a little later. looks just as well, really. If you'll forgive me for putting it so I realize, however, that the leading crudely I'll say that there is no time like problem of this day and age is not new the present for dolling up. I don't mean Try a summery collar with your old sleeves and new collars_ The thing that to go shivering about in ginghams when wool dress, and don't admit your shod wrinkles the most fair brows is the the wild winds are still blowing, but a diness. lengthening problem. You can't just let little touch of gingham or some other down the hems, fo•r the very good rea· summery ·fabric is a great help. Try it ·cutting a large triangle, topped by a nar son that many of the dresses are hem out in a new little collar for your wool row folded band, which is fastened less. When it is possible they simply dress and you will surely want to leave around the neck and finished in the front shriek of made-overmiss, which is an un your coat open at the neck to show It forgivable thing in a dress. But let us off. by a little buckle. And now may I beg of you all, please raise a chant of thankfulness to wise Dame Fashion that she allows us thb I want to tell you about a few th t I don't spoil the new collars you are go have seen that caught my attention. One boon of an uneven hem line, swooping ing to make by wearing with them a knit to the ground in places and curving up was made of pink organdy with latticed four-in-hand. They have their place with bands on the ends, and a little touch or inches higher in other places. Have you a starchy shirt waist and some kinds or tried that out on your dress that has a embroidery just above the lattice work. sweaters and suits. But they are worn A small droopy black velvet bow was wide straight hem? about ten times to one in their rightful And for the hemless ones try a sash, a worn with it. It looked very springy In place. And they are the ruination or deed. Another was of white net, three wide one on each side or narrow ones, or many an otherwise well planned costume. a wide one in the back that trys to pre collars in Iact, as may be seen in the "Go easy on 'em!" please. sketch, with shallow scallops. The in tend it's a train. Any kind of a sash evitable bow is of the same material. Perhaps you have the kind of a wool is good and what could be simpler for the dress whose sleeves are fastened on a lengthening problem Of a very dififerent type is the semi lining. If so you are a lucky girl, for all Panels ~re another of the easier meth business like stand-up collar of dark blue you need to do· is remove the sleeves or black organdy, and a bright silk tie ods; long panels on the side, and the and wear a waist instead. You'd never rest of the skirt quite short. Black vel around, of orange or red, with tassels on know the old dress in that guise. the ends. vet panels inserted in a canton crepe are As for waists, you can buy cotton so lovely. They may hang from the waist One of the most uniue is of plaitea cheaply now that it hardly pays to make line or the hip line as desired. orange organdy over black satin. It is one, except for the little touches of in If your crepe dress is too tight as well round in shape . dividuality one can add to them. A as too short, split it up the sides and And lastly, is a very transforming col blouse of pongee with peasant embroid wear an under slip of satin, or canton lar of handkerchief linen, made by ery in yarns -is enough to mak·e any dress (Continued on page 12)
Forgive Us This Day Our Idiosyns By EDA LORD MURPHY, Associate Professor of Home Economice
UR sins of omission and commission the grandmother whose ideas of conven This is a trial of faith that worketh pa O have long been on our minds, but the tion do not preclude her tucking her tience. She, who aches to receive her little annoying personal traits, which for napkin under her chin, down to the letters inconspicuously and to hide In the a better word we shall call "idiosyns," youngest child who frankly and freely corner to enjoy them, becomes the butt have always seemed justifiable. They do tells the family affairs, brilliant, exam of such remarks as, "Well what did he not appear important enough to be for ples of our personal and peculiar habits say today?" or, "Who is the nut who given, (except daily and hourly by a may be enumerated. writes to you on pink stationery?" or, more or less loving family.) In practically every family there is one "Oh, Gee! He's at a swell hotel, ain't In the Atlantic Monthly of December, person who dashes to the door to get he?" 1920 Frances Lester Warner wrote on the mail directly from the hands of the This infinite curiosity about other per this subject, calling her essay "Love's post man. If it happens to be a small sons mail is not limited to small boys, Minor Frictions." To read it is to chuckle. brother it would be harmless enough, since theirs is perhaps not so much cur To have read it is to recognize yourself except that he holds it firmly in his fist iosity as it is the satisfaction of teasing. in the spotlight, guilty of causing minor while he makes deliberate distribution to To grownups can be attributed unadul frictions which have almost precipitated the members of the household. One's terated curiosity. Brave are they who, major operations. annoyance is doubly aggravated by his living in an apartment house, are willing From the grandfather who sips his trenchant comments. Big sister holds for all the neighbors to shuffle the mail. tea with the sound of rushing waters and her breath until the ordeal is over. "I see you had a letter from so-and-so" 12 THE lOW A HOMEMAKER
or up the front. The skirt may be length + · - ··-··-·-··- ·· - ·· - ~· - ·· -··- ·· - ·· - ·· - + The Shoddy Time of Year ened by bands of lining material, hidden (Continued from page 4) by flouces of plaited satin. The Sensation of the Season :,: As for that short, full taffeta you prob THE NEW crepe. Then you might lengthen it by a ably have about some place, try inserts of piece of set in pin-tucked or braided satin woven ribbon, or satin, taffeta, velvet, or KARESS DOUBLE VANITY j or canton crepe just above the hem. The same method is used to make a longer The first showing of a perfect waist line. The band for the waist should + double compact, giving four be narrower than the one around the +·- ··- ··-··- ··- ··- ··-··-··-·-··- ··- ··- shades of Rouge and Powder. bottom. Come in and See The waist line in a wool dress may al· 1 so be lengthened by setting in a piece of CRANE'S i JUDISCH BROS. braided material. ARGENTONE I DRUG STORE The wool dress of the Russian bloust: i i ' + - 11- II- MI- 11- Ift.-11- ll- ll- ll-11-ll-11-l + type looks well with an inset of plaid ma Beautiful New Stationery with terial beneath the waist, hem, and cuffs, and trimmed with an unknotted wool a Dignified Gray 'l'int fringe. It is not necessary to take apart i +·-··-··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ·- ··- ··- ·t the whole dress. Simply remove the skirc Reynolds & Iversen I from the waist and insert the plaid strip. ' A silk dress may be fixed in the same Ames News Stand way with insets of silk shepards plaids + - ··-llft - 11- tl- tl- ll- ll- ll-11-11 - 11- ll-l+ I with a fringe rna telling the predimin
Ii i s 0 many new designs in print- Scissors and Shears I • cd cloths so many additions i 1 to the kaleidoscope of colors, so Insist on the Wiss Brand. 'rhey are the Highest 1 J many smart new combinations Quality. i of shade and motif, you'll find i l suggestions for Spring costumes vV e carry a complete line of i i on every hand in the Ot·ess MILLINERS' PLIERS AND WIRE i i Goods Section. r PAINTS, ENAMELS AND VARNISHES Linens, Ratincs, fine Ging I hams, and Tissues especially I claim attention. And moderate prices make shopping merely a Carr Hardware Co. II matter of selecting that which The Paint Store best pleases you. TILDEN'S l Ii i + -11-II-II-II -11-II-II - II- II-II - II- II-NI-II- 11-11-II - II- II-II-I-II-II-II-II-111-tll-l + + -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ··- ··-·-·+