A WARDROBE PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 19

A WARDROBE PROBLEM

SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS

Long dresses have created a difficult problem (states a London writer). We find our wardrobe space, is not deep enough for the modern length of skirt to hang comfortably. The result at present in all too many cases is that our- best .party frocksp suffer badly and need pressing each time they are taken out and worn.

A cure for this trouble, if the wardrobe in question happens to possess a drawer at the base below the hanging compartment, is to lock up the drawer and get a job-carpenter to remove the flooring" of the cupboard. In this way the hanging space is deepened considerably and will allow the longest frock to "swing safely clear of, the base. We may find that skirts, too,'need more and more space in the wardrobe and this can be provided by screwing a couple of brass dresser hooks into the left-hand side of the -wall of the cupboard. The hooks should be placed as far apart as the depth of the compartment allows. This is usually about eighteen inches. They should also be at a convenient height from the original floor, say, forty inches, for this is a few inches longer than the walking skirt.

The modern skirts mostly have' loops at the waistbands near .'the- side seams and these are passed, one v over each hook, so. that the clothes hang tautly at the side of the wardrobe. If the hooks are not long enough, they can be threaded with large safety pins which are passed instead over the hooks.