WARDROBE IN A WARDROBE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1940, Page 12

WARDROBE IN A WARDROBE.

USE FOR OLD NIGHTDRESS. The “go-to-party” dress really needs more special care than those we are wearing every day. It is no good putting it in the wardrobe knowing you will not be wearing it for a couple of weeks or so and leaving it at that. Even the best of wardrobes —except perhaps those ponderous ones our grandmothers used to take a pride in possessing—do let in a certain amount of dust. Clothes being popped in and out every day do not have time to come to much harm, but the “bn reserve” ones might collect a ridge of dirt which any stray moth would welcome as a comfortable nursery for its family. The best plan for such special dresses is to give them a wardrobe inside the wardrobe, as it were. There is a wide variety of cellophane dress covers to be bought, and these are excellent, and every wardrobe should have at least one—and as many more as can be afforded.

More economic still: make your own special dress covers. What about the old nightdress? It is ideal, and has the added advantage that it can be washed when dirty. Some nightdresses will do as they are. Others Will heed adapting, but once you have tried putting a Special in a cover in the wardrobe you will‘never do without them. You can either sew up the nighty at the bottom and slit up .the side and fix press studs, or you can leave the bottom open.