Linen Frocks for Fashion

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 5

Linen Frocks for Fashion

New Motoring Vogue

There is one woman in Sydney who will never wear a finelypleated and elaborate crepe de chine frock when she drives her powerful car again. Dressed in a model of printed and pleated crepe de chine, she set forth one very hot day recently for an afternoon picnic. The heavy car and the hot day were too much for her. Dust mixed with the perspiration on her face, and, by the time she had reached her journey’s end, there were no pleats left in her skirt. MAKING WASHING SIMPLER HOME-MADE BAGS WILL HELP YOU SORTING THE CLOTHES Sorting the clothes for washing day is a housewifely bane which probably dates back to the days of i Solomon and his numerous wives. There are the articles doomed to the copper for a lusty boil in lux and soapsuds, and those delicate tinted silken goods which must not be washed in anything but tepid water and treated with gentleness. One of the salvations of the housewife is to possess a laundry bag with two compartments, which will separate the silken goods from the cotton. This can be made easily with the aid of three yards of cretonne or gingham, a yard of sateen, two pairs of wooden embroidery hoops about 10 inches round, and cardboard sufficient to make four circles of 10J inches. Two lengths of cretonne of ]J yards are tacked together with the edges matching. Those doubled pieces are folded in half crosswise, i and points six inches from the end are marked on the edge opposite the fold. Then join each point by a line to the nearest end of the fold, and gather along these lines. Unfold the piece, take out the tacking threads, and leave the pieces atop of each other. Seam the edges Frenchwise, and stitch along the crease of the crosswise fold. Sew each short edge over the hoops, gathering the edges on. The circles of cardboard are covered with sateen, sewn together in pairs, the right sides to the outside. I A loop of an inch wide sateen is placed j doubled between the circles and the | hag, folded in half at the stitched | seam,. , Two three-inch loops of sateen are attached under each circle, where it is sewn to the loop. This will enable the laundry-hag to hang comfortably from a coat hanger or door knob, and easy to manage on washing days. |

Two days afterwards, when she decided to take the frock to be repleated, she discovered that half the skirt had fallen away. Nothing rots fine silk more quickly than perspiration. Visitors to the East are warned against taking silk frocks in their travelling trunks. Cottons and linens, certainly, but beware of silk always. Forewarned The cunning motorist, knowing this, will step inside her car forewarned and forearmed. The newest idea for the girl driver, especially on long country jaunts, is found in the pretty smocks of linen, Indian head, or coloured China silk, some made with high mannish necks and severe ties, others more feminine, but all with long sleeves. Thus equipped, with her cute little beret of felt set securely over her shingle, she may motor to the farthest point of the country with no fear of ruining her frock. These little smocks are so easily tubbed and ironed, and repay their owner by emerging from each wash fresher and prettier than the last time, that the girl motorist is foolish, indeed, who does not include several of them in her summer wardrobe.