ARE YOU UNCRUSHABLE?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17758, 30 January 1926, Page 4

ARE YOU UNCRUSHABLE?

Are you, I wonder, one of the lucky people whose clothes, though they last for centuries, always look fresh? Whose frocks never soil or crumple, and who never appear in anything faded or tumbled in the least degree? Y r ou know this type of woman. She buys a coat in January, and wears it for a year without a mark. She’ll dance right through the season in the same frocks, and finally produce them uncreased and uncrushed at the end of it. Her things may grow oldfashioned in due course, but not dishevelled, as those of the average mortal hasten to do. A woman with this gift may be left on a desert island garbed in an organdi frock, and I assure you when the rescue party arrives they'll discover the annoying creature spick and span as though she had stepped from a bandbox. Only one thing can explain this phenomenon, which is that certain women are born uncrushable! They are able to defy the elements. Rain doesn’t spoil their hats, nor sunshine fade their frocks; their stockings don’t run, thenshoes don’t lose their shape, their -white gloves don't get dirty, nor do their cuffs and collars soil. Y r ou may, on the other hand, belong to the miserable ranks of women whose clothes seem to cherish a personal spite against them. They can’t wear a garment for an hour without its immediately looking as though they had slept in it for a week at least. Their effect on clothes is simply devastating. Everything they have gets shapeless, , soiled and tumbled the moment they put it on. They’ve only to look at a frock and it s all messed up! New coats sag and wrinkle, shoes get down at heel and the first time they wear a hat it comes home looking like the wreck of the Hesperus! Anyhow, if you want to dress well on a limited amount you must take care of your clothes. Have a large supply of coat hangers and keep 3 r our coats and frocks on them. Never hang one up by the arm or neck or leave them flung about. Acquire a really large, stiff clothes brush, wash it constant!}' and renew it from time to time, and never put outdoor clothes away without carefully brushing them first. Keep a supply of benzine, petrol and ammonia always handy for cleaning purposes. Never wear the same things two days running if this can be avoided. Every- kind of garment lasts twice as long if it is rested in this way. Keep your shoes on trees.