WHEN BUILDING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 6

WHEN BUILDING

MAKE A GOOD START. It doesn't make any difference what you're building, you've got to make a good start. Otherwise the whole structure will crumble. A house, a boat, a career, a wardrobe, each needs a firm foundation into which you put good materials, good workmanship, serious thought and wise selection. A woman begins with four fundamentals when she plans her wardrobe. The clothes women wear can be roughly divided into four groups—sports and easy wear, tailored things, more formal afternoon and evening wear. So the basis of a woman's wardrobe must be the four different kinds of foundations over which these clothes are worn.

The first is a stepin or wrapon and separate brassiere for all things tailored. Your wisest choice, if you are slim, is voile or lastex faille or batiste; writes a lady correspondent; if medium to heavy, skintex; and really heavy, the front lacing or inner-belt type of foundation, with preference given to the controlette if heavy bosomed. The second is a garment permitting freer movement for sports and free-and-easy leisure —boneless Imitated lastex for the slim; skintex, elastic net or plastic fabric for mediums; skin-tex-and-fabric for heavies. The third and. fourth are all-in-ones in which elastic net, plastic satin or faille, and skintex are used with non-stretch panels, according to the figure-type. From these descriptions there may not seem to be a vast difference between the three basic foundations, but it is the different way in which the fabrics are combined.