The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-10
Color and
Variety in
WrubbingS
BY JULIA BLANSHARD,
NEA Service Writer

By JULIA bLANSHAkD,
NEA Service Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Costum-
ing Christmas gifts in the new
mode is quite as important and Sc
lective matter as choosing the gift
In the first place, this year.
For style has crept into the outer
garments in which Yuletide gifts
fare forth to delight their new own
ers. Boxes assume strange shapes,
wrapping papers are glamorous and
Of infinite variety, romantic or
humorous ribbons grow to bows of
Gargantuan proportions. The big
idea of Christmas 1929 literally is
TO send surprise packages!
Following the new fashions in
Christmas wrappings, containers
often are permanent use. Padded
round boxes may hold delicate
cordial glasses, luster plates or fra
Rile ornaments that can be kept in
these containers when not in use.
Mundane things like imported
bath soap may come in modernistic
every time guests want cigarets.
Boxes that look like first editions
may contain TASKS Of perfume, an
entire sewing kit or six pairs of
silk stockings.
Just Like April l!
Simple candies, Christmas cookies
Ike potted plant, cornucopias or
new editions of books. And books
themselves may wear cloth covers
that remind one of sofa pillows,
calico cats or the new modernistic
lamp shades.
In addition to the endless shapes
and intriguing novelty of the new
containers for Christmas gifts, the
wrapping papers that confront one
confound one.
Red and green are by no means
the predominating Christmas COL
ors today Chinese blue, with silver
stars, confetti patterns in pastel
shades, Sky-scraper effects in black
and white, gold backgrounds with
nimble modernistic reindeers in
orchid tones prancing thereon and
royal purple backgrounds featuring
demure nuns with folded hands all
compete for favor.
The conventional holly wreath
Santa Claus, Yuletide log and
Christmas Observation-Disclosures
wrapping paper designs can still
be found, for Christmas would not
be Christmas without them. to
many folks.
Blaze of Color
But zigZag stripes, dizzy checks, |
Sky-Scraper setback designs in at
least ten colorS, diamond and polka
dotted patterns, fine printed papers
that look like English prints and
childish ones with a conglomera-
ton of skates, Sleds, horns, air.
planes, little Mother Goose folk and
things to eat all mixed I'D in a
single design are the new and fas-
cinating papers.
Ribbons, strings and fancy
gummed strips of paper are de-
signed to complement these papers.
often repeating their design.
Double ribbons, with different col
ors on the two sides make merry
bows.
Along with the fashion trend of
containers, papers and ribbons,
greeting cards keep in the vanguard
of new things. Individuality in
Christmas cards has fairly reached
the point of Saturation! Many who
designed their own last season ate
going back to those on the market |
and finding satisfaction in the orig |
inal designs created.
They range from the simplest and
cutest of little figures that ones own
/ children might have drawn, to the
colorfully tinted and highly roman
tic ones that depict old English
scenes with all the richness of Lon |
don Christmas pudding.
There is something rather salts |
flying about the tremendous variety
and change in these wrapp ngS of |
the Christmas gifts and the cards |
that take the place of gifts. 1t is as
though the world actually appre-
Aciated that it Is not just the gift !
that counts, but the thought that |
prompts it and the loving care with !
which seasonal remembrances are
done up for sending.
Moreover, these new wrappings
dress up modest gifts in a most
pleasing manner. And that, too, IS
a blessing. For anything that puts
a premium on the spirit of the day
rather than the cost of the gift is a
blessing.
Therefore. in the last analysis,
these new costumes for gifts are,
after ALL quite as old in spirit as
the Christmas gift-idea itself. They
are a boon to the willing but simple
giver.
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