Evening star., 1932-07-10
Living Room
Is Adorned
In Gingham

IT'S a gingham season. House dresses
to get breakfast in-sport dresses to
don for a set OF tennis-afternoon
dresses of immaculate daintiness-and
evening dresses that are every bit as
smart as those made from silks and
satins: all are made of gingham.
Taking their cue from dress fashions,
the interior decorators have tried out
the possibilities Of gingham in a new
way. Up to now. We have had gingham
curtains in the kitchen. We have had
gingham bedrooms, too, with windows
and beds bravely decked out with blue
and white or green and white, red and
white or pink and white gingham.
But now gingham has come out OF
the kitchen, come downstairs from the
bedrooms, and made itself quite at
home in the living room. Some very
smart country house living rooms now
sport gingham curtains at the windows
with gingham cushions on the chairs.
And the effect is exceedingly good.
One especially attractive living room
with an unusually wide window has a
long gingham curtain at one side, hang
ing to the floor, with a valance across
the top of the window. At the other
side is a sheer net curtain, with a ging-
ham tieback. The result is most at
tractive, and is something that any
body might copy.
You can buy sets of gingham- covered
cushions, with little tapes to make it
easy to fasten them securely on your
chairs And if you are clever at doing
that sort of thing, you can make ging-
ham covers for all your cushions. The
cost is slight, for gingham is one of the
least pretentious Of fabrics, so far as
price goes. And its colors are so at
tractive that you can surely find one
to fit in with your color scheme.
Red is used appropriately in simply
furnished room. If the room is full of
sunlight, then green is a better choice.
Soft brown, checked on white, is also
attractive, and would be the best choice
in some rooms.
When 1t comes to bedrooms, all the
lighter shades Of ginghams may be used
so that for small price each bed
room may have a new Midsummer
dress of a distinctive color. Bedspreads
may be made of big strip of gingham
scanned in the middle, or at both
sides, to make it wide enough-with a
wide gathered valance around three
edges to hang at sides and foot almost
to the floor Bedroom window curtains
may be put on rings, run on curtain
rods at the top of the window, and SO
may be easily drawn over the window
for shade or privacy.
Another way to use gingham in the
bedroom is to make the bedspread of
unbleached muslin and band it with
gingham about the edges. The curtains
too, may be of the muslin, ginghap
banded
Spreads for bureau, dressing table,
bedside stand, may all be made of ging-
ham-or of muslin with gingham
bands. And if it isn't OVERRIDING the
matter, chairs may have gingham coy
cred cushions
One good thing about these things
is that they can be washed and ironed
SO easily. Another good thing is that
they don't fade badly And if you uss
them lust for Summer, they may be
laundered-at least carefully washed
in the Autumn and put away until next
Spring
1t is always a good plan to wash OF
otherwise clean any hangings that are
put away for the season before putting
! them away. They must be ironed OF
pressed when they are taken out. But
! they should not be packed away with
any dust or dirt In them.