Evening star., 1932-07-03
Smart Clothes for Week End
Care of Details
Important With
Limited Budget
BY MARY MARSHALL.

NE ONEY helps-helps a great
n deal-and not having much
N OF anything to spend for
clothes is a very good excuse
for not being smartly dressed.
And yet it's perfectly obvious that
money isn't all that counts in solving
the problem any more than it is all
that counts In planning an adequate
diet.
Doctors and school nurses tell us
that children suffering from malnutrl-
ton sometimes come from homes where
the income is entirely adequate and
that hale and hearty youngsters, per-
fectly well nourished sometimes come
from homes where the food allowance
is very meager, indeed. Just so, there
are women with very liberal dress al
lowances who never look well dressed.
and women who can spend very little
on clothes who somehow contrive 10
look smartly dressed on all occasions.
It's just a question Of proper planning
and buying and knowing what it's all
about
THERE is advice to be given the
L housewife nowadays on how to go
about providing her family with an
adequate diet on a minimum income.
But it's not SO easy to get helpful ad-
vice on how to dress well on a cur
tailed dress allowance. Yet it's a ques-.
ton worth serious consideration be-
cause keeping up appearances has a
good deal to 90 with keeping up ones
spirits and the spirits of those about
us-and one of the Surest ways of
making yourself and your associates
feel depressed is to go about looking
like window display from rummage
sale.
Here are some suggestions that have
proved helpful to other women who
have striven successfully to be well
dressed on a really limited dress allow
ance.
Remember that the basis of smart
ness is a good figure, and that your own
figure can be enormously improved by
correct posture. adequate foundation
garments if you need them, and well
fitting underthings.
x X y
A FTER that make special effort to
have your dresses. suits and coats
fit as well as possible. If you make
your own clothes-careful fitting costs
nothing but little trouble. If you
buy them ready made, the alterations
needed to make all the difference be-
but little more. Or if you can make
the alterations yourself, they cost
practically nothing at all A SIS suit
carefully adjusted and fitted is very,
much smarter in every sense of the
word than $50 suit that fits poorly.
Keep your clothes Immediately
clean. Wash them yourself if you
cannot afford TO send them to laun-
dry. Clean them in gasoline or sponge
off the spots II you cannot afford to
send them TO the cleaner, and be
diligent user of the clothes brush.
Possibly that is unnecessary advice
and yet it is a bit of advice to which
the woman of a limited dress allowance
should pay special heed.
Keep your shoes in trim condition.
Never wear heels that are worn down,
and if you cannot afford to have them
cleaned or polished, take the trouble to
do this for yourself.
And stockings If you are wearing
obviously expensive clothes you may be
able to get by with a crooked back
seam in your stockings, but if you are
doing your best on a curtailed dress
allowance. attention to these details is
of vital importance. And after all, it
costs nothing to adjust your stockings
so that they are free from wrinkles and
are perfectly straight.
x
WTEAR. dresses provided with wash
able accessory collars. If they
are kept spotlessly clean and fresh
they will greatly enhance the charm of
your dress and they will prolong the
usefulness of the dress by relieving
wear at the Eeckline and cuffs.
Buy clothes always that are becom-
ING A pyOpnSiyn drncS of II n
doubted smartness may look well even
If it isn't particularly becoming, but a
cheap dress must be becoming
Buy good materials-as good as you
can afford
Take especial pains over the appear
ance Of your hair After all, any
woman who is willing to take the trou-
bic can keep her hair looking smart
and attractive at very little expense,
and attention to this detail of good
grooming makes an enormous differ
fDrP tn ones general aDOParance