Evening star., 1943-09-03
By EpsIyn Hayes

hand, and as you take things out,
shake them, brush them-and 60
after any spots that may have
escaped the cleaners notice. You'll
be surprised what difference
good shaking and brushing will
make to q dress that has been
hanging In your closet all summerI
Next, put to one side everything
that is no longer useful as 1t is. Last
year you might have discarded those
things; this year you're going to
try to make them do.
Start with your coat. Look 1t over
carefully lest the moths have tried
a tidbit. (Shame on you Ii they
have-with all those good preventa-
tives on the market to discourage
hungry mothsD II you find any
signs Of moth-fcasts, be sure to send
the coat to reliable weaver. For
a few dollars, the fabric will be like
new. The same holds for cigarette
holes in coats, suits or dresses. Now,
let's say there's nothing wrong with
your coat, but you're tired Of it, so
you've put 1t with the mo longer
useful" clothes. IT the fabric Is still
good, there are many things you can
do to keep the coat In circulation q
year or two longer. II It's plain
classic style, try adding q Chester
fieldian velvet collar-or, II 1t has
a velvet collar you're tired OF, rip it
on and edge the neckline with braid,
or bright felt. II the coat has revers
and q collar, there is nothing to stop
you from removing the collar COM
pletely, turning the revers toward
each other. adding great frogs of
soutache, and emerging from your
fever Of activity with fine Chinese
influenced beauty.
That old dress and Jacket ensemble
you're sick Of has great possibilities.
Perhaps you split 1t under the arms
or the neckline doesn't do all it
might for you-or you might have
any one of dozen reasons that last
year would have been used to ra-
tionalize the cost of new dress
This year, you1l have the top cut
Of the dress, put the skirt on a
waistband and wear the Jacket and
skirt as a new suit. With a bright
bow-tied blouse for accent, nobody
would ever guess it wasn't spanking
new. II you want to be clever with
a capital &C." you1l make a poodle
dog" wool fringe for the lapels OF
your suit, perhaps edging the pocket
too by clipping wool loops close.
Before you plan to buy street
length date dress, 60 through your
dinner dresses. You won't be wear
ing them much this year-and by the
time you do, you may not like them
Why not take one OF your long
dresses, chop off the skirt, cut the
neckline way down, add bit Of
peekaboo where you've cut it-and
you'll probably have as neat a bit
OF date bait as you could buy.
After you've looked over everything
and decided on its possibilities, sit
down with pencil and paper. and
literally chart your wardrobe. Down
one side of the paper list what you
have-i.e. black coat, green and
gold plaid jacket, black skirt, gold
wool dress. Across the top of your
paper, chart a column for each ac-
cessory you need, starting with
shoes, following through with hats,
blouses. etc. Next to each item OF
wearing apparel, fill in the acces-
sories you plan to wear with it. For
example, In the "black coat" column,
you'd write black" under shoes.
Seeing that, when you get to the
space where you want to indicate
shoes for your green and gold plaid
Jacket. you'd ditto the black, rather
than to plan to buy green shoes as
you might have pre-Pearl Harbor.
With such chart in front of YOU.
1t will be easy to see that one good
gold colored hat will probably set on
everything you have. II not gold.
then you might do tricks with black