Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-15

the fashion will be cotton and Isle
You'll look dated and dowdy wearing
silken hose in world where the men
oele the angles in cotton mesh.
Even though the WPB rulings for
women's clothes won't affect their
styling very much, there is, never
theless, certain amount of deterio-
ration in anything bought to hang in
the closet or be tucked into a drawer
to wear at some future date when it
supposedly will not be available
The jacket will 60 off keel from too
long a session on the hanger. The
girdle will lose its elasticity from
lying around. The silk slip will
yellow in the dark of the drawer.
Buy just what you need and take
your chances along with everybody
else on what you are going to get
next year. Remember that rayon
was developed during shortages of
the last war, and now the best
designers often favor it over silk
because it has such a versatility of
texture and feel. The substitutes to
come out of this wars shortages NAV
outstrip anything we've ever had
before. If your wardrobe goes to
tatters before the millennium arrives
then undoubtedly tatters will be the
fashion.
Your wardrobe isn't a fixed GUAM
tity. 1t depends on you and the
kind of life you live and the city or
Town p,Yt -,
time wives are faced with certain
general problems, there are a num-
Der of essentials in your wardrobe
you'll do better to have. Because
you are living alone only part of the
time you want clothes that are
easily convertible from everyday
simplicity to glamour for furloughs,
You can't dash out and buy a new
frock each time you hear your hus-
band is due home But neither do
you want to look repetitious. You
can't gather together a new week
end outfit each time you visit his
camp. but neither do you want to
look scrambled.
You will dress, of course. accord
Ing to the dictates of your own
clothes conscience and on your own
level Of style sophistication. But
In order to go along with that gen.
eral conservation program you want
to estimate what you need by what
you have left over.
What do you have left over?
Open your closet door and really
see. Just doing it on paper doesn't
turn the trick. There's the yellow
blouse you forgot. Or the checked
skirt you haven't worn for two
years Or the navy blue suit you We
been wearing to death and want to
forget.
OF course you can sometimes
spend too much on rehabilitation
The important thing to remember
before you put any money into the
livening-up process is: Will this cos
less and give me the same Stimulant
value as getting something new
will?
Generally conceded as essential
Is the dark crepe dress with fine
body lines. Do you have one In
your wardrobe? 1t doesn't neces-
sarily have to be black The the
DRY is that no wardrobe is COM
plete without a good little black
dress, but some women just do not
look we'll in black And some men
don't like to see black on you. Sc
II you have a dark, simple, figure
fiattering dress in a color you pre-
fer, you're started.
+ X
There's a new interest In such
quietly unassuming little dresses
now because they're feminine and
variable. 1t is the one kind OF
dress you can really wear pretty
frivolous hats with. It's a dress
you will wear when your husband
gets enough leave to take you out
You can dine in it, dance in it
wear it for anything as informal
as the movies or as dressy As the
local glamour spot. And every time
you wear a different hat with it II
will look completely different.
Because women and hats are neve
long separated, you can't think o
clothes without depressing on hats
For some years now flower hat
drenched in yelling have been seel
on the loveliest girls. Some girl
whip them up out of cluster o
violets and length of yelling from
the 5-and-l0. Equally ravishin
ones are turned out for $40. VIVA
matters about this kind of hat is tn
effect. And whether you pay $50 o
81, be sure to have three or fou
varieties on hand to play up tn
simple dark dress we're talkin
about.
If you don't own a dress like thi;
put down on q sheet of paper, unde