Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-06-12
HOmemakerS' In
Fashion Show At
Spring Meeting

Spring Meeting
Costumes covering the period
from 1776 to the present day were
modelled by Homemak,er Club MEM
beers at the Druid Theater in Da-
mascus Thursday afternoon when
the annual spring meeting of the
Montgomery County Council of
Homemakers was held. The lovely
new theater was filled to capacity
by the 500 or more Homemakers
who came to sing and be enter
tanned. The splendid program was
arranged by committee headed
by Mrs. George Schroeder.
Mrs. Robert Billhimer and Mrs.
Wallace Muir were mistresses of
ceremonies of a novel fashion show
during which lovely wedding
gowns, pina-cloth afternoon dress
es, capes, dolmans, trousseau night
gowns and indies were modelled
by Homemakers. Mrs. John Hamil-
ton wore a beautiful red silk and
black net gown which once was
worn by Martha Washington. Mrs.
Martin Best Of Olney- Sunshine,
modelled the gown she wore for her
wedding in 1905. The most elabo-
rate dress was too small to be
worn, so was displayed from a
hanger. 1t was an original Paris
creation made in 1890 to represent
the Yellow Emperor Butterfly. It
is now owned by Mrs. Katherine
Koehne, daughter of the woman
for whom it was designed by
Rouff.
A "duster," introduced with the
horseless carriage was worn, and a
1905 gym outfit was compared with
the brief gym suits worn today.
Mrs. Mollie Gladhill demonstrated
what was worn under the lovely
old gowns, and did a modified
strip tease" to show the three,
petticoats, and even gave the audi-
ence glimpse of her lace trimme1
drawers.
The old fashioned clothes were
followed by suits, coats, dresses
and made-overs, work recently
completed by members as a part of
recent demonstrations on fine tail
oring practices. Mrs. Billhimer
stressed the fact that the same fine
workmanship went into modern
garments that was in the lovely
costumes already modelled, even if
women today had the benefit of
sewing mschines, zippers and other
modern improvements.
Mrs. Muir ended the review by
saying, Zone of the richest heri-
tages of Maryland women is their
ability to take a piece of cloth and
make dress, a piece of earth and
make a garden, and take house
and make a home"
Following an invocation by Rev.
C. w. Jordan, earlier in the pro-
gram, Mrs. John Muncaster, Jr.,
presented the names of the officers
to be elected at the fall meeting:
Mrs. Pauline Smith, Four Corners,
president; Mrs. Wilton O'Calla-
CHAN, Wheaton, vice-president, and
Mrs. Ward Mullican, Gaithersburg,
treasurer.
Miss Edythe M. Turner, Home
Demonstration Agent, presented
awards to the Laytonsville, Cal
thersburg and Washington Grove
clubs for their splendid coopera-
tive window display during Home
Demonstration Week.
Miss Frances Wolfe spoke brief
ly on Club Week, and appropriate
ly enough, wore the dress her
mother had worn for Club Week
Commencement in 1888.
Ivan Lawson played for group
singing Of Stephen Foster songs,
and three clubs dramatized songs.
Damascus portrayed "Jeannie of
the Light Brown Hair; Wheaton,
"Oh Susanna" and Four Corners,
"If You Only Had a Mustache."
County Commissioner Brooke
Johns, with his famous banjo, con-
tributed his part to the program by
singing and playing several of his
favorite selections. In word to the
ladies, he said that he would adj
wise the men to get hold of an ex-
ira barrel after seeing how nicely
the women were able to make a
suit for themselves from one Of
their husbands.
Two interesting Department Of
Agriculture films rounded out the
program. Special thanks were ex-
tended to Druid Clodfelter, owner
Of the theater.
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