Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1944)

MODERN SCREEN'S FASHION GUIDE (Continued from page 69) gabardine lumberjack dress. Coffee-cream beige up top, coffee-bean brown below. Pretty good eye-opener, if you ask me, morning or any other time. Comes in other combinations just as eye-opening and mouth-watering. Or let's say you've a nice enough waistline, but your hips just won't cooperate. Your best bet is a dirndl — and are you in luck! Yep, dirndls are still with us but the skirts can't be too whirl-around. That ballerina stuff's no go once you start wearing a coat. The lacy wool arrow dress sketched is aimed straight at the heart of somebody. I can picture you wearing it now in a color like purple or chartreuse or coral — the round neck making you look all innocence, you faker. Pretty smart of you, too, to think of matching the grosgrain arrows and belt with a short bead choker! What's that? You never got slimmed down at the waistline or anyplace else? I'm not frowning— just thinking. That you ought to see page twenty-six and send for reducing chart. But, meanwhile, a smart new shirtmaker will help keep those bulges a secret. Look closely at the one in rayon crepe with the dagger buttons. (Arrows, daggers— -is it safe 'round here do you think?) The V neck and long mid-section tucks do wonders for the figure. This has a zipper— and all the time we figured that was just a post-war dream! By the way— remember the shirtmaker I showed back in June that you fell for so hard? The one with the buttons up the side? You can have practically the same thing for Fall if you like. It's in "Whippet cloth"— an all rayon gabardine. Costs about nine dollars, and 111 tell you where if you write me. • I know you're still plenty envious over the way the half -pints have been hopping around all Summer in those frisky pinafores of theirs. Never mind — your day has come. With jumper dresses designed to slim the frame like a hunger strike. Looks like a rich diet I know— the one Fve had sketched. But take note of the way it darts clear to the waist and that tucked mid-riff trick again. YouH find out for yourself what the flat peplum effect can do for you. _ Because when you see this( in kelly green or coral or purple, you re going to want it like mad. And— if I know you— what you want, you get. Maybe you think I'm asleep on my feet because I don't tell you to head for dresses with waistlines plunged way down low. No, pal. I know that there's talk about lower belts, but they're hard to take at the start. So I say wait a while to see what happens. If it's a real trend, not a false alarm, well do it up super in date dresses later on but right now it would be kinda foolish of us to scramble around busting up the old nest egg and find out later that it's been a budget-breaking false alarm. Right? Right! * * * * Come to think of it, why don't 1 hot-foot out for some Fall duds myself 'stead of sitting here all day talking? For news regarding the whereabouts of the dresses sketched, send me a postcard or letter %-winging. Or, if clothes in general just jet you down, write me all, and we'll see what's to be done. Marjorie Bailey, MODERN SCREEN, 149 Madison Avenue New l^rJ^^J^^B^oo^now. The housewife's friend When this gsy calendar was hung No hole was left to gape, For neither nail nor t&ck was used. "What was ? Why.Texcel Tape/ And when the little woman paints Her work is clean and neat . For Texcel Tape helps do a job That hubby couldn't beat. So many things About a house This Texcel Tape can do, from wrapping up to fastening down In place of string or glue . For Texcel is an improved (ape Whose stick-urn's" bonded on . It wont come oii, it won't dry out, Ks one, like grASS and lawn. Since all the Texcel Tape that's made \ Is being used for war, Buy Bonds and S&mps 'til Victory Returns it to your store. Texcel Tape CELLOPHANE TAPE STICKS WITH A TOUCH Made by Industrial Tape Corporation A Division of Johnson & Johnson Hew RmjHTurinh w.l