Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen Marlon Da vies' Pan's Wardrobe (Continued from page 99) noon. The twenty-button glove is for very formal occasions and is not seen so often now, principally because many of the new evening gowns have puff sleeves or dropped shoulders that serve as sleeves. Such long gloves would detract from their smartness. If your cuff is fancy your glove must be plain. Balance in every part of a costume — that's the keynote of style. YOUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT Dear Miss Lane: Perhaps I shouldn't come to you with this but I've reached the point where I'm desperate. I simply adore lovely clothes. I study them in exclusive shop windows by the hour — and that's all the good it does me. I can't afford them. The dresses I do manage to buy are necessarily of cheap material and they look cheap, although some of them are kind of cute. Is there any way for me to be better dressed on twenty dollars a week? Is it wrong for a young girl to love nice clothes as I do? Jeannette My Dear Jeannette: Of course it isn't wrong to love beautiful clothes, even to the point of distraction. That's as natural for a woman as breathing. I believe I can help you best by telling you about a young girl who came to me a year ago in much the same predicament that you're in — and that thousands of other girls are in, too. Mildred very nearly wept in my office. She was taking the matter altogether too seriously. You have to make a sort of game of it . . . trying to see how smart you can look on a very little sum of money. We had a heart-to-heart talk, Mildred and I. That same evening she enrolled in a dressmaking class at a high school near her home. She didn't know one stitch from another but she was very much in earnest and she persevered. Three evenings a week she went to the school. It wasn't long before she acquired the knack of cutting out a dress and sewing it together properly. Soon her work ceased to have an amateurish look; it showed thoughtful care. She, like you, studied the gowns in exclusive shop windows and she grew amazingly clever at copying them. One day she discovered a magnificent material in one of the large stores marked down from thirty-five dollars a yard to ten dollars. It was hand-made by a French peasant family — a cream silk that could almost stand by itself. Woven in it were flowers of the most gorgeous shades you can imagine. She bought two and a quarter yards and made herself an adorable formal dress. Naturally she didn't require any trimming with such luscious material. She wore an inexpensive plain gold neck(Continued on page 103) LASHED BY DRIED BY WINTER'S EXTREMES arc HARD at -j Spend just 5 minutes a day with these marvelous Olive Oil preparations to keep your skin soft and beautiful! £ Every woman has struggled with the problem of preserving her beauty during Winter If outside exposure doesn't spoil her good looks — indoor heat does! Chilling winds crack the skin . . . make it red and rough. Over-heated homes and offices dry out its natural oils . . . rob the complexion of youth and loveliness. Simple 5 -Minute Beauty Treatment Don't deny yourself the thrill of winter sports! Stay out of doors as long as you like. But . . . protect your skin this easy way. Spend two minutes every night removing all dirt and make-up with Outdoor Girl Liquefying Cleansing Cream. Follow this with a thin film of nourishing Olive Oil Cream. Leave it on while asleep. In the morning, "pep up" your skin with Outdoor Girl Skin Freshener. Outdoor Girl Vanishing Cream comes next, as a protection for your skin and a smooth adherent base for powder. Now rouge your lips (using Lipstick or Lip and Cheek Rouge) and then the cheeks. Finish with Outdoor Girl Olive Oil Face Powder. If your skin is oily, use the Lightex blend. Should you prefer dry rouge, apply it after the powder. This morning routine takes only three minutes! Care of your skin is so delightfully simple when you use Outdoor Girl! For here is a complete assortment of exquisite beauty products, each with a base of pure, soothing Olive Oil. This famous ingredient is one of the most effective skin conditioners known to science. It not only beautifies the complexion but protects it, as well. So inexpensive, too! No excessive outlay necessary! You can purchase generous "purse-size" packages of exactly the same quality as the larger packages, for as low as 10c — and more economical sizes from 25c to $1.00 at leading chain, drug and department stores. If you want to sample 3 of the most popular Outdoor Girl Beauty Products, send 4c in stamps for liberal trial packages of the new Liquefying Cleansing Cream and the two Face Powders. Crystal Laboratories, 134 Willis Avenue, New York City. OUTDOOR GIRL BEAUTY PRODUCTS 101