Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)

Cheery harem pillows particularly adapted to hammocks, porch swings and shady reading nooks crap Here's a lesson from the clothes and scraps to make By Lois THE economy wave among the motion pictureproducers may be causing a furor among studio workers in Hollywood, but it is bringing forth some surprisingly helpful suggestions for the low cost of home adornments for the women. In practically every studio in the Cinema City, price restriction following upon the heels of lavish expenditure is forcing genius to devise new methods to maintain the same luxurious display at less than one-tenth of the original expenditures. Cushions! Is there any article of interior, or exterior, furnishings more subtly alluring than the various offsprings of the old-fashioned cushion? On the floor, the divan, the window seat; snuggled together in heaps at the heads of beds, chaise-longues or day beds; dotted profusely in patio corners, hammocks, porch swings and garden retreats! How to patch your pillows with effectiveness The harem pillows and hassock at the top are of long strips of sateen, in diversified colors. Black tape, or white, is interspersed for variety. The "innards11 of the huge mattress of "Sunrise11 filled half these pillows. The pillow just above shows how scraps may be inserted. The patch is part of Charles Farrell's dressing robe. The pillow below was made of taffeta from one of Madge Bellamy's "Colleen11 costumes. Note how lace is used to hide the piecing Madge Bellamy once wore most of this Janet Gaynor with cushions salvaged from Diane's dress in "Seventh Heaven" and other stars' lace gowns More pillows on pages 139 and 140 ho