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Reversible Raincoats Make
Smart Suits for Street Wear
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ID EVERSIBLE raincoats have
been in style just long enough
for the older ones to wear out and
become shabby looking. However,
in most cases, it is just the gabar
dine side which is worn and spotted,
while the tweed or solid colored in
side is almost as good as new.
Your first job in remodeling
this type of coat is to inspect it
carefully for worn spots. If it is too
badly worn out along the sleeves or
shoulders and will require too
much cutting away, then don’t try
to stretch enough material out of it
to make a dress or suit for your
self. It can be used to much better
advantage for daughter who
wears a smaller size.
Since these raincoats have had
the hardest of wear, your cleaning
job will have to be tops. This can
be done at home with a good dry
cleaner and thorough pressing, or
it can be done professionally. Take
particular care to see that all spots
are removed before you start
working.
When you finally take scissors in
hand, remove the gabardine or out
side first. Then remove the collar,
pocket flaps and front closing from
both sides. Press the remainder of
the material, open carefully, and
separate the coat at the waist.
After you have decided on a defi
nite style, the material is easy to
lay out and pin on the pattern.
Sometimes this takes a bit of fit
ting, but don’t be discouraged, as
with a little moving about you can
If you have a reversible raincoat . . .
make the material fit the pattern.
A shirt-waist style in a dress—
this type using a minimum of
material—is a good style, or an
other of the classic types is also
an excellent choice, both from the
point of view of material and type
of wear desired from this fabric.
Another little detail which you will
want is slashed pockets bound with
a contrasting colored tape or rib
bon and closed as they are on
ready-made dresses.
A bolero type, too, is easily made
from this type of material. This
is a particularly smart choice if
the top part will not make a well
fitted bodice to a dress, and too,
the dress will need no collar and
the sleeves can be made three-quar
ter length. A smart touch is to trim
the sleeves and opening of the front
of the bolero in contrasting ribbon
and have a belt to match the trim.
The slim skirt should be fitted as
carefully as possible. You will un
doubtedly have plenty of material
at your disposal because these coats
are made much larger than your
skirts. Be sure to select a pattern
or style, however, that has a seam
in the front, directly down the
center as this will, of course, be
open or cut in the material you
are using. Basting, pressing and
Make it into a smart dress.
sewing, however, will enable you to
make a neat closing of the material
in front.
Wool Garments Need
Care in Tailoring
Since a dress is much smaller
than the original coat, you will have
plenty of material for generous
seam allowances. Even if the pat
tern calls for narrow seam allow
ances, make them wider. Work on
a flat surface and press each seam
before it joins another.
All woolen garments should be
machine stitched at all points. The
stitch well, it should be as short
as is practical for the fabric, and
you are the best judge of that.
Over-casting, whipping and slip-
Spring Fashion Notes
If you’re dressing for business,
then you’ll want one of the new
soft woolen bolero suits or dress
maker suits that make one look so
exceedingly smart. Choose your
colors carefully and select accesso
ries with an eye to color.
If you are choosing a striped coat,
look for loose sleeves (that help you
wear suits underneath so easily) and
slit pockets.
Strictly Streamlined
Martha Vickers, now appear
ing in a Warner Brothers picture,
“The Big Sleep,” is wearing a
black wool jersey blouse with a
striped taffeta collar and cuffs
to match the peacock blue and
black striped taffeta skirt.
stitching are commonly used in
tailoring.
You’ll find bastings all-important
when working with a woolen gar
ment. The seams should not be
stretched or the stitching will seem
tight and ill-fitting. Consider the
price of wool as compared with
some of the cottons and rayons,
even though you are working on re
claimed material, and you will want
to work with it carefully. The re
sults will well repay your efforts.
A well-tailored garment even
though made at home can look as
though it were handled by an expert
tailor.
Another small pointer which
is well to remember when working
with wool, is to hang the garment
when you are not working on it,
and also to keep the skirt or bodice
hung while the other is being
worked on.
To cover the pocket openings as
suggested previously, cut strips of
lining fabric 1% inches wide and
the length of the opening plus 1
inch. Press or baste Va inch seams
around all edges of the strip.
Baste the right side of the open
ings, keeping fabric smooth. Stitch
strips on edges. Press with a damp
cloth. These strips will be hidden
by the pockets. If the material is
a smooth, dark fabric a band of
contrasting ribbon would be very
becoming.
As finishing touches to the gar
ment, a complete pressing job is
in order. Use a damp muslin cloth
and do take your time. Here, more
than on any other material, press
ing is the secret to successful tail
oring.
Adjusting to Make
Clothes Fit Well
Home sewing gives you a won
derful opportunity for making
things fit. Slight alterations on
ill-fitting garments spell the dif
ference between good and bad
grooming.
For lengthening a dress, a fold
ed band of contrasting material
may be added to the dirndl type
of skirt. The band, when finished
should be about 5 inches wide
for a youngster’s garment and
7 inches wide for the adult.
A concealed piecing at the top
of a skirt can also serve to
lengthen a skirt. Use a bolero for
concealing purposes.
If the sleeves of a dress are
out-of-date, rip them out and re
make them. The current trend in
the cap sleeve makes it possible
to have new sleeves even if there
is only a small amount of mate
rial.
Proper sleeve padding is im
portant. Ready-made pads may
be purchased reasonably, or they
may be made from the same ma
terial as the garment. Baste
them in and fit before actually
attaching them.
For bagginess at the back of
the skirt of a dress, take out
the back waistline seam and side
seams of the skirt. Raise the back
of the skirt just enough to bring
the side seams into line. Re-fit
side seams and even the hem
line.
In the market for a spring coat?
They’re featherweight, and made of
very fine woolens. Big checks and
plaids are common in the shortie
coat; soft shades in the other types.
Deep pockets are an important fea
ture as are wide, shiny belts which
accentuate the waist.
Three - quarter - length coats are
still very much in the picture, and
cool but dressy.
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IF YOU’RE all agog about
A who’s going to portray whom
in “Forever Amber,” here are
the most recent casting addi
tions: Peggy Gumming, the
young English actress, has the
role of “Amber,” of course, and
Cornel Wilde is the dashing “Bruce
Carlton.” Paul Guilfoyle, Clyde
Cook and John Rogers are “Jim
my - the - Mouth,” “Deadeye” and
“Blueskin” respectively. Twentieth
Century-Fox is doing it in techni
color, and the production has al
ready gone before the cameras,
with John Stahl directing.
Osa Massen, who has a featured
role in RKO’s “Deadline at Dawn,”
was a photographer and film cutter
before she became an actress. Lat
er, when she was a star in her na-
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OSA MASSEN
tive Copenhagen, she pitched in and
cut and edited her own pictures.
And she’s still at it—she now
makes a weekly photographic rec
ord of Susan Hayward’s twins; the
girls became friendly while in
“Deadline at Dawn.”
Cass Daley had a beautiful dream
the other night. She dreamt that
she was in the White House, singing
as she never sang before. And her
accompanist—President Harry Tru
man, of course. Now her one am
bition is to make that dream come
true.
Housewives, take a bow! Profes
sor Quiz says housewives usually
make out the best on his program,
with doctors, lawyers and teachers
on the rear ranks. And he should
know. He’s had contestants from
every state in the Union on his
Thursday night radio show, and
there have been some from Canada,
Europe and South America.
While Ingrid Bergman was mak
ing “Saratoga Trunk” she also
made an abridged version of it for
herself, shooting it in color with her
own 16 mm. camera. Gary Cooper
was camera man for the few shots
of herself which she included. She
began making her own pictorial rec
ord of movie - making in Holly
wood shortly after she arrived
there; “Casablanca” turned out so
well in her miniature version that
she attempted a more ambitious
record of “Saratoga Trunk.” Inci
dentally, she read “Saratoga Trunk”
aloud, when it came out, to perfect
her English, and was so much im
pressed by “Clio,” the Creole hero
ine, that she envied the actress
who’d play her—and got the role
herself.
—*
Teresa Wright dreamed for years
of having her name in lights on
Broadway; then she made her de
but in “Our Town”—and had to
change her name, because her
name was Muriel, and there was
another Muriel Wright on the Equi
ty rolls. Teresa’s her middle name.
Ricardo Cortez is resuming his
acting career after four years’ re
tirement from the screen. He’ll re
turn in Republic’s “The Twisted
Circle,” starring Adele Mara, and
Mill play a suave villain.
British actresses seem to be step
ping into the lead in a lot of our
pictures lately. Lilli Palmer, a Brit
ish film star, has been signed to a
long-term contract by United States
Pictures, the new producing com
pany headed by Joseph Bernhard
and Milton Sperling. Her first as
signment will be the leading role
in “Cloak and Dagger,” in which
Gary Cooper will play the lead.
Grace Albert, a “Crime Doctor”
regular, is a successful business
woman as well. She’s purchasing
agent and eastern sales manager
for her mother’s fruit cake busi
ness, operated in Minnesota.
ODDS AND ENDS—Ted Collins. Kate
Smith's manager, has lined up Kay Mil
land, Cary Grunt, Dorothy Lamour and
Olivia De Havillund for guest broadcast
on the Kate Smith show. ... United Artists
is so pleased with Tom Brenemun’s first
picture, "Breakfast in Hollywood,” that
he’s been signed to make a picture a year.
• . . Though Joan Caulfield's first film,
“Miss Susie Slagle's," is just being re
leased, Joan’s already been named in eight
polls as the most promising new star of
1946. . . . Ellen Andrews and her Belgian
! shepherd dog started their theatrical ca
reers in the same Orson Welles produo-
I tion . . . but the dog’s now retired.
For Supper Simplicity, Prepare It in Advance
(See Recipes Below)
Simple Suppers
Feel rushed on wash day? Too
tired to put together a big meal?
That’s the way a
fi/ lot of our home
'gL makers feel, so
|H you’re not the
only one. But I
\ have some nice
\ * cures for those
1 washday blues
with a number of
quick dinners, or suppers, if you
prefer calling a simple meal that
instead of the other.
The trick to making mealtime
easy on washday is to get as much
of the supper together before you
become involved with washday.
Make a jellied salad while you’re
waiting for the breakfast stragglers
to come down to eat, and prepare a
casserole that can be refrigerated
until baking time, and plan to have
soft canned, chilled fruit with home
made cookies as a dessert. Round
these main foods out with beverage,
bread and butter and your dinner’s
prepared.
There are loads of casserole
dishes that won’t suffer any by be
ing refrigerated before baking, and
I’ve selected a few of these to pass
on to you today. Cheese is good
and very nourishing too, if you want
a substitute for meat. Leftover veg
etables combined with shreds of
meat from the Sunday roast also
whip up nicely into one of those all
inclusive entrees for washday.
How would you like to serve this
Cheese and Noodle Pie? Yes, it’s
actually made like a pie and is
served simply by slicing in wedges.
Cheese and Noodle Pie.
(Serves 4 to 5)
2 tablespoons shortening or
bacon drippings
2 tablespoons chopped, green
pepper
1 cup milk
2 bouillon cubes
1 cup soft bread crumbs
2 eggs, beaten
Vi teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons grated onion
2 cups coked medium noodles
(4 ounces, uncooked)
Wedges of American cheese
Melt shortening in pan, add green
pepper and saute for 5 minutes,
O/i then add milk
// and bouillon
V O A cubes. Heat until
cubes are dis
/yA V?4r's solved. Add re
maining ingredi-
I ents, except
cheese and turn
-ILy into a buttered
baking dish, a nine-inch pie plate.
Bake in a moderately slow (325-de
gree) oven for 35 minutes, or until
the custard is set. Cut 3 slices of
cheese, and then cut these into 6
wedges. Place on top of the hot pie,
Lynn Says
Eat More Eggs: They’re "in
season” now, plentiful and eco
nomical. You’ll like these savory
I ways for preparing them:
Make eggs into an omelet, add
ing IV2 cups of soft bread crumbs
(for 4 eggs) to the fat in the pan
before pouring the egg mixture
in to cook. This gives a crispy,
crunchy omelet.
Omelet with herbs? Yes, in
deed, they’re fine. Use any one
of the following; chopped chives
or parsley; chervil, basil, thyme,
tarragon, sweet marjoram or
fennel.
If you’re scrambling eggs,
make them glorified by adding
frizzled dried beef or ham;
chopped sauteed mushrooms;
leftover vegetables.
While you’re baking eggs, add
little touches to make them more
attractive. Partially cook bacon,
fit around a muffin tin before
breaking in the eggs. Or, sprin
kle eggs in custard cups with
Line individual dishes with rice,
break in egg and serve with
mushroom sauce.
I
Lynn Chambers' Menus
Baked Stuffed Fish
Anchovy Sauce Fried Potatoes
•Stuffed Beets
Lettuce Salad Rolls
Chocolate Cream Pie
Beverage
•Recipe Given
the sharp points to the center. In
crease oven temperature to moder
ately hot (400 degrees) and bake
10 minutes to melt and brown the
cheese. Cut pie into wedges and
serve piping hot.
Leftover vegetables need not fur
nish good material for the garbage
pail. If you have several of them,
combine them into delightful tim
bales for supper with a cheese sauce
to go with them. A cheese sauce is
easily made by melting % pound of
cheese with Vs cup of milk in the top
part of the double boiler while the
timbales are baking.
Vegetable Timbales.
(Serves 4 to 6)
IV2 cups cooked peas
IVi cups cooked, drained corn
1 cup drained, canned tomatoes
1 tablespoon chopped onion
IVi cups soft bread crumbs
3 eggs
Vx cup melted butter or substitute
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients with a fork
and add seasoning to taste. Pour
into seven buttered custard cups
and bake in a pan of water in a
moderate (350-degree) oven for 45
to 50 minutes. Serve with cheese
sauce.
If you are using all the eggs
which rightfully belong to the diet,
there’s no better way to prepare
them than curried. Here is a dish
that can be prepared in the morn
ing—yes, stuff the eggs and make
the cream sauce. Then 15 minutes
or so before dinner, light the oven
and pop them in to heat.
Curried Deviled Eggs.
(Serves G)
12 hard-cooked eggs
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon grated onion
Mayonnaise or salad dressing
Salt and pepper
3 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons flour
V/t teaspoons curry powder
3 cups milk
3 cups cooked peas
V 2 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon sugar
Halve eggs lengthwise. Remove
yolks. Mash. Add mustard, onion,
and enough salad dressing to moist
en. Season to taste with salt and
pepper. Refill egg whites with yolk
mixture. Heat butter, blend in flour
and curry powder; gradually add
milk. Cook over boiling water, stir
ring constantly
[ A until thick. Sea
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C- a.\ utes. Arrange 4
J I halved eggs in
-*——L_ individual serv
ing or baking dishes and pour sauce
over eggs. Combine peas, sage and
sugar and arrange in border around
the eggs. Bake in a moderately hot
(375-degree) oven for 15 minutes or
until thoroughly heated.
A dessert that can be started bak
ing before the Curried Devil Eggs ia
this quick and easy Fudge Cake. It
takes it easy on shortening.
Fudge Cake.
(Eight-inch square pan)
2 squares chocolate
Vx cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
Vi cup sifted flour
Vx teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts
Melt chocolate and shortening to
gether. Blend in other ingredients.
Bake in a greased square pan, in
a moderate (350-degree) oven for 35
1 minutes.
Grooving ’Em
When crusty old John McGraw
managed the New York Giants, he
invariably instructed pitchers. One
day the winning run was on second
and the Giants had a rookie on the
mound. McGraw called time, told
the rookie to waste a pitch before
going to work on the batter.
The pitcher promptly grooved one,
which was laced for a triple. Mc-
Graw went for his pitcher and
asked, with blue-bordered decora
tions, “Didn’t I tell you to waste
one?”
“But I did,” protested the baffled
rookie, "my pitch was right at his
waistl”
LOOK, NO HANDS!
Wise guy—When it comes to eat
ing, you’ve got to hand it to Venus
de Milo.
Come on—Why?
Wise guy—How else could she
eat?
Lullaby
Among the students of his class
in elocution an instructor had one
very ambitious young man whose
vanity exceeded his ability as an
orator. The professor was pretty
discouraged one day as he took time
out to give the youth a private les
son.
“When you finish your address,”
he told the misguided pupil, “bow
very gratefully, and leave the plat
form on tiptoes.”
“On tiptoes?” echoed the student.
“Why?”
“So you won’t wake up the audi
ence,” was the instructor’s reply.
Good Question
A rich, pompous man was can
tering along a dusty trail one after
noon when he spied a trim farm
house at the edge of the forest and
decided to stop for water.
He asked a little boy standing near
the house to hold his horse.
“Does he bite?” queried the child.
“No,” was the reply.
“Or kick?”
“No.”
“Does he try to run away?”
“No.”
The child shrugged his shoulders.
“Then why do you want me to hold
him?”
Over the Line
There was a Swede who lived
practically on the border between
Minnesota and Wisconsin. For
years he wasn’t certain which state
he lived in. Finally he got a state
surveyor to make a special investi
gation of the problem.
“You live,” decided the surveyor,
“in Wisconsin.”
The Swede threw his hat into the
air with great glee.
“Thank heaven,” he cried. “No
more of those terrible Minnesota
winters.”
PERPLEXED BURGLAR
A young man was on trial,
charged with breaking into the
same millinery shop four times. The
judge asked the defendant the reas
on for the repeat performances. He
answered:
“Each time I stole a different
hat for my wife. She can’t make
up her mind.”
Nifty Answer
An autoist was motoring through
the mountains of Colorado when he
came upon a small village tucked
away in a valley. He stopped when
he met a native and asked, “I
say, have any big men been born in
this town?”
“No,” answered the local man.
“Just little babies.”
Sure Are
Mrs. Brown—My husband is join
ing the Masons.
Mrs. Green—Well, I don’t know
them well, but I will say their jars
are nice.
Grumpy Gob
Sailor (sitting in barber chair)—
“Cut all three short.”
Barber—“ Which three?”
Sailor—“ Whiskers, hair and chat
ter.”
Dull Reading
Wife—l can read you like a book,
John.
Husband—Why don’t you then? In
a book, you skip what you don’t like,
but in me you linger over it.
