The Archive · 1937

Dresses for Part

Marlene Dietrich may look too, too lovely in floating tea gowns she wears din the screen, but that doesn't make trailing tea gowns quite right for the woman who cooks the dinner with her own two hands and serves it to her gübsts. Miss Dietrich does not dress that way herself unless she ig plá$ihd a part. A practical viewpoint is a good thing to have, and there arë hi and hostess gowlls.

If you are havifig coiffure problems, do go (0 an expert hairdresser at least once, then work with him, submitting your own ideas, conside: ing, his, finally combining both and "ding up with a hairdress which flatters you and is in keeping with your, mode of lite.

The {F€nd is toward fore solidarity in the family wardrobe.

Sii€ the attractive mothers on the stage and in society, and their attractive daughters, began choosing dresses from the same bolt of cloth, clannishness has developed to the point where dad's necktie, junior's shorts, sister's dress and sun suit and mother's frock all match.

One chic wife and mother who wanted to establish an éxclüsivé style theme for the faifiily asked a designer of children's clothes in which appliques and embroideries of peasant inspiration are always a distinguishing feature, fo Work out hand-mades "coat-of-arms" in checked linen and sail cloth.

These two summer fabrics are equally appropriate for clothes for little boys ahd) little girls, for mother and Yor dad's neckties, if not his slacks or jacket.

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