No make-up is ever successful unless the skin is kept in a healthy condition, and a simple home beauty regime is one of the most important rules in all complexion care. This should include cleansing with a liquefying cleansing cream every! night after washing, toning the face and throat up with an astringent if needful, and massage with a good skin food.
'A little time given to patting around the eyes, which helps to ward off lines caused by eyestrain, and a stroke movement for brow massage should be included in the regime. This checks any tendency to brow lines which can spoil the look of youth.
Thin, loosely woven tweed skirts not only keep their shape and "sit" better but they also wear longer if lined. When a silk weighing not more than an ounce or an ounce and a half is chosen for the purpose the increased heaviness is almost unnoticeable. For the usual pleated back and front type take two pieces of yard-wide silk about three inches longer than the length of the finished lining, turn and press a hem at the lower edges, and make and press box pleats, the size of those on the skirt, up the middle. Lay the skirt flat on a table, place one piece of silk, on ít, fit its pleat into that of the and hem the lining, easing it hile, to the skirt hem, near the top. Tack or pin the silk pleat to the middle seam of the skirt. Should there be a dart in the skirt, make one in the lining to correspond, tack the lining to the side seam and to the waist and sew, allowing plenty of play, the lining to the top of the skirt pleat.
Line the second half in the same manner and hem the front breadth over the back one, catching it at the seams without letting the stitches come through to the front. Remove the superfluous part of the silk pleat and make a seam along the seam at the front of the skirt. Replace the belt and press the pleats heavily
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