Expert advice from leading fashion authorities on how to be well and suitably dressed

for any occasion, and how to make the most of that very important fashion dollar, are con-
tained in a series of articles issued by the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union

as part of the consumer service initiated by their union label programme.
The following is the fourth installment of a series reprinted in part from their article:

All-of-a-piece is the look
to aim for. Achieve it by co-
ordinating your colors, cutting
down on “extras.”

Basic styles with interest-
ing accessory changes can
double the size of your ward-
robe.

Casual clothes in elegant
materials can take you every-
where in comfort and style.

Designer or manufacturers’
labels add distinction to your
wardrobe — and do a lot of
your fashion thinking for you.

Extremes are dangerous—
unless you can afford to throw
away a dress when it begin
to bore you. .

Freedom of movement is a
fashion “must.” The hobble
skirt is not for the dance floor.
“Drippy” clothes look awk-
ward. Spike heels are not for
sport clothes—and not for
easy walking any time.

Glitter — the kind you get
from satin and sequins and
dazzling jewelry—is strictly
for after-five.

Hats and hair go together—
for better or worse. The new
“Garbo” hats with swagger
brims demand longer hair.
Turbans should show little or
no hair at the back and sides.
A hat’s most important angle
is the profile. Always buy a
hat standing up, seeing your-
self full length.

Indifferent—a way never
to be. Always care how
you’re dressed, even if you
think no one will see you.

Jealousy of another wom-
an’s beautiful taste may be
just the spur you need to
dress better yourself. Be
“jealous” with a clear head
and a sharp eye for good
ideas you can use.

Knitted clothes are hand-
some, easy to pack, easy to

What They Wore...

care for—but be sure they
are easy on your figure.

Leather shoes, bags, belts
should be treated with re-
spect worthy of their value.
Polish shoes, keep heels neat,
belt buckles and handbag
catches shining.

‘WVystery - woman” and
“Marilyn Monroe” are glam-
orous fashion adjectives —
when you can live up to
them. ‘Monotonous” and
“mussed” are death to your
fashion aspirations.

Necklines should flatter
your face and the length of
your neck; soft, rounded col-
lars if you are thin; scoop or
V necklines (no turtlenecks)

‘if your face is full above a

short neck.

Old-fashioned: the idea that
red heads can’t wear red,
that tweeds can’t come to the
city, that cotton is just for
summer, that shoes and hand-
bag must match—that black
kid gloves are “old.”

Pants—to be worn only if
you look well in them (fore,

aft and sideways!).

Quick-dry and no-iron fab-
rics are important, especially
if you travel a lot. To be at
your best in them, slick up
the edges with an iron no
matter what the directions
promise.

Remember to: hang up your
clothes on a well-shaped
hanger as soon as you. take
them off. Use shoe trees; keep
plastic bags over clothes you
don’t wear often. rie os

Separates are wonderful
when they become go-togeth-
ers! They should be well-
planned, well-tailored, well-
coordinated. Leave the mixed-
up fortune-teller look to the

gypsies.

by PHYLLIS JOYCE

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| Trends—it’s better to spot
them coming than going. And

better to buy long-run fa-
shions than those that are
just hit-and-run. Prescrip-
tion: Read at least one fashion
magazine a month and the
newspaper fashion columns
daily.

Underneath it all: efficient
underpinnings; strapless bras
and half-slips if there’s even
a suspicion a strap might
show; dark slips with dark
clothes; full slips for see-
through fabrics.

Versatility is the mark of
a good buy. The silk dress you
can wear under a day coat
or to an evening party. The
coat-and-dress that look well
together or separately. The
raincoat that’s smart even
when the sun is shining. .

White touches are flatter-
ing. But keep them beauti-
fully white.

X stands for mistakes.
Learn from the ones you
make. Never make the same
one twice.

Year-round fashions are
wonderful buys. Silk, linen,
cotton, tweed, wool jersey,
sheer wool, challis and cordu-
roy are all-climate fabrics.

Zero hour—never wait till
then to shop. Even before you
are ready to make your pur-
chase, shop around, know
where to go for the things
you want and take time to
try them on.

A further installment in
this series will be reprinted in
the next issue of the Lumber
Worker.

horseshoe pitching,

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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Re

PAST-PRESIDENT of the Office Employees International

Union in Ottawa, June Cassey, has had her painting entitled
“Wiartinella” selected from several hundred paintings for
exhibiting in Ottawa’s City Hall. Mrs. Cassey is the secretary
in the Canadian Labour Congress magazine department.

At Okanagan Falls

Oliver Auxiliary Holds
Best Interior Picnic

In an attempt to out-do
their popular socials and
dances, the Oliver Ladies
Auxiliary held one of the
most successful picnics staged
by the IWA in the Interior,
for members of the Oliver
Sub-Local July 21, at Holi-
day Park, Okanagan Falls.

The ladies provided free ice
cream, pop, hot dogs and
thirty dozen corn-on-the-cob
for the attending IWA mem-
bers and their families.

Games were held for both
kiddies and adults and in-

cluded races, tug - of - war,
and a

corn husking contest. This

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Parents who want their children to have a good education

may have to pull a few wires: TV, hi-fi, and ignition —Clarion-

Ledger, Jackson, Miss.
*

*

Watch thy figure, lest it be not watched at all-—Outlook,

Laurel, Mont.
*

*

The older one gets, the longer it takes to get to the door if

last event was promoted at
the last moment by the ladies
and proved an ingenious way
of getting the corn husked in
a hurry.

One of the most popular
events at the picnic was the
softball game held between
the ladies and men in which,
much to the surprise of the
men, the ladies were declared
the winners. Some of them
were heard to mutter after-
wards that the ladies certain-
ly knew how to keep score
even if they didn’t know how
to play ball.

The ladies of course ig-
nored their remarks and sug-
gested to the men that any
time they wanted to know
how to play the game they
would teach them.

The Auxiliary announces a
beach party has been planned
in the near future for the
adults. The Sub-Local mem-
bers will be notified as to the
time and place.

> MNMMUT

Plan Now

opportunity knocks.—Post, Paris, Idaho.
* * *

The man who has everything is bothered less by it if it
includes a wife-——Union-Gazette, Port Jervis, N.Y.
* * *

There are two kinds of nurses, registered and practical; but
sometimes they overlap so the registered marry patients.—
Herald, Safety Harbor, Fla.

SICK LIST

KING'S DAUGHTERS Duncan; Mrs. B. Dixon, Caycuse

ith
| THE CosTuMES OF ANCIENT GREECE,
HOME OF ALEXANDER,THE GREAT,

HAD NO PEER FOR GRACE AND COMFORT.
THE BASIC GARMENT OF THE GREEK

WOMAN WAS THE CHITON -A
RECTANGULAR PIECE OF WOOL OR LINEN

WHICH WAS DRAPED OVER THE BODY,
HELD BY A GIRDLE AT THE WAIST AND
FASTENED AT THE SHOULDER WITH

Clothes aren’t the only
things that can be co-
ordinated. For example:

1, Let the day you de-
frost your refrigerator also
be the day you plan meals
for the week and write out
grocery lists.

2. When you wash the
breakfast dishes, don’t put
them away.Get out your
gayest place mats and set
the table for lunch.

3. While you prepare

Beach; Mr. C. H. Davis, Lake
Sisters A. Pastor and Marge Sayce * sepa ¥ 2
Gee Le ot Local GPW Virled (cane Ae a craneee Diieant lunch, start the dinner and
the following patients in the King’s Fay Scyrup, Youbou; Mr. Archie -avoid that late - afternoon
Daughters Hospital July 3rd, distri- Martin, Cobble Hill; Mr. Buster An- rush. Make your dessert
buting candy, cigarettes and copies drew, Duncan: John Singh, Lake . a j
of the Western Canadian Lumber Cowichan; Gordon Knott, Lake Cow- and store in the fridge until

Worker.

Mr. H. Canning, Youbou; Mrs. John
Hayden, Lake Cowichan; Mr. Tin
Singh, Hillerest; Mr. lan Sutherland,
Duncan; Mr. Sawrn Singh Deal, Lake
Cowichan; Mr. Avdar Singh Sidhu,
Honeymoon Bay; Mr. Graham Hop-

r, Cobble Bay; Mrs. B. MacDonald,

ichan; E. Sutherland, Duncan.
Sisters Helene Lamont and Bea
James of the LA of Local 1-80, IWA,
visited the following patients in the
King’s Daughters Hospital, July 18,
distributing candy, cigaretts and
copies of the Western Canadian Lum-

Te

4. While you are in the
= kitchen cooking dinner, if
= you have five er ten min-
- utes between chores, mix =
up a batch of cookie or =

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baking time. =I
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THE HIMATION, COLORED AND :
EMBROIDERED, WAS

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EN WORN OVER THE CHITON.

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unean; Mrs. G. Grant, Mesachie - =
. i “ F Mrs. A. Wingo, Youbou; Mr. Harry = . =
peel ean aseen: irs. Wallaes Sanders, Duncan; Mr. A. V. Martin, __ pastry dough. Come baking &
Creelman, Lake Cowichan; Mrs. Jo- agar Peel ccna eae espe = day and you are two jumps =
aes: Once a gg! ly Auchinachie, Duncan; Mr. R. Woike, = ahead of the job. A sauce- =
Duncan. Lake er minagy Me, 4, Sinan, Honey: Pas of cream sauce is also =
Sistere Ada Mitchell and Lil Baker ™Oon Bay: Mr. G- ene ‘Hillcrest: (g a between-jobs idea. :
ie tan Cm at Lacal 10, WA viniied cae a Vecvigk “eoenes Mra, I . &
the following patients in the Kings’  stotter, Rune Caaescans shes kde, 5, Last but not least, mix =
Daughters Hospital distr pene are: Mitchell, Duncan; Mrs. J. Clayton, a little business with plea- —
cigarettes and copies of the Western = jtosachie Lake, Mrs. Rose Mayea,

sure when you sit down to

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Duncan; Mrs. E. Tappin, Lake Cow-

M. Amerkhan, Youbou; Mr. Gra- ichan; Mrs. Jean Moir, Duncan; Mrs.
ham Hi r, Cobble Hill; Mr. Gus A. Byrne, Cobble Hill; Mrs. Edna
Knight, Nanaimo; Mr. Val Evans, Benty, Duncan; Mrs. Mary Larson,
Dunean; Gale Jack, Duncan; lI. Dunean; Mrs. Harry Zwynenburg,
Allan, Duncan; Mrs. E. Sutherland, Duncan; Mrs. Ruby Peter, Duncan.

watch television.

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