22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1971
Ladies,
Have You Heard?
By Doris Thomas, Extension Home Economist
Fashion, A Background Glance
In great part, fashion is a reflection of its time a seasonal
adjustment to the “now” happenings and feelings. With pressing
problems and the urge to look back to a pre
technology era, fashion expresses today’s kaleido
scopic living and provides a way to indulge in
nostalgia.
So as fall emerges with its back-to-school
excitement, home and leisure activities, and
career wardrobing, it’s time to add a few new
wearables to the clothes closet
The great assortment of longs and shorts in
shirts, skirts, pants, dresses, tunics, and toppers
make it challenging to create a special individual
look item by item. Separates that combine or
make-it-alone are today’s way to build a go-every-
where wardrobe.
Skirts up to here and down to there have
been around and still are. Now the same thing
goes for pants The hot pants
and slightly longer winter ver
sion “warm pants” are followed
by bootleggers straight, mod
erately-flared or boot high
knickers and, of course, long
pants The big fashion news is
in combining the two for in
finite varieties
The short of it all includes
zip-up or button-front dresses
over shorts. There is the hot
pant jumpsuit or shortall
sheathed with a wrap skirt and
vested or boleroed The little
pants partnered with any length
tunic, vest, mini-flap or longer
cutaway skirt And the great
pretenders, pantskirts, one
piecers that look like two, pants
plus skirt
Longer pants take on the
same kind of pants-plus cos
tuming. Knickers, including the
bibbed knickerall, are coming
on strong with new patterns and
styles in action fabrics and
doubleknits.
The classic look of the 40’s
and 50’s is making a comeback
in sweaters and sweater sets
Crew necks and that boxy,
squared-off shape are showing
up with bold appliques
In fact, classic lines are being
seen in coordinates that may
set new trends Watch for blaz
ers and pleated skirts, tailored
suits and pantsuits with should
er interest, knee-covering
lengths, notched lapels and
sleeve buttons.
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Meanwhile, the real stress is
on ethnic, folklore and Western
styling with focus points, such
as, smocking, drawstring neck
lines, balloon sleeves, Juliets
and elasticized effects. The Gib
son Girl length, just above the
ankles, provides nostalgia with
a feminine look that is also
comfortable.
The desire for wide open
spaces and awareness of
ecology and the environment
are expressed in nature color
ings and rustic textures worked
in ethnic, Western and Ameri
cana designs. Many shades of
brown and grape wine with
beetroot in between a deep
brownish-wine color are the
pace setters. Earthy colors are
often spiked with bright red,
gold or green. And brights lead
for the primitive motifs.
In fabrics, the down-home
feeling is there in denim looks.
A carry over from spring, this
rough-and-ready washable and
its speckled looks-like-denim
cousins in polyester blends, cor
duroy and doubleknits is given
to strong striping and Western
flavor. But the newsiest look
features primitive and Indian
madras with denim.
Corduroy is a perennial fa
vorite and always adaptable to
new patternings. Look for the
newer ribless kind as well as
the pinwales and widewales of
previous seasons.
Those shapej-etaining double- ,
Kims ana oonded materials are
in every fashion and fiber cate
gory. Washable leather looks
are getting new treatment with
emphasis on a dull, smooth sur
face geared to the big country
Western theme.
Pattern is everywhere, often
with a remarkable mixing of
prints, stripes, and plaids. The
startling effect is seen in mat
ing print shirts with striped
pants or skirt, relying on colors
and texture to hold the impact
together. This movement may
be an outgrowth of the popu
larity of patchwork prints.
Meanwhile, great grand
mother's needlework artistry is
taking on new free-wheeling
translations. The penchant for
patches offers a new note with
bright splashes being scattered
here and there or as pockets
and trim. The all over pieced
together look has patches print
ed in intricate designs, many
colors, and fool-the-eye texture
looks on all kinds of fabric. A
melange of madras, challis and
paisley live side by side in the
pattern and piecing picture
Madras, a printed type, is some
thing new to watch.
Other American inspirations
and borrowings from the 30’s
and 40’s run from Indian blan
ket arrows, wheat and geo
metric designs to wallpaper
prints, ribbon stripes, and trunk
lining patterns. In keeping with
the return to nature and times
past, there is great emphasis
on folk patterns reminiscent of
Azetc, Greek, and Balkan coun
tries as well as our own cultural
inheritance.
From all of these influences
and from technological know
how, fall fashion delivers an ar
ray of easy care, comfortable
clothing, and accessories to
meet individual interpretations
of the “now” scene.
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How to Use Self-Service Dry Cleaning
The Chester County home
economics extension service has
forwarded some timely advice on
use of self-service dry cleaning
machines.
Some Don’ts
Items you should not clean in
self-service machines include:
Raincoats with a water-
repellent finish that the machine
can’t replace.
Electric blankets may have
their insulation damaged.
Pillows and comforters may
lose their shape and resiliency
Leather may become brittle,
Rubber loses its elasticity
Felt may shrink
Metallic yarn tarnishes
sometimes.
Plastics may dissolve or
become stiff or soft.
Flock and lacquer prints
frequently lose their pattern.
Stiffened fabrics may become
soft.
Embossed fabric often loses its
texture.
When To Use
Self-service dry cleaning isn’t
designed to give clothing a
professionally pressed look, but it
gives good results for articles
that don’t require careful
pressing, for instance, sweaters,
knit wear, non-electric blankets,
draperies or slip covers.
Machine cleaning doesn’t
always remove wear wrinkles,
but the process itself doesn’t add
any new ones.
Some coin-cleaning businesses
provide a water spray to use on
clothing before you put it into the
machine to help remove wear
wrinkles.
How To Use Self-Service
When using coin-operated dry
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cleaning machines, you’ll get
best results if you take time to
prepare clothing for cleaning.
Turn cuffs down and pockets
inside out, close zippers, and turn
sweaters and other knit items to
the wrong side.
Sort articles by weight and
color.
Don’t put heavy items with
lighter ones in the same load.
Separate dark-colored gar
ments from light-colored ones
because dark fabrics pick up lint
easily.
If spray guns are available,
spray food and perspiration
stains with water.
Don’t use water on oil or grease
spots or on fabrics that show
water marks.
Have a professional dry
cleaner treat garments that
contain spots of unknown origin
or stains, such as blood or milk,
that may not dissolve in dry
cleaning solvent. The solvent
used in coin-operated machines
could set such stains.
Prevent curtains and
draperies from twisting by
folding the panels once from top
to bottom and pinning the ends
with large safety pins.
Remove all items from the
machine immediately after it
stops, and hang each garment on
a hanger.
Creases and pleats
improve with hanging.
Most items will be ready to
wear when they come out of the
machine, but some may need
touching up with an iron.
It’s usually best to let coin
cleaned garments hang overnight
before pressing them.
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