Fall Fashion Notes from Evelyn Tobey, 1936

“Fall Fashion Notes from Evelyn Tobey” was on the same page as Jane McKimmon’s column for home demonstration women in the October 1936 issue of the Carolina Co-Operator. I wonder what the average housewife thought the following advice.

Wear shortish skirts and make the degree of the shortness depend on the circumference of our hibs and your ankles.

Wear one-inch heels for sports and two-inch for street dress. For evening wear a heel-less to spike-heel slipper according to your costume.

Get into your dresses up to your neck this fall, they are going to wear chokers.

Have a jacket for every dress and have it as short as is becoming to your style of beauty.

Wear your gloves every time you step outside your door.

Wear your corset in the house as well as on the street. If you die for it, better die in good form.

Don’t wear a bouquet unless it is just the thing in just that spot on your costume.

Make up to bring out your own beauty but be artful about it.

For hair arrangement, expose some if not all you’re your ears, for as collars and bust lines went up, so did the hair. No ear muffs this winter.

Plucked eyebrows have gone out of style.