Fall Fashion Notes, 1936

“Fall Fashion Notes from Evelyn Tobey,” from the October, 1936, issue of the Carolina Co-operator. And, yes, the article did refer to the shortiness of skirts.

Wear shortish skirts and make the degree of shortiness depend on the circumference of your hips and your ankles.

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

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

Have a jacket for every dress and have it 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 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 of 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. Perhaps if one had the shaggy overhanging eyebrows of Vice-President Garner, they might wish to do a little plucking but after all do not those same shaggy brows give him his interesting individuality in appearance?