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Clothing care tips for the couple Section Three New china design Once the honeymoon is over and the newlyweds get back to normal living, keeping up a new relationship, relationship, an apartment and one's self-- all at the same time -- can be tedious business. Although new relationships and apartments apartments require a cooperative cooperative effort, keeping one's self looking good is strictly a personal responsibility. One personal grooming (and briding!) problem that needs daily attention is clothing care. When it comes to cleaning clothing, clothing, two cannot live as cheaply as one. In fact, clothing care is one of those costs which simply doubles when two become one. Here, then, for the newlyweds newlyweds are some easy, economical economical and useful ways to keep clothing looking good forever after: • Solutions which contain contain alcohol, such as deodorants, deodorants, lotions and perfume, perfume, can upset the dyes in delicate fabrics and cause stains. Always allow these solutions to dry before dressing. • Perspiration can leave a permanent yellow discol oration and objectionable odor if a garment is worn repeatedly. Launder perspiration-stained perspiration-stained blouses, shirts and sweaters as soon as possible in cold-water wash. • Use a Helmac Lint Pic-Up® roller, made of a safe, durable, pressure- sensitive tape to rid clothing clothing of lint. A stiff brush can remove nap from natural natural fibers and diminish the look and life of the garment. garment. • Don't press stained or soiled clothing. The heat will set the stains and the pressure will force soil deeper into the fibers and damage the clothing. • Remove woolen pills (tiny balls which form on surface) from sweaters, hats, scarves and gloves with a Magic Sweater Brush™. • "Down" items can be laundered at home, but need lots of space in the washer. They should not be washed in a mixed load. Placing tennis shoes or a few tennis balls into the dryer with the "down" item helps to fluff it up in the drying process. Color sparks new engagement rings Partly because we live in a much more color-conscious color-conscious world, and partly because of the influence of a storybook romance, there's a trend toward new brides opting for engagement engagement rings that feature colored colored stones, reports the Jewelry Industry Council. When Princess Diana proudly exhibited her beautiful sapphire engagement engagement ring rimmed with small diamonds, she added impetus to the popularity of colored stone engagement engagement rings. Colored gemstones selected selected for engagement rings are usually one of the big three -- sapphire, ruby or emerald, but some brides favor pearls. Small wonder these beauties are chosen, for each has a claim in folklore to attributes attributes that add to wedded bliss. The sapphire, for example, example, was believed to bring health, wealth and wisdom, wisdom, according to ancient folklore. The ruby, which signifies contentment, also was renowned for its healing healing powers. The emerald, THE YOKED SKIRT'...in a bouffant gown of French peau d'ange lace and taffeta. Pearl-embroidered Alencon lace appliques form the high collar, circle the natural waistline and edge the skirt yoke above the fully gathered skirt with longer-than-chapel train. Bejeweled floral wreath. Cathedral length illusion veiling scalloped scalloped and caught in with rhinestones. LANGDALE, Royal Doulton's newest Majestic Fine China collection collection pattern, has a soft grey border with four stylized floral sprays and a geometric motif around the well, which is punctuated punctuated in the center with another floral spray, t vfàWSïy < *fôWGSy> «yfàWSVys <vtfê)M(s5iy> <y©w®,y> «yfàMSÿys ROYALLY INSPIRED -- When Princess Diana received her beautiful beautiful diamond-encrusted sapphire engagement ring, she started a trend toward colored stone betrothal rings that is fast growing reports the Jewelry Industry Council. Here, a handsome ruby is ringed with tiny diamonds in this bride-to-be's engagement ring, t whose wearers are purported purported to be lucky in love, is an ideal selection for an engagement engagement ring. Pearls, of course, stand for health, vitality and long life, and also are known to flatter any woman's complexion. The more conventional diamond or "love stone" stands for innocence, purity purity and an unquenchable in ner flame -- certainly a good auger for a new marriage. marriage. Today's new brides who choose a colored stone and combine it with a setting of diamonds claim the best of all possible worlds -- pairing pairing the diamond's beauty and folklore with the beauty beauty and folklore of the gem of their choice, t The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, February 15,1984 13 Newlyweds share even the mending In today's marriages, household chores transcend transcend traditional roles. He occasionally cooks, and she sometimes fixes the faucet. But who does the mending? Who sews on the missing buttons, darns the holes and fixes fallen hems and cuffs? According to a recent survey, conducted by The Singer Company, N. A.S.P.D., to determine America's mending habits, things have changed. Less than half (47.1 percent) of the mending is done by women in family settings. In fact, 48.8 percent of the 550 male and female respondents respondents reported that men mend their own clothing. clothing. Only two percent of the survey participants described described men who mend stereotypically as henpecked! henpecked! Considering this trend, and the fact that most newlyweds newlyweds have tight budgets and busy schedules, his and hers "easy-mending" kits are practical gift ideas for both brides and grooms. Here are some suggestions for items to include include in the kit: • Assorted-colored spools of thread. • Buttons in various sizes, shapes and colors. • Button Magic, a portable, portable, easy-to-use button sewer for replacing buttons with thread in less than two minutes. • A tape measure. • Pins, pin cushion or magnetic pin holder to keep pins in their place. • Stitch-Me-Quick for tacking seams and hems quickly on pants, skirts, jackets and coats. • Shears for snipping thread. • Lint Pic-Up roller to remove lint and threads from clothing after mending. mending. Wedding Flowers For Your Special Day I I 1 '& IP^ ; Pick up your Free Mini-catalogue and check our reasonable prices Carnation Flower Shop 33 Division St., Jfirm Bowmanville 623-7141 (5@S/ 623-5577