Re-Styling Last Season’s Clothes
Have you a suit with an exaggerated long jacket, big hip pockets, knee-length skirt? The jacket is still good for 1948 if you chop it short above the pocket level, square the neck and fill with a softly draped scarf. Team your jacket with one of the new skirts, generously full on the hips. A plain evening gown with strapped, fitted bodice and simple floorlength skirt takes’on fresh charm if you take off the straps, bone the bodice and soften the shoulders with
a filmy fichu drape. Shorten the skirt to ballet length and tuck a bunch of roses in at the waist. To bring a shirt-waist classic into line with fashion, take out shoulder padding and close collar high at the throat with a soft Gibson girl howShorten sleeves, draw fullness into cuff and finish with bow ties. Added bands of contrasting fabric sweep the skirt down to the new smart length.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 3
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157Re-Styling Last Season’s Clothes Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 4, 6 October 1948, Page 3
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