WOMAN’S WORLD

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 440, 28 May 1923, Page 1

WOMAN’S WORLD

A UOI'SEHOLD I*'HOCK. Tlio liouw'lio! I apron lias become as mucli a part of tlio average, woman's wardrobe a.s flic morning-dress itself; hot an improvomciit on tlio apron is t,ho household l’roclt as depicted in tlio sketch. Tin's should lie inado of colt onion!.ml. and any washing blouse that lias soon its best days can be worn with it. The quantity of DO-inch material required for a frock is ,‘H yards.

There are six pieces of tlio paper pattern, including ball' ihe back and half the front of skirt, also of bodices, one shoulder-strap.- and one pocket. Those pieces should he laid on tlio material, folded in hall selvedge, with the straight edges of skirt paLtorus and front of bodice laid to the fold. Out out all patterns through the two thicknesses of material, allowing half-inch or nr more turnings generally, hut oneinch for pocket hems (top ol pockets), and as much as the sluif permits for skirt lie in. Seam the front and hack at tlio sides, make a placket at tho centrebark, fnor. i! and sew on press-studs, gatlier the waist and belli the front of skirl. Either make a double hong il ♦ here is sufficient margin of stuff, or a single hem and face it Join front and hack of bodice at tlio sides, turn in and face with bias. bunds of material tho top edge, turn in the raw edges of hack opening and I'misK thorn off with facings and press-studs. Lather tlio waist of skirt to thu size of bodice waist, pi 11 them together right sides facing and tho bodice held towards you, then, after regulating ihe skirl fullness and keeping the, front .pvlaixi.Tauv the. t\vo*...L*K«lh«i>...-sowing with thorn a cross-way strip of material, an inch wide, laying the top edges of this strip against the bodice odgo. When the waist is thus sewn, turn tho l odie.s to right side and hide the raw edges by turning in and stitching down the loose edge of binding Lino and make tlio shoulder-straps, new thorn to the hack of bodice and arrange press-stud' fastenings for tho fronts; turn ill rido and lower-edges of tlio pocket, hem the top of each, and new pockets to the hips of the skirt. SIMPLE FROCK FOR A GIRL. A pretty little front for x girl of from eight to ten years is illustrated. The quantity of 44in. material noctled the frock is two yards. Open out the stuff to its full width for tlio skirt (which is simply a straight, wide pieco of material) lay the skirt pattern on it, out one full width, and afterwards a piooo to ho joined on, na tlio width of material will not take the whole of skirt. Fold over one solvedgo of tlio remaining material far enough to take tho one-piece bodice pattern, with centrc-lmck and eontre-front to tho fold, and from the picco of material that remains over, cut out tho short sleeves and tlio piece to ho added on to the skirt. Tho diagram shows the method to he followed in cutting out. Split o|M!ii Ihe front of bodice at this neck, along ihe I old. for about throe inches, turn in the edges and face them with bias hands ol material. Ktil.'li tho short sleeves to the magyar tops, viion stitch under-arm and sloevo seams •Hid turn in and face tins raw edges cf sleeves. Finish n'v-k and sleeves with two rows ol running stitch in floss side or wool, and lini.di the bottom of bodice with a piping. loin the skirt into a circular piece, hem the bottom, and pi ess the seams; gather the top ol skirt and stitch it to •in. inch wide hand of- tape or lining, of sufficient length to pass easily over the hips of the child for whom tho frock is intended. Then sew the waist of the bodico also to the tape, seeing that the waist of bodice overlaps that of ekirt,

and being careful also in the pinning of skirt mid Imdieo together to see that tho senina of skirt occur at the hack ot frock. Finish tlio horn of skirt with stitching to match the style ol nock and sleeves and fasten the neck with a brooch or link-buttons.

(Continued in Next Colupin.)

Another suggestion for tho I rock is to leave skirt and when separate mount the skirt to an imder-hm ico of lining, fastening at tho hack, and make n placket, in tho skirt; o- mount the I skirt simply to a petersham hand and leave a placket at one ol the seams. But of course cither of the other styles suggested are preferable, ns whore children are concerned it m always an advantage to attach skirts to bodices.