SUMMER DRESS HINTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3893, 10 January 1929, Page 4

SUMMER DRESS HINTS

A striped, checked, or flower patterned dress may have a hip yoke made of the same material, but looking quite different. Stripes go straight down from the yoke, on which they are horizontal (says a fashion writer). On the bodice they, are straight, too, except on the shoulder yoke and pockets, where they run in the opposite way. Unevenly spotted dresses are worn in many combinations of colours under long plain coats, blue and. white, black and white, black, beige and red, several shades of blue on a blue or beige background. Coarse-, drawn thread work breaks up spotted and flowered designs; faggoting and ribbing in straight lines are used for the same reason. It is by the use of the needle to describe diagonal, perpendicular, and horizontal lines on plain and iigured summer material that substance iis given "to the thinnest of them. Wherever a dress blouses too much, a few tucks are introduced or a group of flat gathers. A dress retains its simple outlines by these means, aud at the isame time acquires a richness which without them it would lack.