THE POSSIBILITIES OF A SINGLE PATTERN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 1, Issue 4, 15 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE POSSIBILITIES OF A SINGLE PATTERN.

When a girl who has had but little experience in dressmaking gets a blouse pattern that fits her well, it will sometimes be found possible to use that pattern in a variety of ways, so as to give her a number of different-looking blouses, and yet all cut from the one pattern with which she is familiar. For morning blouses or house dresses, nothing is prettier than blue and white or heliotrope and. white cotton. The one-piece dress is simplicity itself to make up, slip on and launder, besides being pretty and stylish. Short sleeves are usually the most convenient for working ; but, if you are a cold body, and the house is not over-warm in. the mornings, make the sleeves to reach the wrist, and place a few buttons and buttonholes to the depth of a deep cuff, bo that the sleeves may be unbuttoned and, rolled, up whenever you like.

The combination of two or more materials is the high favourite of Dame Fashion just now. Satin plays a lively part in most of them, for it is made up with rough silks, figured foulards, etc. In some dresses the thin veiling or contrasting fabric ends about knee depth, and the deep hern effect of plain material is below, but in other costumes the outer or thin fabric falls the entire length of dress.