Fashion and Things Feminine.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 14, 19 February 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

Fashion and Things Feminine.

By IDA MtLLER

A CHAT ABOUT OVERALLS. In the average home the housewife or a daughter dot's so much, of the light-a-part ot housework that a practical overall oi' household apron is essential to her outiit. A set of aprons is, indeed, regarded as a necessity by many a gentlewoman who is as particular about the care of her morning dress as of her afternoon one. and always wears a linen or sateen overall when doing work of a dusty nature. A cooking apron n?ed not necesarily be of the long-sleeved kind, but if be made sleeveless,, a pair of slip-on sleeves should bo provided, run with elastics top and bottom. Many young housewives prefer sleeveless aprons be-

HO. 1804. cause they like to roll up their dress sleeves and work with arms bare to the elbows whil© cooking. Light blue is a favourite colour lor aprons and overalls, and indigo linen is also very useful for a similar purpose, and finds good reliei in band-trimmings of red or light blue galon. The household apron illustrated is useful as a cooking overall or dusting apron, and i 9 a very good, simple pattern and becoming, withal, looking quite dainty when developed in s axe-blue linen, with either dark blue and white or black and white striped cotton or fancy galon for trimming. Bodice; and. sleeves are cut in one, and the skirt is joined to the bodice at the waist beneath the band of striped material. A big hippocket is added, and the apron fastens at the back with buttons and buttonholes. Self-coloured braid might replace the striped trimming, if preferred. A BELTED COAT FOR A GIRL. The coat that prevails as a distinct type just now, is fte belted one, with Jong-waisted effect. It is made in all sorts of materials, including tweed, homespun, and cloth, and in tweed may be specially recommended as a wrapcoat to be included in the seaside outfit of the giil of from twelve years of age upwards. There is nothing remarkable about the coat, except the wide, lowplaced belt. without which it would lose its distinction and tfiat. gives to it an individuality all its own.

A coat with wide belt- and long-waist-ed is illustrated, in the interest o school-girls ncoding a coat ot the kind. For lirctzv mornings or cli lly evenings hv the sea this coat is an excellent wrap aiul looks well in snuft'-brown frieze and 111 heather-coloured tweeil. . Tin coat fastens in front, where it is fihi• lied. m elsewhere, with a deep hem. two buttons securing the tront*. me helt is also buttoned, andl the right tip i fi out to a mrtre.poi.it rle belt must M l'ned and it is stitched along both borders. The coat itself requires no lining The neck is made collarless, the soft collar worn by the girl in th« picture proceeding from the bio us? under tho coat. HTXTS OX FLAKING IT THE COAT. The quantity of 45-inch tweed or frieze required for the wrap! u two yards This should be folded length-

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wise and the pattern pieces, live in all. la:d upon it as shown in the diagram. The pattern consists of o ne front of coat, half the back, one upper sLjeve one under-sleeve, and half the belt . The straight edge of back of coat is laid to the fold, and tha belt is also laid to tiie told to avoid a seam.

Little need be said about putting the coat together. Back and fronts should ho tack.'d together, tho two sleeves made up, and when the coat is tried on the sleeves should bo fitted into tho arniholes. Tho wrists are finished with 6titching. 'llio dotted lines on front and back of coat in diagram indicate tfoa position of the belt. Should this slip about oil tlie figure, straps should be added to the coat at each side and the belt run through these. In finishing off th-3 coat, the armholes nnist. be bound with saracenet and the raw turned in edges everywhere must be faced with saracenot. stitched along both borders.