Fashion and Things Feminine.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 187, 30 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

Fashion and Things Feminine.

cm&r By IDA MELL£R - -

Copyright.

A SIMPLE HOUSE-DRESS. Now that fashions have settled down and the short, full skirt is no longer new, or at least a novelty, tin l modes that at first were found somewhat trying are worn with an easy grace and proving thomse'ves quitv acceptable. A typical style for out of doors is the plain, full skirt, cut slightly above ankle level to show a smart gaiter, worn with a short, loose-fitting coat with high collar at the,'back. If the -kirt av.d coat are scalloped ait the edge, so much the better. As for house-dresses, these are ol the one-piece kind, but sleveless effects are int:.>•'ik-.hl that render them very dainty-looking. One of the prettiest ideas for a simple boii'-' dns~ i.-t illustrated, and the design would work out in any plain or figured soft material. The dress

Were the dress of cloth or crepon the hems would be effective in silk.

SLEEPING SLITS KOK CHILDREN'. At, this season, the wardrobes of children, especially as they concern underclothing, usually need over-haul-ing and replenishing with warm petticoats, knickers, night-dresses, and so on, and probably, therefore, many mothers will be interested in the pictures of sleeping suits for children shown here. The one suit. Figure "A." is provided with feet: the other, "IT" is shorn off at foot level and finishes trousers-fashion. Either suit may be. worn by a little girl or a little boy, and may be arranged to fasten in front or at the back as preferred. To .make the suits, well-shrunk flannel or hygienic woollen would be excellent : or Pyrenees wool might be employed. They are easy patterns to copy, and it need scarcely be pointed out that sleeping suits of this kind are much more protective than nightshirts and night-dresses, and prevent many a chill that might be caught from the childish habit of throwing off the bedclothes when sleep. To make a sleeping suit, as illustrated, for a child of s,ix years or so. about I yards ottGin. stuff' will be required. This allows for a oOin. length. The diagrams indicate how to dispose of the various pattern pieces on the material, which should be folded in half after being opened out to its full width.

half the collar, and one sole of the foot. The upper part of foot is cut in one with the leg of the combination. There are only three pattern pieces of Figure "B 'design, the wile being omitted. With this sleeping suit, ordinary woollen bed-socks could be worn. Mich pattern pictv must be cut out in duplicate. The complete collar of Figure "A" should be cut out in one piece, and it. will be observed that a space is marked out in each diagram lor tli.- lacking half-patterns. The collar mi Figure "B' is a split one, and may be cut. therelore, in two separate plf'C'CS.

In cutting out the patterns margins must be allowed fur scam turnings. The notches indicated on diagrams, show where the various parts are joined together. When seaming a suit, after the manner of ordinary combinations, a placket must be left, front or back, an decided on. and U inch should be turned in lor hems. The sole of the foot on .suit "A" must be neatly stitched in place, and when the fihouldcr-seamfi are stitched, t!:e s'oevos must he put iu. Button and button-hole fastenings must be provided, the neck must be turned in and faced with material, and the collars, when hemmed, stitched in place. A pretty finish is given to the sleeping suit for a little girl by the addition of woollen frilling to the collar and .sleeves. The shoulder seams of the suits should be French-hemmed and made in the Usual way, opened out, pressed and herring-boned, and the armholes should be neatlv faced or bound.

Special care must be taken in the finish-off of the plackets, which must b.' lirmlv done.

It iri so important that children should be sale-guarded in every possible way from cold-catching, that it is to be hoped mothers will take the precaution to make up for their .tittle ones an adequate supply of winter sloepingsuits in good Ume. Striped llannol.-, esp.vially pink and white and blue and white stripes, are very pretty for children's night-wear. and might be emp'oyed for t\v garments illustrated.

THE VIEW WE TANK

There are always two ways of looking at a situation. We can take the bright or the gloomy view, and we can make the best or the worst of whatever happens to us.

Surely it is better for everybody concerned that we make the best of things and put up with an inconvenience or annoyance with the befit grace possible. It will really make things no more bearab'e to grumble, but, on the contrary, will only serve to aggravate the unpleasantness of the (situation. After all, it is not so much the actual thing that happen* that matters, as the w:<\- in which we take it. The sam.' sort of tiling may happen to two people, but they will accept it quite differently—the one making light _ of it, the (,'fber making the worst of it. It is better to put oneself in harmony with surroundings than to be at variance with those about one.

A WAISTCOAT FROM KID GLOVES

Th/ 1 economical housewife turns to account many an article that would he discarded as useless by a less thrifty woman.

One of the most ingenious economica I ideas is the transformation of several pairs of old brown kid gloves into a wind-proof waistcoat for a man.

The woman who made the waistcoat took a great deal of trouble in making it as neat as possible. First, she cut out a waistcoat in brown calico, and used the fronts as a foundation for the kid.

Having co'lectod several pairs of old gloves, all as near the same shade of lirown as passible, she cut off the fingers, ripped each glove up the centre, fion't. opened out the kid to its full 4retch. cut it into a neat shape and lacked it to the calico waistcoat front, she proceeded in the *ame way with (lie othot gloves, and when all were tnclc.'d to tiie calico, she caught the edge* of the kid together, to keep the desired shape of the garment, then removed the tacking threads, and having thus separated the kid from the calico foundation, she stitched the skins << curely together by whipping them 011 the wrong >ide. She made the second front of the waistcoat in the same way. and then -■Mit both fronts to be dyed brown. "When she received them again she •stitched thein to the calico- fronts, teamed the calico back of the waistcoat to the fronts and bound the garment with Mlk braid. To save the trouble of buttonhole making, she ,-fastened 'the waistcoat with stud grips. Xalural'v the larger the gloves. the quicker the waistcoat is made; wherefore men s gloves are better than women's for the purpose, but both sizes ('an be used, of course, m the - of a waistcoat. APPLE EMITTERS. SI iff thill, two medium-sized sound apples. Make a batter of one and 111 a!f cupfuls of flour, two tea*|>oonfu!s of baking powder, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one egg, and tinee(iuarteis of a ctipiul of milk. Mix and sift ill.' i!ry ingredient-, add tin 1 milk '•i-adiiadv. Mid the egg, well beaten, and stir in the sliced apples Drop them by -piiuiluls. ill very hot, lat. ( ]i;iiii (ii brown paper, and sprinkle with powdered Migar. A TllorCHT FOR THE WEEK. Those n arc 'overs of tlieinselye-. without a rival are many times unlortunate. And whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end sacrifice* to the in.-ons:anc\ of fortune, whose wings tliey thought bv their ndt-wisduii to have pinioned.— Lord Bacon.