HOME WORK FOR WOMEN

Shannon News, 9 March 1926, Page 1

HOME WORK FOR WOMEN

VELVET: SIMPLE, CHARMING, SMART, Chiffon velvet, most delightful of fabrics, is enjoying a rather “exclusive’' popularity at the moment. Ladies who dress , for sheer effect haye turned their attention to the broche kind, but those real leaders Of fashion, whose real aim it is to keep exclusive the Cult for a new fabric, are giving chiffon velvet their quiet but determined attention. If you want to be of the elect, but cannot afford the 10s Gd per yard, which is the cheapest one can buy real chiffon velvet, see that your velveteen has a chiffon finisli t and you will be quite satisfied with the resultant garment. Do be careful about your widths. A 27 inch is quite the best for this dress, and *of this you want 3£ yards; a width will cut back and front, or one sleeve and a panel; you will find, it perfectly easy to plan out. That very narrow velvet, 2 2-inch wide, I think it is, is only suitable for a panelled , frock, gathered at the hipsi or with godets introduced here. No, don’t get this, it is a kiddy’s width, that is all. Trimmings.

Nothing could be more cheery than a black velvet dress, trimmed with red silk braid, with the sleeves turned up with red crepe-de-chinc, similar to that which lines the panels. A cardinal red dress can be trimmed with black most effectively. The fashionable bottle green, trimmed with champagn e silk, is one of the most pleasing of combinations. Personally, I adore black and gold —deep yellow that is just sunlight. Even the bindings can be of crepe-de-chine; they will look even nicer, but they are a little more difficult to manage; certainly, if you cannot match both braid and silk' you will be \yiser to let the silk do all the work. As you will see by the sketch, the panels are ornaments only, so are attached to the front of the frock merely by the binding. ' If you wish, you can, of course,, bring these panels right to the side, but |hey are not nearly so smart so placed. About 8 inches apart at the centre front is the correct measure. Tasks That Are' Difficult.

Unless you, take care, -you are likely to giv e yourself a great deal.more trouble than you need. For instance, the lining of the panels should present no difficulties if you lay the velvet on to the silk, face downwards, and then run along three edges (leaving one narrow side open). Snip off the points at the corners and turn inside out. If you have just allowed it to run under the machine without pulling or easing, the panels will lie quite flat when turned out, but 'if you have allowed either silk or velvet to pull tightly, you will have to unpick and do again. If you are using silk for bindings, run up into one long strip, press open the joins and then press in two; cut binding about 2 inches wide. Seams on velvet or velveteens can- . not be neatened in the usual way by French or neatened seams. Your best plan is to run the edges together with a good half-inch turning, and then snip little triangular pieces out of th eraw edges to prevent them fraying out. Join shoulders, make up panels, try the frock on and then settle where these look nicest; pin, then attach to the frock and neaten your join with a scrap of braid or finding. Join up underarms, make up, sleeves, neaten wrists and place in armhole seam by seam. Bind neck, turn up the hem by hand, press open seams on an iron stood on end, and your frock is ready to wear