YOUR BEADED FROCK

Shannon News, 28 October 1927, Page 4

YOUR BEADED FROCK

HOW TO RENOVATE. A very large number of evening frocks and other garments are heavily trimmed with beaded designs nowadays. There are two kinds of beaded frocks —the very expensive ones, in which the design ‘ stays put,’ and the cheaper ones, on which tragic blank spaces appear after a little w r ear, because the gossamer like cotton has broken and shed many dozens of beads. You can hoAvevcr prevent this tragedy .in the easiest possible manner. Buy a few r pennyworth of gum arabic and melt it in a little ■warm -water. You don’t want a make a thickly sticky mixture, but one which makes your linger and thumb sticky -when rubbed together, after you have dipped them in the solution.

Take the frock, turn it inside out, and place it on the table with a, newspaper under the beads and the machine work uppermost. Then with a paintbrush, run along the line of stitching, which keeps the beads in plaee, with the gum solution, covering the whole of the design. Your beads are now safe for all time.