Shorter Skirts—For Chairs !

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 14

Shorter Skirts —For Chairs !

The Art of the Loose Cover

“JJIRE’S multi-coloured spell” is always more fascinating F than any radiator—but the good old fire on the hearth means extra work. There is always more “cleaning up” to be done where a fire has been burning, and curtains couches and upholstered chairs are apt to become dirty. It is then that loose covers can play a useful part.

T OOSE covers can be used to ad■U vantage through the winter months, when dust and daily fires dirty the rooms, to protect beautiful shadow-tissues, upholstered chairs, and couches.

pleats at the side being captured between bands of the material pipe with blue, making a new covering of infinite charm.

On the mahogany stool a tiny pleated frill finishes the cover. For the next chair, the loose cover is of printed linen, with pale apple green ground patterned with sprigs of blue, yellow and black, made with a vandyked flounce, with boxpleats between each Vandyke, while a fringe finishes the gold artificial silk cover of the chair on the right. A richly-embroidered shawl, draped over a black screen, gives an unusual note to a room.

But remember! There is an art in loose covers—unless made well, to fit well and add to the appearance of the room, they spoil the house. Better to leave off all covers than to make the house look like an empty theatre at cleaning time.

Shorter skirts —or rather, frills—are now the vogue; they are not only smarter, but keen clean longer. Plain beige linen has been used for the chair at the left, in the above drawing, with a decorative plant in a pot embroidered in green, blue, red, purple, and black thread.

The bolster cushion is made entirely of ribbon, in harmonising colours, and the oblong cushion next to the table is of black velvet with rose silk and gold embroidery, and a long tassell dangling from one end.

The divan is covered with artificial silk in gold shot with blue, the