WAYS WITH WAISTCOATS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 4

WAYS WITH WAISTCOATS

AVhen making the up-to-date little waistcoat that is essential to the successful tailored suit, be sure to secure a good pattern that is becoming to your figure. If you are slim and svelte you may essay a cross-over effect; but if you are inclined to plumpness, choose a pattern that comes down to a point in front. If you are clever with the crochethook, make strips of crochet in brightly coloured wools and silks. Join the sides, fronts and shoulders with these strips, and finish off the raw edges with similar trimming worked directly on to the material. When cutting , the material for the waistcoat, remember to make allowance for the width of the crochet strips you propose to use. Posies of flowers worked in gay wools do not take long to make if they are done in simple buttonhole stitch, with small French knots in the centres. Work one on each pocket flap, and one slightly larger to represent a buttonhole on the left side. Keep your old white kid gloves and cut them up into leaves and petals for appliques on a waistcoat of jade green or lacquer red. Work them on with black stitches, set fairly far apart. Be sure not to iron the appliques, for kid hardens under heat. A woman who lately gave up selling dresses and opened a shop for waistcoats alone has made more profit out of these little garments than she made out of the frocks. She has more orders now than her workrooms can cope with. It is originality that counts! L.G.S.