A NOVELTY BUTTONHOLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 258, 21 January 1928, Page 18

A NOVELTY BUTTONHOLE

YOU CAN MAKE IT YOURSELF Buttonholes are an expensive luxury these days when fashion changes so quickly, but you will be pleased to hear that the little patent leather buttonhole, which hails from America and which will brave any kind of weather without showing signs of fatigue, is likely to remain with us throughout the season. These buttonholes cost anything up to six shillings to buy. but I made my own for nothing! From an emerald green belt—which, by the way, % l had worn for many months —I cut a number of “leaves”— some small, others a little larger for the outer petals. Then I got a small wooden button mould, covered it with a sci'ap of green leather and worked little black silk stamens here and there. The rest was easy. I just arranged the leaves as closely as possible all round, beginning with the small ones, and in less ten minutes the buttonhole was ready to wear. If you like you can give your leaves a touch of gold paint, but this is just a matter of taste. These patent leather flowers are being used extensively for hip ornaments, too, and also for handbags; so if you have any odd scraps left over from your buttonhole you know what to do with them! When Miss America finds herself minus a suitable buttonhole to wear with a particular suit or frock, she picks up a small silk handkerchief, gives it a twist here and there and just pins it in the lapek 1 watched a little American friend make one of these last-minute buttonholes the other day. This is how she did it: Holding the centre of the handkerchief, she gave' it> a twist and a stitch to hold it in position. Then she arranged the four points to form petals giving them a stitch here and there also, and her buttonhole was ready for wear. For decorating powder boxes Miss America often uses the handkerchief flower in preference to any other, simply because she can take it off and wash it, and so save money. ,