THE JUMPER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 9

THE JUMPER

Jumpers and jumper suits are going to be just as much worn as ever, all through the coming autumn—with one difference. To be really smart, they must have some little original note about them, and below are some ideaS for smartening up that plain last-year’s jumper-suit which so many of us still have. Smartest of all is the architectural note! Perfectly ordinary jumpers can be transformed with the help of about half a yard of cbntrasting material stitched on in a very amusing way. A V-shaped bit of it is put on either at the back or the front, giving it the appearance of being slashed to the waist. If your jumper is the very plain sort—without a collar—it is smartest to stitch on the contrasting material at the back! A big French house is making a speciality of this idea. It shows jumpers slashed with flesh colour so that they give the appearance, at a distance, of evening dress in the morning. But this idea is not very practical for us who have to work, and a darker colour is just as smart. Another method of renovating old jumpers is to stitch an oblong or V-shaped piece on to the side seams. The main point about all these trimmings is that they must look architectural. That is to say, they must have perfectly straight lines and look as if they had been measured with a ruler. Another very new and attractive note is to stitch on two epaulettes and make your jumper essentially military! If you can, make the epaulettes of the same material as the jumper, but if that is not possible, a contrasting one is just as smart, only it doesn’t show up the buttons, which are the main feature—as well. They should be quite big, about an inch in diameter, and very bright and brassy. Needless to say, epaulettes can only be added on a eollarless jumper. The neck of it can be finished with an inch-wide upstanding strip of material, if you like, but that is all.