MADE-UP MATERIALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 4

MADE-UP MATERIALS

FLOUNCING (By DAPHNE DAVIDSON). ’Made-up” materials are becoming very popular, and, no wonder, for in the new designs the matter of making a really delightful frock is greatly simplified. The new materials are not less than 40in. wide, and consist of bodice and skirt, so that one merely needs to buy a length of material which measures the width round the frock, and then a machined side seam, and the shaping of the neck completes a smart summer frock. Such materials are having a large sale in one draper’s, an attractive specimen being figured silk, whose black ground is covered with graduated spots. The bodice portion shows grey spots divided by thin red lines; the design becomes larger as it reaches the waist, and, in the full skirt, the spots change from grey to red, and the lines from red to grey. An inch of plain black forms the selvedge. The frock should, however, be hemmed, because, though there is an appropriate plain portion as an edging, the .Hock will not set well without a hem. Wide, white tulle is prettily appliqued with pale green spots, and here is a hem of double tulle in plain green. This material is in one piece, the bodice and skirt are not defined, hut the addition of a fancy bolt, or a little shaping at the hips soon creates a neat, summer frock. Another tulle design in pale rose has tiers of petals close together at the border, the petals shading from pale to dark rose. A thicker, cotton material is worked with several inches broderie Anglais at one side, and this pattern makes a pretty uneven hem-line, which would, of course, be heavy enough without the bother of stitching a hem. Quite an inexpensive green voile is very wide, and for the border a series of printed rings overlap one another. They are in varying shades of green, some being embroidered in green silk. The rings form a scalloped hem. More elaborate still is a material whose bodice is straight, and whose skirt consists of three, full frills. A frock of this material can be completed by a belt, bunched over to form a bloused bodice, or left plain. Black and beige spots on a dull, red ground look well in this material. Wide, black chiffon aids a complicated design, with green net is set into the border as.vandycks, and over this is gold net, which extends beyond the green vandycks, where it is embroidered with red, blue, and gold threads. Frilled net is not so novel a material, but the frills now seem fuller and deeper, and this gossamer fabric is easily made into fluffy dance frocks. Blue and cream nets, too, are frilled with attractive results.