A MOTHER’S SALE TIME HINT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 25

A MOTHER’S SALE TIME HINT

ESKIMO WOOLLIES” FROM A FIVE SHILLING SCARF

I wonder if any other mother has had my "brain wave” for utilising a bargain? It has proved a great success, and most economical. Sales always provide bargains in woolly scarves, and last year I bought a very wide one in tobacco brown brushed wool, originally intended for a motoring and travelling wrap. It was reduced to ss, only three of the kind being left in the shop, and is now converted into a delightful “leggings suit” for my little boy, aged three. Every mother knows how expensive these woolly suits are, if bought ready-made. Imagine the leggings of a child’s Eskimo woollies, not stopping at the waist, but carried up to the base of the throat, and cut straight across there. I cut the back a little longer than the front, so that the two top corners at the back come over the shoulders and fasten to large buttons 011 the trout corners. The suit has no collar or sleeves. It is a sort of overall worn over a fawn sweater, with orange and blue collar and cuffs. The collar of the sweater falls over the top of the suit, which is edged straight, back and front, with narrow brown velvet, similar velvet edging the flaps where the legs come down on the insteps, with elastic under the shoes.

It is essential to get a woven brushed wool scarf, not a knitted one, as of course it must not "ladder” on being cut. If you choose a scarf edged with narrow cord, as mine happened to be, you cau have a smart stripe down each side, like the trousers of military mess kit, and the cord simplifies the seam to 10 minutes’ work. The side seams are joined as high as possible, while still allowing the garment to pull on easily. The shoulder buttons are the only fastening.

This little boiler suit, as an engineer friend calls it, is really very fascinating, and most comfortable for the child. The jerseys underneath can be varied in thickness to suit the weather, and the change in their colours prevents any drab appearance. The leggings are a complete protection in rain, and mud spots brush off easily. I made a little “beret” cap from the cuttings of the scarf, with a tassel from the fringe, and this completes the outfit all for ss. A white woolly beret, with a plain white jersey, ligb tens the whole effect on sunny days.