SALE BARGAINS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 8

SALE BARGAINS

ATTRACTIVE USE FOR THEM. HOODS MADE FROM SCARVES. Cosy woollen scarves (the straight strip shape) are cleared at very tempting prices at the sales. Buy several and you’ll find a practical and thrifty use for every one of them. Do you want a warm hood, either for yourself or a child? A gaily striped scarf makes a very picturesque one. Fold in half and seam the two thicknesses together down one edge for about 10 inches from the fold (less for a child). From this point you can finish the hood in various ways. One is to arrange a press stud or button fastening under the chin, reinforcing the single material on the wrong side where each stud or button is sewn, with a small square of approximately matching stuff from your piece-bag. The scarf ends will fall softly in front, covering warmly any V opening of your coat.

Another plan is to cut off the hood at the bottom of the seam, stitch a hem all round the lower edge, run in an elastic to draw up the fullness and provide two ribbon ties for fastening. The cut-off ends are joined to form a smart fold-back flap, with stripes going the reverse way from those on the hood. Stitch this along the front edge from ear to ear. If your scarf is plain, decorate the-added flap with a few rows of gay darning, worked with oddments of wool left over from knitting or embroidery.

To make a third becoming hood, round off the point at the top back and continue the seam all the way down. Then catch the material in gathers at the nape of the neck, holding the folds together with a big hat brooch or scarf pin from the sixpenny stores. This gives a jaunty cap effect from the frontt, with “waterfall” drapery behind. Or wear this hood turned sideways, so that the brooch and draper come over the left ear, for a dashing pirate effect. For this headgear retain the point, turning it down in a triangle towards the forehead.