CAPTIVATING CAPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 8

CAPTIVATING CAPE

MAKE IT OF CHIFFON. A. handful of chiffon and marabout will make you feel luxurious on cool summer mornings. i First thing in the morning it is often cool and fresh even in spring, and you want just something to slip round your shoulders before you get dressed. A little bed jacket will give you the loveliest feeling of luxury. You can make it of filmy chiffon, or if you are a very chilly person use a dainty flowered delaine or pastel nun's veiling. Edge it with softest marabout to match. It is the simplest thing in the world to make, for it is merely a complete circle with a place cut in the centre for your head. Four sashes tied in a bow, back and front, hold the jacket snugly round your waist and make the folds fall into two “sleeves.” You need Ijyds. of material 36in. wide, 3yds. of marabout edging, and 2 yds. of ribbon liin. wide. First fold your material in half, selvedge to selvedge, then fold in half again, raw edges to raw edges. Copy your diagram on to your material with chalk or pins and cut out through the four thicknesses along the thick black lines. Face the neck with a crossway strip of material, making the facing wide enough to take the ljin. wide ribbon. Make a hole in the centre front of the neck hem, buttonhole its edges, and thread the ribbon through, pulling out the ends on the right side in front. Either hem all round the remaining raw edges or have them picot edged. Trim the edges of the cape with the marabout.

Slip the cape over' your head and pull up the ribbon round your throat, tying it in a bow beneath your chin. Tie the sashes in two bows, either one on each hip, or one in front and one at the back of your waist.