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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Add Color and Spice to Rooms With Unusual Slip Cover Designs By Ertta Haley Feminine Suit WHETHER YOU'RE an expert-enced expert-enced seamstress who can touch any material and turn it into lovely creation or a beginner with ideas and the desire to learn, you can make slipcovers of unusual beauty and design. A perfectly ordinary ordi-nary room can change its appearance appear-ance as a woman with a new hat, and you can have a different room twice a year or with every season. Slipcovers made or purchased from professionals are expensive and thus limit many homes to one set. Made by the woman of the home, there are several sets available availa-ble because the expense is so small. Dull rooms can come to life again with brand new, well-designed covers cov-ers for chairs and sofas, and the cost Is limited to material alone. Fortunately there's a wide selection selec-tion of this available, and many of the materials can be picked up at sales for such reasonable prices that It's plain laziness not to take advantage of the spice they can add to your home. Even one chair, if it's Important to the room can lift the furnishings to a new plane. Then, as time goes by you can gradually remake the room by adding other slipcovers in keeping with the first one, as long as the tempo has been well set. Fitting is the important thing in making the cover, but this is easily ulved. The sewing really doesn't mount to a great deal, and as most V .'XI HI! OTOT--fM"fW2I i u 1 1 i I 'i "j This little feminine suit of navy crepe, moderately priced, is designed In New York for all purpose wear. The collarlesa Jacket Is scalloped up In front and buttoned Into green-piped buttonholes. It's a perfect companion com-panion for warm weather when combined with a tailored but lacy hat and a white boutonnlere pinned Just below the shoulder. Cover old chair for bedroom use . . , of It is straight, and on good materials, mater-ials, this offers no problem. Slip covers can be as Individual as the seamstress herself, and she need not limit herself to patterns. With a change, and simple at that, corner and skirt finishes can change a traditional cover into something apt to bring forth many a compliment compli-ment through the years. Vary Skirt Finish Ta Change Style The style of almost any easy or lounging chair in the living or bedroom bed-room can be varied with its slipcover. Lines may be hidden, lines can be changed with the covering cover-ing alone, and most of the change can come in the skirt or in the corner treatment If you want to buy a pattern for a chair, then buy a simple style with classic box pleats in the skirt j overstuffed sofa which for many I years has had a floral covering can become a brand new and interesting ' piece if you will use a lovely shade of plain material. If the draperies , are floral, you might cut out flowers from them and applique them to the plain material, on back or arms, depending upon the size of the spray or blossom. A layer of cotton between the plain material and the applique will help the applique stand out for good effect. Panelled sofa covers are excellent excel-lent if your home is modern. The panelled effect can be achieved by quilting over thick cotton lining. This treatment may be used on the back as well as the sides, with seat covers and front left plain. Tailored sofas can be given a sectional sec-tional look, too, if you will do them in two kinds of material Use a plain material on sides and center panel, with floral, striped or geometric material on the two end seats. Use Part-Time Covers To Keep Them Fresh Upholstered furniture can be kept bright and attractive looking, as well as decorative if you want to make part-time slipcovers, or Just covers for those parts like head and arms which soli most easily. Think of how easy they are to ; make, and how quickly they can be whisked in and out of the laundry back to chairs and sofasl You can also save wear and tear on furni- hire and their own covers if you have these miniature slipcovers. A plaid chair and sofa for exam- , pie can have a cover to slip over j the back. Make this in plain fabric and use large scallops for finishing it- 1 Arm and head rest covers tor your favorite easy chair will keep it neat and clean. Make these with straight edges, tailored, if It's a plain large chair. These should fit over back, several inches down from' the top, and come two or three inches over the arms on each side as well as at the front If your chair seats take lots of wear, plan to make covers that tie under the seat with tapes to keep them properly anchored. Partial covers for ottomans can be made to slip over the top and come down on the sides for two or three inches. Make them snug enough so they don't slip off. Dresa Up Plain Chairs With Colorful Covers Chairs for bed and dressing rooms can be ruffled and very decorative, but the fabrics for them are usually Inexpensive. Old curtains and draperies as well as sheets, tablecloths table-cloths and dressing table skirts can frequently yield enough material for the chairs if there is enough durable dura-ble material remaining in them to be worth the sewing. Floor length skirts for bedroom chairs can cover the legs or rungs of an old dining room or straight-backed straight-backed living room. The back and seat of the chair can be covered with a plain boxed pattern and the skirt with knife pleated material or flounce. Plaid for back and seat and a plain fabric for skirt boxed trimly, is always good for a man's or boy's room. The plain material for the skirt should pick up one of the colors in the plaid. For a feminine chair, use a ruffled ruf-fled dotted Swiss skirt and a perky overlay of knife pleated trim which may be purchased ready-made. Demure De-mure satin bows can be used at the back sides of the chair. sdd spite to your soft cover. since this is the classic skirt finish. This may be used with almost any atyle of furniture. If you want the easiest style to make, then buy a skirt with a flounce. Use this In Informally In-formally furnished rooms. ' Another good style to buy, for patterns, pat-terns, Is the straight skirt with simple sim-ple pleats at the corners. Then, if you wish, you can make an extra skirt pattern out of tissue paper when you want variety. For formal rooms, for example, you may finish the skirt with fringe, and this is usually set right on top of a plain skirt. Fringed skirts are at home in Victorian, modern or traditional rooms. Shaped skirts are good in all types of rooms, as long as the shaping harmonizes with the room. Take the scalloped skirt for instance. The simple round or oval scallops are best in Informal settings. Inverted pleating at the corners of a chair make the piece at home in modern or tailored settings. In traditional rooms you might like to bide ponderous or portruding legs with draped corners on the slipcover. slip-cover. Should the room be less formal, and you still want to hide or disguise dis-guise faulty chair legs, use flounced corners. This treatment is especially especi-ally good for Informal rooms,' and for those ugly cabriole legs. Another corner treatment for covers that Is good for chairs upholstered up-holstered all the way to the floor, are the corded or lace trimmings. Vary Sofa Style Ta Add Interest It's surprising what effect you can give an old sofa or studio couch Just with smart slipcovering. An |