Show REMODELING PRINCESS GOWN Discarded Frocks Can Be Bo Worked Over Into Prevailing Styles Very Easily The princess g gown Is now so so largely I a thing of the past that women who have frocks of this character on their hands or rather In their wardrobes are casting about for ways of remodeling cling eling them tEem In accord accordance an co with the prevailing prevailing pre pre- styles Hero Here are two good suggestions e each ch worked out In the case of an actual gown gown I In the first ca case case e there was a front skirt panel which extended a little above the fitted waist lIn line The great object of course was to gJ give e the appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap of a belt where no belt was and this was achieved by the Introduction Introduction tion of a large ribbon rosette rosett at each side with a loose fold of ribbon to toma ma match ch connecting them at the back The gown then seemed equipped with witha a girdle which was only broken at the front panel In the other frock the situation was complicated by the fact that the princess princess prin- prin cess effect extended upward In bib fashion a and d yet was too high to agree with even the present empire styles I The problem was was Solved by slashing the gown at the belt In a wide oblong leaving only the front as If It were a skirt panel and then Introducing a shirred oblong of the same material as the deep yoke on the blouse Thus the gown seemed transformed to a tunic frock built over the yoke mate mate- I rial nial A strap of the skirt fabric which had been cut out was applied ov over r I Ithe the shirred material to complete this effect I |