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Show WOAIN WOUP Adult's Clothing Can Yield Good Materials for Child's Wardrobe ; By Ertta Haley MOST MOTHERS have found that it'J expensive to outfit children chil-dren completely from ready-made clothing, but the cost can be cut if only some of the wardrobe has to be purchased. Even though you may not have other youngsters who pass their clothing on to younger members of the family, the child's own clothes often have remake possibilities. possi-bilities. Clothing from mother and daddy can frequently yield good material for a child's wardrobe. No child, no matter how small, will be enthusiastic about clothing which is unattractive, and who can blame him or her? Children have an innnte sense of styling and color col-or which may come from their being be-ing admired in something nice. At any rate, whatever you remake, do it carefully, with a flair for style, so your efforts are put to good purpose. Fabrics which you draw from old clothing should be clean. If the garment can be laundered, well and good; otherwise, have it cleaned professionally. Laundered old clothing should be pressed before you start remaking It or you cannot get the material straight enough to use for cutting. Garments should be taken apart at the seams for restyling. If the gerie, or even with clothes the gill herself has outgrown. Take, for example, the outgrown dress in a pretty pastel shade. This can be converted into a sundress, or pinafore, if you simply cut off the bodice and restyle it with an apron effect with a bib front. Use straps over the shoulders that continue con-tinue to a waistband that ties in the back. Cuttings can be used to fashion wide ruffles to edge the shoulder straps. Old organdie formals or discarded dis-carded sheer curtain material dyed a luscious pink, blue, aqua or yellow yel-low are excellent sources for material ma-terial If you plan to make a starchy pinafore the little girl can wear for dress occasions, either over a dress or over slip and blouse. Sim- Eyelet adds wear to dresiet .... clothing used Is more than ample, save time and simply cut apart at the seams. After you have the old material cut from old clothing, tint or dye as necessary. You may have better bet-ter looking clothing If you simply add color to faded out clothing, than using It as is, In its washed out appearance. Old Knit Suits Those little cotton knit , suits which your toddler-going-on-two has worn since fourteen or sixteen months of age or earlier will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be showing signs of being be-ing too small right about now. You'll find that most of them will still fit through chest and shoulders, shoul-ders, but they're useless with their pants. Cut the shirt off the pants at the waist and hem the bottom of it. It may be worn with slacks or overalls for several months in this ply use a pinafore pattern that you like and cut from the material as you would from yard goods. What about those old pinafores which the girl has outgrown? Add an extra inch or two which she needs at the bodice by inserting a band of eyelet trimming. Then add length to the garment with an eyelet eye-let ruffle at the skirt and she can have another year's wear from it. Old maternity dresses which you never want to see again have plenty plen-ty of material In them for gay dresses, especially If they're charming char-ming prints. The skirt of one dress has enough material for a two or three year old's dress or two sun suits for a small boy. Fashion Light Coats From Old Clothes In-between coats for the children are considered an extravagance to buy, but there's many a day when you'd like them to have something lightweight to wear. You probably have enough material at home for a coat project If you check the sources. An old lightweight wool and rayon ray-on topper, either yours or your husbands would be ideal. Perhaps you have some discarded men's white flannels that are too small or too yellowed ever to be used again. For yellowed woolens such as flannel, use beige or light blue dye, and you'll have a nice shade for either boy or girl. The collar can be faced with scraps of matching velveteen of the same color. Brighter shades of old material can be dyed navy blue. Brass buttons but-tons and scarlet lining will give you a beloved classic reefer style. Any materials you may use for a coat project will be all or at least part wool, and you can expect ex-pect some shrinkage when the fabric fab-ric Is dyed. Careful pressing, however, how-ever, will restore much or all of the loss to the material. Use a warm iron and a damp cloth over the material when pres-ing. pres-ing. While drying the material, keep away from both intense heat and cold. Should the material used have a combination of several types of fibers in it, or if you're not certain cer-tain Jn?t what it contains, it's wise to use an all-purpose dye. Add New Trimmings To Hand-Me-Downs If little sister is anything but enthusiastic about her big sisters clothes which she always inherits, embark on a project of redecorating redeco-rating the old clothes. Pastel dresses which are faded can be dyed bright shades, and that will give them an entirely new look. Best results are achieved if you dye a bright shade of the color col-or already in the garment, like red for pink, deep, royal blue for light blue and gold for yellow. Of course, you can add blue to a yellow dress and get green, or pink and tan to white to get ice cream pink, etc. while dyeing gives new sbirtu state. Overalls can be made inexpensively inex-pensively from some of Dad's .work shirts, an old seersucker housedress of yours, or even a corduroy skirt. These little knit shirts which you've converted to "T" shirts for overalls are usually pastel shades which are not as practical for the toddler who gets more soiled. Deep tones such as navy, wine or brown, to which they can be dyed, will be more serviceable. Overalls and slacks which are worn at the knees can be used again, if they are still large enough, if you place decorative patches on the knees. These can be very clever, indeed, if they're cut in the shape of animals and in a contrasting con-trasting shade and then sewed to the knees. Sweaters which have become too short in the sleeves can have these cut oft and the armholes bound to prevent raveling with a knit or contrasting binding. You'll then have a slip-over type sweater which keeps tots covered. These are nice to wear over a shirt. Old corduroy overalls or other pieces of similar material of your own can be made into butcher boy or boxy Jackets which are excellent excel-lent to wear with slacks or overalls, over-alls, for both boys and girls. Little Girls' Clothes Require Charming Trim Your little daughters can look charming in clothes that require little material, and a little bit more of trimmings. It's amazing what can be done with mother's old maternity dresses, robes, lln- |