Gunnison Valley News | 1927-06-02 | Page 2 | Making use of Maps for Dress Patterns

Making Use of Maps for Dress Pattern Old maps are amusing and interesting, interest-ing, says the Farla correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. Whether Wheth-er they will be altogether suitable as patterns for dresses remains to bo seen. The French couturiers, who : have ransacked tlie world for ideas, have now hit upon the notion of do-signing do-signing geographical frocks. They have taken the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Seven-teenth century maps and propose to convey their quaint colors and eon-tours eon-tours to silks and satins. Afternoon and evening robes are dotted with many-starred mariners' compasses nnd little Images indicating winds. Sometimes the new frocks are covered cov-ered with wavy seas and tree-bearing islands, but others are simply bordered bor-dered with map scales. The firm which first thought of this ornamentation, made a large collection of early travel books containing primitive maps. It is said that the new models have been favorably received by the "trade."