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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Add Glamour to Wardrobe by Sewing Own Accessories Circular Skirt Style By Ertta Haley Whether you're clothes budget conscious or simply want to put your own ingenuity to work, your wardrobe can undoubtedly benefit by accessories of your own making. The woman who can afford only a few items basic to the wardrobe can expand it almost indefinitely by making attractive accessories for it. On the other hand, even though they can afford to go out and buy gloves, purses, scarves and other such items, many women prefer to make their own because they feel they can get something original and different. You don't have to be an expert on sewing to add these clever and attractive at-tractive touches to the wardrobe. Neither do you have to expend a lot I -Cr n 1 i 1, 1 .v .v.-:...... .. J you might try trimming off some of the brim since, most of the new hats in this style have rather narrow brims. Change the angle at which you've been wearing it, too, if that's a help. Picture brimmed hats need not be new. Cleaned and refreshed, they, too, can -take on a new look. One of the easiest ways to bring them back into circulation is to cut off some brim and to sew some stiff veiling or ribbon around the outermost outer-most edge. Add a hat band to match or contrast your dress, and possibly a bow, and see what these will do. Remodeling Helps Stretch Slender Wardrobes Easily It's a truth of long standing that your wardrobe is what you make it, rather than what your present budget bud-get happens to offer. If, in previous seasons you purchased wisely, you'll bless those days now for many of these clothes can be used. Even though clothes are worn thin in spots, a few remodeling tricks can give them the magic that yields another season or two of satisfactory satisfac-tory wear. Long, full sleeves on blouses which have worn out at the arm-holes, arm-holes, for instance, can be cut off entirely to give you a sleeveless blouse which is so popular right now. If you don't have a skirt, get right into fashion by making a brightly printed, circular type. There you have a costume that Is strictly fashion-right. Tailored blouses particularly yield themselves to having their sleeves cut off entirely. Simply bind the sleeve edge, and you may wear the blouse with not only the skirt just mentioned, but also with suits which always can use an extra blouse. Collar and cuff fashions lend themselves to many provocative changes on clothing. One of the newest is the stand-up collar that can be made for any good basic dress. If you like, add some interesting inter-esting large cuffs to a short or long sleeved dress or blouse. Use some of the new fabrics with interesting inter-esting textures to give the dress the desired lift. Old boleros take on a great deal of interest if they're lined with a bright new print. Add a bow of this same print to your hat, and you have a brand new outfit. Long rows of buttons may be added to bodices or slender skirts for a decorative touch that, is both new and novel. Purses and Gloves Yield Themselves to Treatment Unless gloves are so worn as to be cast out, then take them aside for renovating. The efforts to give them a lift are so little yet so rewarding re-warding In results. With the Interest in decorative cuffs on gloves you can see what an easy matter it is to change an old pair Into something that looks like it came out of a fashion window. Ruffles of nylon, gathers of fine lace or embroidery work are all good techniques to apply to old gloves. Among the most popular of current fashions is the full sweeping circular skirt shown here with an encircling mule train design inspired by a California Cali-fornia fashion expert. With their flopping ears and flirtatious eyes, the mules are set against a stippled background. The simple sim-ple puffed sleeved blouse is of solid colored cotton broadcloth. broad-cloth. old sailor hats knocking about in the back of the closet, here are some good ideas for them. When you get through remodeling them, you won't be able to recognize the old hats. Sailor hats, because of their regularity, reg-ularity, are easy to cover with new material. This might be some material ma-terial from a dress you've just made or a small piece of fabric picked up at the remnant counter Pep your wardrobe with a skirt . . of time and energy making them. The rewards, however, are far greater than you would dream: the pleasures of creating, the interesting inter-esting effects for the wardrobe and your friends' praise of your Ingenuity. Ingen-uity. Take, for example, the case of the girl who could afford only an inexpensive sun dress. It fitted her nicely and looked attractive but since she had to wear it all season long, she took steps to get three different dresses out of it. Her first step was to make a cape jacket for it so the dress could be appropriately worn for going shopping shop-ping as well as calling instead of just a sports' tog. This took less than a yard of material in a contrasting color and about two hours to make. It gives her an "extra dress." Her next step consisted of buying still another piece of contrasting material. This was used for making a scallopped cuff which snapped around the top of the bodice. This gave her still another change for the original dress. Make Old Hats Do Extra Duty If you feel that summery hats are a poor investment, then you probably haven't used them to their fullest wearability. Of course you can refresh veiling and change flowers or remove one or both, but even that doesn't always give you enough wear to make them worth buying. Just in case you have one or two or a renovated haU which will give just the contrasting note you need with some summer clothes. Fabric, felt or straw may be covered cov-ered in this way since you need only to cut the material to fit. It's easy to tack on with small stitches. ' You might make a belt or purse cover with the same material if there's enough left, and thus give yourself matched accessories. If the old sailor hat does not look as snappy as you would have it, |