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Show Remodel Your Clothes to Get That 'This Season' Style Look By CHERIE NICHOLAS T IKE to sew? If you do, the pres- SIiV." ' ent "duration" period brings op- "jg'SyV" r"" portunity to your very door, knock- v'Sz"' ing as it never knocked before, with " the result that a new order of things T IKE to sew? If you do, the pres-' pres-' ent "duration" period brings opportunity op-portunity to your very door, knocking knock-ing as it never knocked before, with the result that a new order of things is taking place in the world of fashion, fash-ion, due to wartime economy. The I challenge has been brought to women wom-en to conserve and to save by "making "mak-ing the most of what you have." The sketches in the illustration herewith have a story all their own to tell as to ways and means of achieving smart camouflage for dresses too good to discard yet needing need-ing some deft touch to give them a "this-season" style look. If you have not already done so, learn to take advantage of the labor-saving devices available in modern sewing machine kits. It's simply amazing what can be achieved in way of scalloping, tucking, ruffling, embroidering embroi-dering and so on right on your sewing sew-ing machine. It behooves every woman to seek instruction at neighborhood neigh-borhood sewing centers as to the use of the cunning contrivances that go to make up modern sewing machine ma-chine equipment. For instance, only the duly initiated know that there's a two-thread embroidery attachment attach-ment available in sewing machine kits that permits you to stitch two threads of different colors at one time. The bodice top to the dress, sketched in the upper right corner, was made of a beige flannel stitched diagonally. This new improvised front took the place of a well-worn section. The dress with the fitted bodice and the dirndl skirt was sans trimming trim-ming of any sort last season. To give it a new look the resourceful owner thereof lavished intricate braid trim on waist and skirt, using a braider attachment. A transfer pattern makes it easier to achieve a pleasing design. The pretty and very fashionable low square neckline of the black velvet bodice, also the above-elbow sleeves shown to the left, are finished fin-ished off with a ruche trim of snowy organdy, the same hemmed to a nicety on the sewing machine. Centered to the left, a simple crepe frock has the worn places on the waist completely concealed under un-der two wide scalloped bands of contrast con-trast fabric, with matching bands on the sleeves. Black on black is smart for this, either black velvet on crepe or black satin. Color contrast would also be effective. The girl with the long bob in the lower left corner takes pride in telling tell-ing her friends how she transformed a muchly worn ugly-duckling dress into a chic frock by making a new bodice front of a plaid remnant found in the family scrap bag, using the good parts of the discarded front to make the becoming collar. A new yoke and new sleeves of dainty pastel wool rejuvenates the dress centered in the group. The collar is made out of scraps of the part cut from the dress. Take a square of gay print. Self fringe it all around or hemstitch it around on the sewing machine. Cut this square diagonally across, making two triangles. Tie one about the neck nonchalantly. Cut the remaining re-maining triangle into two small ones, tying each about the wrist as shown in lower right corner. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |