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Show Wo man's World Tailored Slacks and Vcsls Arc Easily Made from Men's Snils TF YOU can persuade your son or 1 husband to part with that old shiny suit, you will have the makings mak-ings of a nice slack suit right in hand. So often suits may become ill-fitting for the men folk. Sleeves may be too short, trouser legs not quite long enough. In some cases, the vest loses all use because it is too tight to wear. With expert cutting and fitting, many of these old suits can be successfully suc-cessfully remodeled into a smart slack suit for the teen-aged girl. If there is a great deal of fitting to be done, it would be best to buy a pattern to assure accurate cutting. If you are expert at cutting and fitting, make up a pattern of your own. If there is little fitting to be done, rip the trousers out completely complete-ly and trim them as necessary. In woolen fabrics it is essential to allow a generous half inch for seams on all edges beyond the stitching lines. Mark the paper patterns pat-terns to indicate the sections to be cut from lining fabric and mark to show the lengthwise thread. In making the slacks or trousers, It is especially important to have them hang properly. By no means should they be too tight, as this will not only give a poor appearance, appear-ance, but it will cause the fabric to pull apart easily. Into a trim vest. machine-stitched at all points, and the stitches should be as short as is practical. If the seams on the Inside of the slacks are made as neatly as possible, pos-sible, the garment will hang well and look well. Work on a fiat surface sur-face and press each seam before it joins another. The seams should come together without stretching or pulling. I can't stress pressing too highly when working with wool. All the seams need constant pressing to assure good fit and workmanship, and the final finishing touch to the slacks should be a complete pressing. press-ing. Cutting and Making The Vest From a Suit If you are making a vest for a girl's slack suit from a man's suit vest, it will be necessary to cut the vest apart at shoulder and underarm under-arm seams. Then fit the front and back vest to the figure. The second button from the bottom should come to the waistline. The seams are then pinned directly direct-ly on -top of the shoulders so that the waistline is In the above position. posi-tion. The vest will extend away from the figure at the front armhole. Draw this excess down to the underarm under-arm seam and make a dart into the underarm seam. Shoulder seams should be marked after taking the vest off the figure, and also the side seams on the front vest. This is done with basting. Underarm darts both in the vest and lining should be marked. Pin both fronts together. Cut off at the shoulder and sides allowing generously (about an inch) for seams. The darts in the vest and lining should be stitched separately. Slash darts in the vest and press open. Turn under one-half inch on vest and lining at shoulders and underarm under-arm seams, ripping back outside the stitching when necessary. Baste the edges together and press. Stitch close to the edge on the machine. A knitted back for this type of vest does not take much work and will make a very attractive outfit for the girl. If desired, a calot can also be made for the slack and vest suit, in the same color as the knitted back. Remodel a man's old suit Lay the pattern on the fabric correctly, cor-rectly, making sure that both are on a smooth surface. The machine will need some adjusting too, before you attack the sewing problem. Men's suits are made of thicker material ma-terial than you ordinarily use for sewing and the stitches will have to be adjusted to the weight of the fabric. When you stitch over three or four thicknesses, try the stitch on scraps before actually beginning. Tailoring the slacks Is a real challenge chal-lenge as it requires a different technique tech-nique from the sewing on ordinary fabrics. Be generous with pins and bastings. It's hard to rip out stitches on material of this type, and it's a good idea to be right before you put those finishing stitches in the slacks. The slacks will have to be |