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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Are You Tired of Your Old Coat? Give It New Life by Remodeling TF YOU'VE decided that your spring or fall coats have given j you just about all the wear they will as coats, but that the fabric is still j strong and durable, they can be concerted con-certed into attractive suits, skirts or jackets. As long as there is still an apparent ap-parent scarcity of good woolens, you will be well repaid for any effort ef-fort you spend on the reconversion of old coats into useful and even smart clothing. Practically speaking, there is enough material in almost any good coat for at least a skirt, and very often a short jacket. It's not even tedious work to do this remodeling if you will space out the work carefully, care-fully, instead of trying to do the whole thing at once. The time spent on sewing depends upon your own individual skill. It can be completed in an afternoon, but what's the rush? Take it slowly, because your reward will be a brand new outfit that no one would recognize as a made-over. Choose Style to Fit Material on Hand Naturally when you are remodeling remodel-ing you will be somewhat but not too much limited in what you can do with the material you have. If the coat has no seams in the back the job is an easy one because this can be used for the back of the skirt. If the coat is gored or pleated, select a pattern you can adapt accordingly. Because of the coat opening in front you will want a skirt that has several sections In front at least two. You can of course have a center pleat or center seam if you wish. ever, should you discover spots or streaks of fading in the coat, turn the fabric to the wrong side and use that. Fading won't occur, of course, on the darker fabrics or tweeds, but blue and green pastel coats may show some traces of fading. You'll find that the weave on the wrong side, though not as smooth as on the side already used, is perfectly usable and serviceable. If you are using an old coat for a jacket and find that the edges and buttonholes are worn, try a contrasting contrast-ing color for piping the opening and make buttonholes in that. A very good idea for this would be to use some fabric from the same material as the skirt as this would tie the outfit together. Take as much care in remodeling as you would with details on a new fabric; otherwise, it's foolish fool-ish to put your time into the sewing. All seams should be pinked or otherwise other-wise finished so there is no raveling ravel-ing of the material when you begin sewing and wearing the clothing. If you want to add decorative touches to the coat, find some interesting in-teresting buttons or pins. You may even have some nice fur that could go to the collar and cuffs. Or, if you have only fluffs of nice fur, have the tailor make them into pom poms or similar decoration for you and use them as you would a pin. you have an old coat ... You will find in many cases that a jacket can be made simply by refitting the top and cutting the sleeves down to three - quarter length. How is this possible? Well, if you've noticed the styles now being be-ing shown, you'll see lots of short jackets, and lots of figure-hugging ones which make them adaptable for this type of remodeling. Once the lining has been removed from the coat there will usually be ample space in one of these coats for this kind of jacket. Woolens Combine Easily With Other Colors If you find that you just can't make a jacket out of your coat in addition to the skirt, then select a lovely bright color or dark one to go with it as a jacket. Some of the lovely combinations you see are black skirts with fuchsia or purple jackets, gray with kelly green, brown with toast or cinnamon or beige, black with beige or green. Tweeds combine especially well with bright .green or blue. Even if you find that extra material ma-terial is necessary to make a jacket for the skirt, the material you have already used besides the economy of home sewing will work such an economy on the outfit that any small outlay of money is well worth the effort. Convert it into a suit. If you have purchased the coat to go with a skirt they were selling sell-ing coat and skirt sets some time ago then use the coat for making the jacket. As I've said several times, woolens wool-ens wear extremely well, and since they take colors with a great deal of ease, you can probably use the fabric easily after cleaning. How- |