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Show Clothing Specialist Tells How to Remodel Hosiery Remodeling the family hosiery is one means of stretching the family budget and at the same time of keeping the family better clad, according ac-cording to Ellen Agren, extension specialist in clothing of the Utah State Agricultural college. The heel darn can be hidden easily ea-sily below the shoe line by following follow-ing this simple method: 1. Turn hose wrong fide out. 2. Stitch diagonally from the center of the bottom of the hose up onto the heel. Let the stitching extend up cnto the heel from cn" half to one inch, only as far as the darn shows above the shoe line Lengthen the machine stitch and stretch the hose while stitching The hose may be sowed up by hand using a short running stitch. 3. Cut along bottom ed-jo cf , the hose bilov.' the stitching. Remove Re-move the orii.lna seam. 4. Make an o'''n fiat s;ni by titchirg each cut edtre to the bottom bot-tom cf the h'se, using a close ! running stitch. This method of hose remodeling pulls the darn below the shco line and d'cs not change the fit of the ho c, states Miss Agren. |