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Show Patching Pointers For tears in children's play clothes, use a double-stitched patch for its durability. i If you have a perfect figure, settle on satin for your best dress. Its shiny surface reflects light in such a way as to point up your best qualities. The good portions of a worn-out worn-out dress may be used to line a wearable jacket, for making a blouse or jerkin, or cutting off the bodice and making a separate sepa-rate skirt. In darning fabrics with a dis tinct pattern, study the pattern carefully, and match as closely when darning. This is known as reweaving, and when carefully done, the darn can be almost invisible. in-visible. If a skirt is too short to hem, a facing may be placed in it. Stitch tlie facing, which should be of material fairly similar to the skirt, to the bottom. Press the seam before turning facing to wrong side, and baste. Turn up material and hem to place. Before you wear a' dress even once, protect the underarms from fading or wearing out with a pair of dress shields. Sew or pin them in, and remember, they must be washed frequently. Shields such as these will save cleaner's bills and often prevent toe dress from becoming ruined. A plain, drab dress can often 1 be made wearable and even quite gay by an applique around the shoulder, on the pockets, around the belt or even to the side on the skirt. Choose a simple flower design and trace the outline on contrasting fabric or cut the design de-sign from a scrap of gay print. Or, use old, leftover yarn to embroider em-broider a bouquet. You can completely disguise an unsightly tear or burn by covering cover-ing it with a decorative patch. These patches are especially suitable suit-able for youngster's clothing, sports clothes and casual lingerie. Use an applique made of contrasting con-trasting colored material from an illustration or a transfer pattern. pat-tern. Be sure that the design is large enough to cover the damaged dam-aged place. Felt appliques are effective ef-fective on many rayon fabrics; cotton prints are good against cotton; and silks may be used for silk or woolen material. Hem close to tlie edge, using a fine j needle and matching thread. |