OCR Text |
Show Woman's World K Social Calendar Is Busy, Make Your Glamour Clothes By Ertta Haley GIHLS who are getting out oi school invariably find their social so-cial calendars full to overflowing Ihese days and this calls for rather a sizable investment in what they refer to as glamour togs. No average family budget can stand the strain of this because there is necessarily an outlay for clothing for other members of the family. But if .mother and daughter take to the needle or sewing machine, ma-chine, they can turn out two or three forrnals that will do the trick. A formal may look especially tricky but for those of you who never have sewed one, the news is a wonderful surprise. It's much easier than you think. First of all, the fabrics you choose are among the easiest to sew. Organdie, eyelet and even tulle just all seem to go where you want them to while you run them on the machine or let the needle traverse the pencilled or basted lines. If you are inexperienced, choose one of the simpler designs and ask someone who knows whether the material you are working with will let itself be readily molded into something beautiful under your inexperienced in-experienced fingers. Stay away from severe fitted dresses dres-ses that look deceptively easy. They require a fitting skill that demands years of experience. Don't Let Full Skirts Or Baffles Trouble Yoa If full skirts and ruffles look tough to tackle, relax. Full skirts are easy, as you'll undoubtedly see when you run a basting . stitch through the material and try to gather it. Ruffles are easy, too, and il you have a ruffler attachment on the sewing machine, these are true simplicity. sim-plicity. If you're the sweet feminine the hemline with a similar treatment. treat-ment. The slip worn under it may be of taffeta or rayon to match. The slip does not have to be as full as the skirt, but it must be of closely woven heavy material. Select Simple Trimming For Formal Dress There is a variety of trimmings to use for dressy dresses and there are several types practical for home sewing. Applique is one of them, and if you can stitch neatly, mere is nothing noth-ing nicer for a bouffant frock of organdie. Use flowers that will go well with the color of your frock and use them on the wide, full skirt. If you like shirring, this may be done on the gathering foot or ruf fler attachment. Finger your material, ma-terial, and be assured first whether it will hang well, whether it will be limp or bouffant before you actually ac-tually sta rt the work. Bows, of course, may be used on youthful frocks and are very effective. ef-fective. Finished ribbon, carefully tied and tacked, can lend a dramatic dram-atic air to a bouffant frock. If you have chosen one of the ankle length frocks, a full taffeta slip with a ruffled edging peeking underneath it is all the fashion interest in-terest you actually need. Ribbons are being used, run through eyelet on slip trimmings to give them an old fashioned air. Your wrap may be a short coat in one of the lovely pastels. When you select it, make certain it will be of good daytime use. Graduation dresses and formats . type, you'll find that ruffles are Just the tiling this season, but don't attempt the really elaborate treat-menth treat-menth of them not so much because be-cause the ruffles are hard to make but because it's sometimes difficult diffi-cult to insert them when they're placed in small triangles along the back of the skirt. However, ruffle trimming along the hem, or around the sleeves or neckline can be managed easily. They should be hemmed before you ruffle, of course. Swishy taffeta and faille are among the materials you also will be using. Neither of them is difficult diffi-cult to handle if you are careful about basting, and this is extremely essential as they tend to slip. If your budget can't afford a formal, for-mal, it would be simplicity itself to make one of those large full skirts, and then to buy an intricate Gibson girl blouse to complete the picture. Are pretty in eyelet or organdie. This type of skirt can, of course, be worn with several different kind of tops, and that may be all you need for your dates. Practical Net Skirt Worn Three Ways A full skirt of black or white net can be very practical. The skirt itself should be four to five yards wide, with four or five rows of gathers at the waist. It should be finished with a firm belt. The first frothy topping for this skirt may be of net which is shirred closely to the bodice. Finish with straps of wide ribbon or a rhine-stone rhine-stone band. The second topping may be made of taffeta. This should be chosen in your best color. The same material may be made into bows and tacked : with tiny stitches to the skirt. The third top may be made of net, crossing the front and back to give you a V neckline. A large flower worn at the shoulder is all that is meeded to complete the costume. The main thing to remember in sewing net is that it will rael and should, therefore, be finished at the seams with double stitching nnd at |