Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1910 — Uses of Cretonne. [ARTICLE]

Uses of Cretonne.

The “Cretonne girl” is trimming her hat to match her waistcoat, jumper, girdle, belt and collar and cuff sets. With whatever materials she has left she fashions a bag which is mounted on the &ilt frame of a shopping purse that is out of commission because its handles are broken and its leather sides shabby. This does not matter, because she throws the leather away and substitutes cretonne bands for the broken or worn handles of leather. If the “cretonne girl” is unusually energetic she may contrive a parasol to match her other flowered accessories by carefully matching the cretonne figures upon the goreß of an ancient parasol cover and then mounting it upon the original frame.