Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1912 — NEW COSTUME FOR TEA COSY [ARTICLE]

NEW COSTUME FOR TEA COSY

Though Simple, It May Be Made Very Pretty, and Is Almost No Trou- ( ble to Make. If you haven’t time and materials to dress your tea cosy as a French aristocrat or a colonial dame, don’t despair. Instead of allowing the teapot to get cold for want of wearing attire of the conventional type, sally forth to the shopping district, purchase a medium-sized doll, amputate it from the waist down and dress It in a circular cape made of whatever flowered material is in the house. The garment Bhould fit smoothly over the doll’s shoulders and become only gradually wider as it lengthens sufficiently to cover the cosy. In order that the lower- edge shall not crinkle up or sag inward, there should be a hem wide enough to accommodate a whalebone. The fronts of the cloak are joined above an Inner staying strap and may be fitted closely about the neck under a fancy collar of lace or embroTSfery. On the cosy’s head is worn a witch’s cap made of material matching the cape and trimmed in a way to emphasize the tall peak. The cap consists of two triangles of the brocaded or flowered silk, lined with buckram to give it stiffening and adjusted to the head so that the seams come in at the center of the front and back. The practical feature about this new tea cosy costume is that it may be easily removed and dry-cleaned, whereas the more elaborate costumes of this sort nearly always are useless when soiled.