Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1915 — PRETTY CORSET COVER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRETTY CORSET COVER

LATEST MODEL 18 NOT AT ALL HARD TO MAKE. Flesh-Colored Crepe de Chine Recommended for the Garment Illustrated, Which Is One of the Best That Has Been Devised. A girl cannot have too many dainty eorset covers In the summer time, when the waists are so thin as to be almost transparent. The latest model is one requiring so little time or skill in making that the girl who knows how to sew will not hesitate to make at least half a dozen. The camisole illustrated is a fleshcolored crepe de chine, embroidered in self color and trimmed with narrow cluny lace, but any thin material in a delicate shade may be used, as mull, chiffon cloth, nainsook, all-over shadow lace, net in white or flesh color, China and India silks. A strip of material 36 inches long and 18 to 20 inches wide will make one cover. The latter width is for a stout figure. A very tall person might use a yard and an eighth for the length, but one yard will be enough for the average woman. The material is doubled, laid flat, and a crescent taken out at the fold, creating an oval opening for the head to pass through. A Becond crescent is taken out at the raw edges, and the ends turned up to form a hem. The long ends are finished with a narrow hem and trimmed to suit the sewer’s fancy; also the neck.

A frill of lace is a pretty finish, with baby ribbon run through eyelets an inch or so below. If one can em-

broider, the front of the cover may be lightly decorated. Lastly, the hems are run through with an elastic fitted at the ends with hooks and eyes or snappers. The camisole Is slipped over the head and the elastic brought to the front from the back. Then the front elastics are taken around to the back and closed there in like fashion to the front. A simple cover of China silk at 50 cents a yard, 36 inches wide, could be pjade in an hour at a cost of 25 centC Vdl edging to trim, if desired, would come to about 20 cents, at five cents a yard. Another pretty model that the very thin girl would like because it is such a fluffy affair is made preferably from chiffon, though anything as thin as net or China silk will answer. You take a length of wash ribbon an inch or so wide, the circumference of the bust of the wearer-to-be. This supports a wide strip of fabric gathered several times, the first with a heading. Each row of gathers is sewed down to the ribbon. The lower edge of the fabric strip is gathered once and secured to a belt of ribbon two inches wide. This is just the kind of cover the very slender girl should wear under her empire frocks or baby waist effects. It suggests only the much-de-sired natural fullness, the material being so very soft. Very narrow ribbon straps support this camisole.