Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1916 — MADE DRESS FROM OLD COAT [ARTICLE]

MADE DRESS FROM OLD COAT

Economical Woman Tells How She Constructed Pretty Garment for Her Small Daughter. How I made a dress for my little girl from a suit coat of my own: I first ripped, washed and pressed the goods carefully. Using the least worn parts ■of an old flannel night gown, I cut a fitted fining. The coat from which the dress was made was one made with a seam from the center of the shoulder seam at front and back; thus the back was made of three sections and each front of two. Placing toe center back on the center back at lining and each back side gore at each side so as to cover lining at arm’s eye, and placing fronts on each front lining in like manner, it left a small portion of lining exposed between the gores. Over these-1 fitted a box plait of material, allowing to lap enough to stitch a half-inch from edge all around and ending just below the top of the belt three inches wide, cut from one of toe front facings. The coat was long enough to make toe whole dress, and was gathered into the belt, at toe hips, one end o.f belt lapping over the other at the

front, where the dress opened. The belt was placed over material, not cutting it away. furnished sleeves again. The neck was finished with a sailor collar which, with the box plaits, were cut from small pieces which I had remaining when the suit was made. The dress buttoned down the front to the belt, which was made loose enough to slip over the head. I finished with new smoked pearl buttons, these being all the expense of a stylish-looking little dress.-“-Mrs. A. M. In Baltimore American.