Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — ECONOMY PRACTICED IN MENDING CLOTHES [ARTICLE]

ECONOMY PRACTICED IN MENDING CLOTHES

Old Skirt, Ready for Rag Bag, • Can Be Repaired. If Too Tight Around Hips, or Too Large, It Can Be Remade—Romper for Johnny or Jumper for Mary Can Be Made. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Have you an old white skirt which you thought ready for the rag bag? What is the matter with it? It is too tight around the hips. Rip out the hem and if it is worn on the fold cut It off. Raise the skirt until It is large enough arouiftl the hips. Cut off the top and attach to an inner belt. Unless your old Inner belt is as good as new buy a new one, for the inner belt often makes the success or failure of a skirt. Even off the bottom, and if not too short, face it. Otherwise you will have to make a false hem. What is a false hem? It Is merely a strip of cloth, straight or bias, as preferred, which is set on the bottom of the skirt to represent a hem (not a facing). It may be of the same •or of contrasting material. Use a plaid or a striped material, add a touch to pockets or belt, and tehow your friends a brand-new sport skirt. Is your skirt too large? Either take up the seams or recut it into a new •style. Or, perhaps the top is too worn to use any more. Put on a new yoke of similar material. In case you have no more of the old material use any white material and wear the skirt with middy blonses or one of the newlong blonses. Yon might make a new middy blouse from the old skirt. Use the bottom of the skirt for the bottom of the blouse. Measure up the length desired and cut the top of the blouse by a plain waist pattern. Add sleeves, collar and belt of similar or contrasting material and you are ready for the next picnic. Does johnny need a new romper or a Sunday suit? Get out your pattern and arrange all of it on the unworn parts of the skirt before cutting. Slake It all white or trim it with colored scraps from the useful rag bag. The material Is strong enough to last Johnny a season and by that time he will' have outgrown lit. Or la it Mary

that Is in need? Make her a jumper dress to wear With thin white guimpes which you can make from your old waists. But you have no Mary or Johnny you don’t need another middy blouse? However,''you do need s vestee for /our tailored suit and that old pique, linen, or madras skirt will furnish the very latest material. Use your old vestee for a pattern or get a new style. Cut it double if you want ft lined with the same material or line it with lawn and have two vestees. Cover button molds with the same material, or use pearl or black bone buttons, and you have as stylish aD article as you’ll find in the shops and for a much smaller amount. And that green linen needs a new collai and cuff set which you can cut from the old skirt. ~ So take that old skirt out of the bag and look It over to see what wonder* you can perform.