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VICTORY CLOTHES
How to Make These Skirts and Blouses for the "Welcome* Home!"
WILL A W. AUM
men are coming back to us, laundered. Crepe de chine would look
OUR from camp and from that far-off well made up by this pattern and so
Over There. Of course we shall would wash satin.
"doll up" for their home-coming
and are planning our Victory Clothes. '
Colors will reign again this spring, .soft
becoming shades that bring out the best
in our complexions, provided we choose
them rightly. We are no longer dependent
on Germany for our dyes; Uncle Sam
is turning out just as many colors and infinitely
better ones than ever came to us
from across the water. So when we wear
our Victory Clothes we can feel an added
pride in them for they are strictly an American
product. ' ..
The four illustrations on this page are
of the ever popular blouse and separate
skirt. Perhaps there is no other type of
garment that can be turned
to so many uses as can the
separate skirt, whether it A/f RS. RRVM sat in the Editorial Office ofTSEFARMER'SWIFE
be of the strictly tailored ¦*"¦* "talking clothes." She talked with such fetchingwi sddm thai
type of wool material, or a business woman who was listening, exclaimed, "If I could , have
the dressier type of satin, you to help me select and make my clothes, what'a burden would roll
silk poplin or taffeta. off my tnindl"
'Whichever of these four Well , we of THE FARMER'S WIFE own Mrs. Krum! Why not
.styles you may select, you make use of her? If you plan to make any one of these blouses or
will have no trouble in turn- skirts—or all of theml—she will be glad to answer any questions that
ing out a good-looking skirt,. you.cannot settle for yourself. All you need to do is to askl
for all four are of the '"" ~ Be sure to send a 3-cent stamp for reply-postage. Address
simplest construction and your letter this way: Mrs. Willa W. Krum, Care O/THEFARMER'S
•WIFE, St. Paul, Minn.
should not prove difficult
for any home dressmaker.
The- four blouse waists
shown with the skirts are also of/the
simplest construction and offer suggestions
that can be worked out in various
materials, and for various types of figures.
•A, our Stout Lady wears a skirt fashioned
by Pattern No. 8875 and her
blouse by "No. 8861. Both garments belong
to the strictly tailored class and have
exceptionally good lines for a full figure,
or one inclined to be rather stout. The
long collar, with a semi-surplice effect adds
height to the fi gure and takes away from
the width as do also , the inverted pleats
in the skirt. The back extends over the
shoulders on to the front in yoke effect
and the fullness at the yoke line is becoming
to stout as well as slender figures. I
added a row of stitching % inch from the
edge of the collar and cuffs to carry out
the tailored idea. These are made double
of the material.
Stout Lady's skirt is of a dark wool material
with a tiny hairline stripe. Serge
or poplin would make up equally well.
The blouse is white wash silk, a material
that gives excellent service and is easily
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that you can pjit together in two or three
hoiirs'and yet is just as stylish and good-
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looking as the other, skirts'. This is made
The one button fastening is very pop- of blue-and-tan plaid. The blouse is
ular on the tailored waists this year. a rather heavy cotton voile and the Gypsy
Figure B shows blouse and skirt with collar and turn-backs on the cuffs are of
splendid lines for the average figure. These blue voile to match the blue in the skirt.
are also of the tailored type. The skirt You can use tan voile, if that color is
material is dark blue serge and the blouse, becoming to you. The collar and tie are
blue-and-white striped wash silk, the blue all cut in one. I am sure if you use this
stripe matching the blue of the skirt. - The pattern, you will end up by making three
notched collar is of white wash satin. Lit- or four waists by it and all your friends
tle white "turn-backs" can be added to will ask to .borrow your pattern the first
the cuffs if preferred. Such a color com- time you appear in
bination is very smart looking and is equally
suitable for home or business wear.
Plain black tailored buttons were used to
trim the skirt, which opens at the left side
of the front.
C illustrates a combination- that will appeal
to the girl of,eighteen or twenty, as
well as to older women who are still happy
in the slenderness of youth. For this I
used embroidered voile for the bjouse and
trimmed the collar and' the ruffles at the
top of the long cuffs with inch-wide "val"
lace, slightly fulled on-J tiny pearl buttons
decorate each side of the front. This
blouse gives the new square neck line, and
while it is not so universally becoming as
the V-sbaped neck, it can be worn by anyone
with a plump neck.
The skirt is of silk poplin, made crosswise
of the goods. This is a fad of the
season, and is really a better style for this
material than to have the ribs running
round and round. If you use the poplin
this way, you^will have to piece it under
the lower tuck. Use the 40-inclTwidth.
D is skirt 'pattern No. 872° and blouse
pattern- No. 8718. I have not been able
to make 'up my mind which I like the
best ; can you? Pattern No. 8718 is a regular
"love" of a blouse and very becoming
and No. 8729 -is a little three-piece skirt
' one of them! The
belt in the illustration is a narrow leather
one but one can be made of the material
of the skirt. An inch and a half is the
width for belts just now, or else a very
wide one, say three and a half or four
inches. Two _ ratker large
buttons finish the front of
the blouse.
The blouse waists can all
be made by the flat method
of construction that I
have mentioned so often
(see THE FARMER'S WIFE
for Sept.) and so also can
the skirts, with the exception
otthe one with the two
large tucks. Follow the
directions for that.
Inapplyingthis flat method
to skirts, I finish up the
fronts and the sides, leaving.either
the middle, back seam open, or
a side back seam (as in the case of Skirt
Pattern No. 8875 which has six gores).
In this way you can finish up the front of
the skirt, placket and all, while it is still
flat and do almost all the pressing while
it is in this stage. Then all that is left is
to stitch up this seam and mount the
skirt on the belting. Follow the directions
for pressing that were given in the
article on Home Tailoring in THE FARM-
ER'S WIFE for October.. Hang the skirt
the very last thing, using a twelve-inch
rule; or a yard stick if" you have one.
Measure up from the floor an equal distance
all round the skirt, using tailor's
chalk, or if you have not that, ordinary'
chalk will do. In the shops they are making
the skirts six inches from the floor
except for elderly women. Four and four
and a half is the approved length for them.
These skirts are not the extremely narrow
ones and will be found comfortably
wide for any sort of wear. All of them
are mounted on ^ what is called stayed
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