WHAT MAY BE DONE WITH SCRAPS

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 10

WHAT MAY BE DONE WITH SCRAPS

"~ Ttls'-ePoiictefTul'- wh*'at"'<a'a~b'"r d'oHe with " scraps of lace and ribbon. Cuttings of piece lace are wired with fine wire to the shape of butterfly wings, perhaps edged with bebe ribbon, and the lace lit up with tiny sequins and beads. These are for pretty hair ornaments. Some-.. . times a "row""of smalt, sequins ma,ke a" * -glittering edge, or;a;'sring'of silk will*'be surroundecfcby narrow dacev Many jabots of* plain lawn or linen are made into really costly dress accessories by the scraps of lace - and embroideries': that might more than easily be thrown away by even an economical woman. Medallions of embroidery down the front of a blouse will entirely change the appearance of one which, having seen good service in some interesting shade, alters its colour by a simple home dye- . ing process. The embroideries may be dyed tq match or not •according to fancy, •thus leaving to the neck-wear the-mono-ppolyof-the-white: trimmings. ■•-:'"

This hat is carried out in white stray. lined with apple green and swathed with apple green velvet, while a large cluster of white lilac is piled on one side.

SHEATH BATHING DRESS. ■'• The sheath bathing-dress has been seen in fashionable resorts where men and women take the water together and bathing is more or less of a dress display. That it is graceful and chic cannot be denied. It has the graceful outline of all the Greek robes, of which the Direetoire gown is merely a modernised adaptation. But it has forsworn.anodesty. It reveals every line of the figure with shocking frankness, and has the inevitable slit at the side of the skirt which must be there, because no woman can sit down in the Direetoire gown without splitting it. In one such costume which attracted much attention the skirt, or knee length, ;fltjted clpsely,.except, on.the right„_side, where it was split to nearly the "waisx line anel laced with a white silk cord, disclosing a pair of silk tights of the same sea shade. With the tights were worn sea-coloured silk hose and white sandals.