CARDIGAN SUITS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)

CARDIGAN SUITS.

A CROSSOVER FRONT. It is not always necessary to wear a blouse or a jumper with a cardigan suit, y and in warm weather a modesty vest, jabot, or inset crossover front may be used with advantage as a cool substitute. Neat crossover fronts to fold inside the opening of the cardigan may be made from plain or printed linen, or linenfinished material. Two side pieces are needed, • long enough to reach from the neck down to the waist and wide enough to cross well over and fill in a sufficient portion of the open front. The pieces may be cut straight, but in order to give a good wrap-over it is better to make them with the inside cut oil the cross. They must be joined at the back of the neck by a narrow strip about eight inches long. If they are made double, of ,the same material, they set firmly and are reversible. Good shades of cream or beige or soft self colours that tone with the suit are the best. A plain ground with a tiny spot is effective. A brown spot on a cream ground looks well with a brown suit, and with a blue one a navy spot on paler blue may be used. Such materials may be bought for one and sixpence a yard, and half a yard makes two fronts of medium size.