APRONS TO MATCH WORK DRESSES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 19

APRONS TO MATCH WORK DRESSES

A LTILITAIUAN IDEA.

When making a work dress of wash material make an apron also of the same material to wear with it. Let it be of a style that goes well with that particular dress, and when the two are worn together the effect will not be nearly so suggestive of ‘'kitchen apparel” as otherwise it would be. lu fact, one might, at a single glance, take it to be part of the dress itself. The advantage of this is obvious to every woman who does her own housework and frequently goes from her work to answer the doorbell (remarks a writer in an exchange). This plan has been most successfully followed by one busy woman and recently she elaborated it in a way that may interest other women. She has a new work dress of cheerful rose colour, with a matching apron that no one would take for an apron at all. It is simply a piece of cloth, — inches across at the top. its top coming about 7 inches below the neek-liiie. From its top it curves gracefully on each side-to a width of 12 inches at hip length, and from here curves again to a width of Hi inches at the' bottom. 'Phis is wide enough to be very serviceable indeed. It has a pocket, but no strings or straps. Its fastening is arranged for by means of small inconspicuous buttons on the dress, there being three of them on each side ; where the top of the apron comes, and three at each side at hip level. The apron buttons on to . the lower one of each set of buttons. The extra buttons are required to make the dress look finished when the apron is not worn. With the apron on. the effect is simply that of a dress made with a .wide panel in front. It takes hut a minute to put on or remove the aproii. and it is quickly laundered.

Among many ideas that present themselves from this nnnel-apron are these two suggestions. The panel might have a seam across the hips of the dress has one there. For a stout figure the panel might come up to the shoulder seams and be cut down in a deep V at the neck, and the panel might also be n little wider.