"CRAZY" WAISTCOATS
WORK GIRL INVENTS A PATCH-
WORK FASHION
Made from all sorts of bits ana pieces of many-coloured velvet and brocade, "crazy" waistcoats are among the spring vagaries of fashion (states the "Daily Mail"). These waistcoats look as if they might have been adapted from greatg r a n dmother's best patchwork bedcover. Some folk saythat the fashion originated through a little workgirl in a dressmaking establishment. She was seized with a great desire to possess one of the fashionable sleeveless waistcoats, but could not afford to buy a piece of the rich satin or similar materials from which most are made, so she collected odd fragments of silks and satins, and with these she made a patchwork waistcoat. Usually the patchwork pieces aro used with less haphazardness than the waistcoat may suggest at first sight. In many of the most elaborate garments the pieces are far from being cast-off fragments. Several pieces of stuff of various colours are taken, cut into pieces of particular shape, and these are arranged to design. The crazy waistcoat is being worn with light-weight spring tailored cobtumes, and it is also likely to prove extremely popular for slipping on over summer frocks, especially white frocks.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 13
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202"CRAZY" WAISTCOATS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 13
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