NEW SUITS FROM OLD
Last year's cardigan suit can be made to do another season's service with a little renovation and alteration, advises an English writer. Remove marks, shine, and dinginess by applying a brush dipped in ammonia and water. To bring the skirt into line with the fashionable length do not shorten from the hem but from the top. This is a good way of removing bagginess at the back, as the baggy part will be taken higher up and the i.extra fullness at the waistband can be ■+aken in by means of darts or gathers As this method of shortening reduces the size of the side opening it is advisable to use a new waistband of elastic petersham.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 July 1939, Page 17
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120NEW SUITS FROM OLD Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 July 1939, Page 17
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