TO REJUVENATE AN OLD FROCK
There are many ways of turning up the hems of last year's dresses so as to bring them into line with the extreme brevity of this season's skirts, but if the material is a thin one, such as crepe de chine, nothing looks better than a picot edge, advises an English writer. To get this, decide first of all the exact length wanted and run a line of tacking where the bottom of the skirt is to be.
Take the dress, together with a reel of suitable thread, to one of the many shops where they do machine hemstitching and have a row worked on the line of the tacking. Then cut through along the middle of the hemstitching to get the picot effect. If preferred, this edge can be turned over to the wrong side and a line of machine stitching worked close to the skirt's edge.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 17
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163TO REJUVENATE AN OLD FROCK Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 17
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