CRETONNE BREAKFAST JACKETS FOR YOUNG GIRLS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 61, 18 April 1914, Page 7

CRETONNE BREAKFAST JACKETS FOR YOUNG GIRLS.

For a young girl 'a breakfast jacket there is nothing prettier than white cretonne, printed with a small flower in pink, blue, green, or lavender, and finished about the throat and wrists with deep frills in English eyeletting - embroidery or with machine-embroidered frills resembling the old-fashioned tambour' work. Particularly charming is the half-fitted jacket model which barely covers the hips, has slightly cutaway fronts from the waistline, where the slight'* fullness of the garment is held in. w*|h a self-material belt, and a deep V-nefik partly filled with a net tucker. , v Another, pretty model, but very like a Chinaman's shirt, closes in the back, is belted ; at the normal waistline and has kimono-cut sleeves finished at the wrists with a tight-fitting band. This type of jacket should never be trimmed with lace or muslin frills as they would wholly destroy its Oriental character. Either one v of these easily made little jackets, worn with a white tailored skirt in crash, mohair or serge, makes as dainty and as quickly put on a costume for breakfast as any girl could, possibly desire. It is also one which can be made up from materials usually tb v be fouHd about the average house, since any half-worn white skirt of reasonably heavy material will answer for the lower section, while the jacket can be made from an extra window curtain, a portiere or even the c:over-lid or the' valance of a bed. '