WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1927, Page 21

WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.

My Dear Children, —A "Herald’s” dress is a nice fancy costume for a boy. and it can be fashioned from noninflammable crepe paper in vivid colours—red, emerald-greeu and gold, with black for hat and touches in the trimming. First you must make the inner tunic in magyar style like Diagram. A; use green or black paper for this. The tunic should reach to just below the top of the trousers —you needn’t make special ones if they’re fairly short and if long black stockings are worn pulled right up over the edges. Large culls of contrasting paper should next be sewn or pasted on to the ends of the tunic sleeves. And now you’re ready for the exciting part —making the upper tunic! This is cut in two pieces—oblongshapes as wide as the width across from side to side, and as deep as from shoulder to knee. They’re fastened together by tabs of paper over the shoulders, and it would be a good plan to back these tabs with tape to make them firmer. Diagram B explains the method of

joining the back and front of the tunic together. A big rampant lion, fieur-de-lys, or any other emblem you fancy, should be cut out of contrasting hued paper and pasted on the front of the tunic, and the little hat is cut out of black paper, as shown in Diagram C. There are two pieces that go to make up the hat, and you will leave to experiment a bit in newspaper, before you get the exact measurements. When you’ve done so, paste or sew the two sides of the brim strip together, and stick on the circular crown. A jaunty touch is added by the gay, feather” of emerald green paper—make this by cutting the paper in narrow strips about twelve inches long, folding each in half, and glueing them on to a length of stiff wire, which can afterwards be bent to shape. The final effect is gained by making a long trumpet of cardboard covered with gold paper, and having a gay coloured banner with streamers depending from it —oh! and don’t forget two ornamental garters to go round each leg just below the knee! —Wendy’s Dressmaker.