WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 20 (Supplement)

WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

“A I?os 0 Dress, please Dressmaker!” writes a Wendy Lady. V er y well! You will want a roll of pale pink crepe paper, and one of leaf green; be sure to get non-inflammable paper, won’t you, dears? As you will see when you study the picture, the bodice is made of the green paper, in the shape of the rose’s | petals. Jt’s cut like Diagram A, but iyou had better do it in newspaper first of all to get it to fit properly. It would be a very good plan to make a tiny under-bodicg in white lawn, like Diagram B; then you can stitch both the skirt and the “sepals” on to this firm foundation. The skirt is made of as many huge round pink petals as you can cut from the roll of papers. If you want to bc very extravagant, you may use two rolls and make about a dozen petals, all overlapping prettily. Or else you can make a wild-rose dress and just have five petals; they’re cut like Diagram. C, and when you have cut them all out, you must gather them up round the top edges, and stitch them to the under-bodice. Catch each petal lightly to its neighbour about halfway down the skirt, and pull out the bottom edges so that they curl up daintily in true rose fashion. You must wear very short pale pink sateen knickers under this dress.