AN EYE ON THE CLOCK

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19458, 24 December 1934, Page 5

AN EYE ON THE CLOCK

A NEW STYLE OF PATTERN. There are now new patterns on the market from which you choose your style according to the time you’re prepared to take in making it (says an i English writer). j Classified among the “short morn- : ing” tasks, comes a dainty undergarment made with a trim hip-yoke and curved side-pieces, the sections of j which tit so easily into one another that no time is wasted in fixing them. The binding of the edges with a crossway band is the work of a quarter of an hour, so that in the end there may be time left for embroidering an initial as well. “A long afternoon” is the label attaching to a negligee for wearing in bed. while you take your early cup of tea There are no seams in it that you would notice, yet it drapes across the front in an alluring fashion, and its apologies for sleeves have the new wing effect. A marabout edging in flesh-pink is quickly ryn on to all the edges and looks more effective than any amount of elaborate stitchery. If you are clever you will trim and neaten the garment, in one operation. “Between dawn and dinnertime” is needed for the making of a cotton nance-frock, which might thus be donned on the day it is begun. It is a sleeveless affair, cut very low at the back, and after the graceful seams have been stitched and the neck and armholes turned in with a sarsnet ribbon to neaten them, the only trimming consists in rows of vertical gathers to give fulness to the bodice front. The hem is not bound, but stitched round four or five times by machine, according to the latest edict for skirts. “A one-hour ,iob” Is claimed for a little evening cape which can be cut in a single piece from 39-inch wide ring velvet. It has square-cut sides that fall over Ihe arms to the elbows, and long ends that can either be tied in a bow at. tlie front, or brought round to the hack and fastened there. The sole stitchery involved is tlie fastening back of the edges on the inside by some feather-stitching. The more open and wide the stitching the less apparent is it likely to be from the front,