The sun., 1910-01-09
THE INDISPENSABLE SWEATER
TT rs As PRETTY NOWADAYS
AS 1T rs COMFORTABLE.

nc Hand Made sweater Expensive
prOvements In the Machine Made
Garments-The Problem Of Cleansing
Effective CelOr Touches EmpI eyed.
Just what women did before some pub
lie benefactor. invented the sweater IT,
would be hard to say. Probably there
we're comfortable ways of keeping warm
on wintry days out of doors and there
wasn't the prejudice against heavy under
Aannels that there is in this day Of over
heated houses. but the fact remains that
women would nightly miss the sweater
now il some calamity should wipe il out
OF existence.
OF course il was the man who first
evolved the idea OF the comfortable gar
ment. and the first women who saw a great
hight in connection with the sweater wore
models like those Of the men. Even now
some very sporty and youthful athletic
girls insist upon wearing regulation boys
sweaters, slipping on over the head,
shapeless and rolled up at the bottom;
hut the average woman demands some
thing more trig and becoming. and in
response to her demand women's sweaters
have gradually gained in attractiveness
until now they are as pretty as they are
comfortable.
The hand made sweater comes high
but is OF course the last word Of smart
ness. Now that the long coat sweater
has come in with the motoring fad and
is being adapted to many other uses
the cost Of the hand made model scars
still higher. and $40 is not an unusual price
for such a model, while occasionally the
price runs much higher.
Great variety is shown in the stitches
used and little original touches in pockets.
collar cuffs and colorings give individ-
uality to the garments. Moreover the
hand made sweater may be ordered in
any color desired while the machine made
model is shown in q limited range OF
color schemes.
When this is said. however. the whole
case for the hand made sw eater has been
presented and many q woman who could
perfectly well AFFORD to wear. the hand
made article contents herself with ma
chine made sweaters, preferring TO have
several at time or frequent changes
rather than one more costly and hand
some sweater.
The manufacturers have improved
greatly in their handling OF the sweater
problem. copying lines and stitches of
good hand made models 90 cleverly and
perfectly that IL is difficult to discriminate
between the Two. As one girl recently said:
Il never know whether a friend is wear
ing a hand knitted or machine knitted
sweater nowadays unless can turn back
the front and see whether 1t has the.
machine facing OF silk OF satin
This 10 particularly true Of the models
m several new stitches which have been
turned out by machine this year. One
Of these stitches 10 rough and effective.
copied exactly from a hand knitted de-
sign but with the surfaces reversed.
That is, what In the outside OF the hand
stitch is the inner side OF the machine
stitch. The manufacturer made this
change advisedly. having decided that the
wrong side OF the hand knitted model
vas more attractive than the right side
and the result justifies the theory. az will
be seen on examining the two sweaters
side b. side.
The ali white sweater continues to be
hrst chofee. though 10 is not so practical
for hard usage as a darker garment. Il
Is. however, more becoming than the grays
and blues and browns and reds, and while
: soils easily some women seem to have
good luckin cleaning or washing l.
II is a tieklish Job, this cleansing OF a
soiled white sweater. Send il to the
cleaner and It Is likely to come home fluffy
and white but lamentabIy stretched.
Try washing 1t save in a most sophisti-
Gated way and IL either shrinks or
stretches into shapclessness. One woman
whose sweater comes out from its launder-
ing looking irreproachable time after
time washes IL in cheesecloth bag.
That is. she puts the sweater in the bag.
sosks il in warm water and CASTLE soap.