Evening star., 1921-07-31
Knitting a Sweater.

Whatever you do about a new
thinking about il sufficiently to get
one that is worth while. For really
there is nothing more unsatisfactory
than a poorly made and poorly
chosen sweater.
1t is an easy matter to get books
of sweater designs and II is. further.
an easy matter to get cards of sam
pies of yarns of various sorts. With
those two sorts Of samples. you need
make no quick choice.
To begin with. consider well your
clothes. color scheme when you are
choosing a new sweater. You don't
want q bright green sweater il you
must wear it with pink and lavender
frocks You don't want an oid-blue
sweater if the hat you must wear
with ii is Of bright yellow.
Re Sure Of the Color.
And then remember this-it is
something that many persons for
get: A flame -colored wool sweater
will not be becoming to you il
fame-colored silk frock is unbecom-
ing. There are a good many persons
who apparently think that any color
in a sweater is a possible color who
would bafk at half the colors in the
rainbow for their frocks and hats
and suits. Their reasoning is OBJ
viously false. What is unseemly is
unbecoming. To be sure. we may
safely wear more vivid colors in
sweaters than We customarily wear
in frocks. But the unbecoming color
should be taboo always, whatever the
medium In which We expect to wear
il.
The new weaves of wools are so
lovely that they in themselves are
a temptation. and so are all the new
colors-or new manifestations of the
old colors. Tangerine. OF course
one of the new shades-is really a
color that would once have been
called orange. But as tangerine II
is lovely color in the soft wool or
silk and wool that is used for our
sweate
The silk and wool mixtures. per
haps. are especially tempting. for
tination of the best in both silk and
wool for sweaters. They are infinite
ly less hard in appearance than all
silk. OF course. infinitely less expen-
sive, as far as that goes.
One very beautiful silk and wool
sweater is made of pure white. with
a border and tuxedo collar Of the
same color, knitted in big checks.
The only touch Of difference is
narrow black patent leather belt,
with q black Recovered buckle.
with q Line Of Black
Another very attractive sweater
is a short hip.length slip-on of gray
shetland made with elbow sleeves
and a U-:haped neck: The neck.
dered with a tiny line Of black
angora. 1t is crocheted on, as such
q narrow edge must often be.
There is q sweater knitted Of navy
blue three-f saxony. tuxedo etyie,
with the long turn.back collar done
in rhocke and with hnrder along
the edge of the collar of henna-
colored wool. This border was knit
ted separately and sewed in place
| after IL was finished.
Then there Is a tan sweater. with
| stripe at the bottom of black and
lower edge. With it is worh wiee
| scarf with the ends Of tan for twelve
| inches, then with a band Of orange
| five or six inches wide, and then with
the center portion Of black. This is
really q most unusually and striking
sweater. and the same idea could be
| worked out with gray or soft blue
| instead of the tan.
Another sweater is made with a
| long waist which 10 sewed into a
| girdle about four inches wide. The
girdle goes twice around the hips
and ties on the side.
There are the cross-over or sur
| plice sweaters of shetland or iceland
wool that end in sash ends that tie
or loop at the back. These are lovely
| in the deep flame or orange shades
| worn with white skirts.
! And there ere collariess sweaters
Of shetland and iceland wool that
l around the neck and come down to
| the waist. the fringed ends hold
l under q leather belt Of black or
I brown or white.