The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
BY MRS. ANNETTE GUTH
DressmakinE ConsuItant for the Home
Making Center. New York.
Written for NEA Service

DressmakinK Consultant for the Home
Making Center. New York.
Written for NEA Service
MAKING clothes over for the H.
Va year-old or so is the hardest
type Of remodeling, but it can be
done successfully.
The reasons it is hard are these:
Adolescent girls are extremely SEN
sitiye about their clothes, Just be-
coming dress conscious as they are
and they shrink from having folks
know 1t is mothers dress or older
sisters suit they are wearing.
At this age girls like clothes ex-
actiy like their school girl chums are
wearing; standardized taste is
theirs.
Want colder" Clothes
Last but not least, they are tired
OF the simple, childish, wash things
they have been wearing. are en-
Wous of older sisters pretties and
yearn for sophisticated apparel.
Often you can rip, turn, clean
or wash a dress Of your own or an
older sisters suit and re-cut it in a
l2-year pattern, perfectly.
Don't try to make over a dress
scanty in its material that is rather
cut-up already in its original guise
Use such frock for drop skirt to
another dress, for trimming, or fo~
a little jacket.
In remaking things for the ado
leScent, try to pick a model to go
by that has a touch of sophistica-
ton supplied by the trimming, the
zig-zag cut of yokes or front clos
ing, or the sleeves. Young girls need
simple silhouetteS, simple necklines,
simplicity throughout, as matter
Of fact.
Remake Sports Suit
You can remake almost any
sports suit you have for your young
daughter or sister in the original
lines, by just cutting 1t smaller all
over. But don't try to use over fit
ted garments or printed things,
without careful consideration. Their
very fabric may be too grown-up
and sophisticated for her.
An excellent way to make over
a plain crepe, semi sheer wool, a
Jersey, flannel or tweed frock in
monotone is to plan one-piece
frock, utilizing the idea of skirt
yoke and pleats to give fullness be-
low 1t.
If you are short of material often
you can piece the waist to the hip
yoke under the belt, and even let
in the material for the pleats, press
ing them in so the seams won't
show. Sleeves can be cut in one,
in the new raglan mode, or they
can be set in. They can be pieced,
too, with the top long and fairly
straight and a little puff or deep
cuff stitched on to finish out.
Tunic Idea Helps
If you want to make over AIMS
own frocks from last year and she
has heightened so it seems hope
less, have you thought of the tunic
theme? 1t is fertile with ideas.
Buy a yard or a little over of
plain material if the frock is printed
Or printed If the frock is plain.
Make drop skirt, with the lower
part of this new material, open the
side front seam and let the new
make little panel up
there and add simple little one
sided scarf of the new material.
The too-short sleeves can be given
the requisite new length by cuffs
of the new material or even puffs
and cuffs of it.
This is an excellent way to use
a leftover silk coat to one of
mothers or sisters last years en-
sembles, also. It is one of the
easiest ways to utilize any type Of
garment.
Last but not least we come to
the way to use up last years bo-
lero that mother or older sister has
tired Of, or has slightly outworn.
Bolero Should Be Short
You probably have material
enough to pleat the skirt, or put
it on a yoke, if it Is circular. by
cutting out the worn back section
and still having enough for the
l2-year-old.
Make the bolero childisllly short
and with little cap sleeves and
then give the little one a made
over little blouse with touch of
sophistication in the collar-tie neck
line.
This suit can be navy blue,
brown, green, or any plain color,
With white blouse or a very fancy
material with a plain colored
blouse. Do give her : grown-up
belt, with buckle, for it viii endear
the whole suit to her.
This is a year when you can
utilize a leftover coat by cutting
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