The Archive · 1939

Turn-About Prints

Coats are not to be left out of the news. They follow the half-and-halt fashion, just og do blouses, frocks and even skirts, These novel coats, and We are to see much of them during the coming months, have, say, a brown top and a green skirt, Or, we rmiay went a coat with a pineggreen top half and a plaid lower-half.

Housecoats, too, follow the same ines. They are being made in what are called "turn-about-prints." The sleeves and back and side of these are, perhaps, of a dark material pate termed white, while the front shows a dark pattern on white back. ground, Others have the top printed white and the skit printed in a dark colour, The idea is to have the same pattern printed in different tones.

Turn-about prints make up into de-Aightful pinafore frocks. One example has a skirt and half-bodice of blue printed with pale pink, while the blouse Is in pink printed with blue. A high neck is gathered up with dark blue ribbon velvet which also edges. the short sleeves, Drop a little castor all in the groove of the wheel and then turn the wheel very fast for a while, and you will find that the looseness of your sewing machine band has been uleely adjusted.

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