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Janette Davis rescues last year's dress by topping skirt with yoke, and using fabric from remodeled neckline to make skirt drapery.
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THE TOPMOST question in every woman's life these days is, "How can I make last year's clothes wearable for this year's styles?" and like everyone else, Janette Davis, the singer on the Arthur Godfrey show over CBS, has been trying to find the answer.
Bewildered by the necessity for transforming short straight-skirted garments into the lower-hemline, midriff fullness fashions now current, Janette sensibly took her problem to the Traphagen School of Fashion where a suit and dress were restyled for her. The suit, a soft blue tweed with padded shoulders and a too short skirt, emerged as a smart one-piece frock with flaring front pockets. The crepe dress is now apron-fronted.
To remodel a suit of your own in this same way, first remove lining and unnecessary trimming from the jacket. If shoulders are too heavily padded, take in shoulder seams and fit over newer, smaller pads. Seam the jacket up the front, then open left underarm seam for placket. Remove skirt belt and zipper, open up darts and let out the hem, steaming the creases. Attach the skirt to the top of the jacket as sketched to form two deep side front pockets, after either hemming the top or facing it with crepe. Cut a narrow belt and a high turnover collar from material cut away from the lower edge of the original jacket and wear a scarf of a contrasting color.
To remodel a two-piece dress with neckline drapery, remove and split the fold from the bodice and line it with satin, either black or of a contrasting color, to form the bows and ends at the back. Drop the skirt on a false yoke to make it longer. Tuck up the front of the blouse to make an apron drape and add a double fold of satin to meet the bow at the back.
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Suit renovation is more involved. It becomes smart one-piece dress by attaching skirt to shortened jacket and seaming the front opening.
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