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Today’s Woman
Judy Burtner
Extension Afe»t,
Home Economies
Dress making has certain rules which, if followed, can help to create a dress to mirror the maker’s personality.
Margaret Groseclose, Virginia Tech’s Extension Specialist in clothing in the College of Home Economics, simplified the matter when she said, “Among the perplexing problems facing home seamstresses is that of deciding which fabric to use for which garment design. A girl may have a garment pattern with an eye-catching design, or some fabric she cannot wait to make up and wear, but she is not sure how to use the fabric for an end product in which she would be glad to be seen.”
Miss Groseclose suggests the seamstress should decide whether the fabric or the garment design is most important to the picture she seeks to present. If the fabric is to be the central point of interest, the dress design must be simple to avoid detracting from the fabric. Should the dress design to be the most important, then the fabric should not detract from it, but it should be interesting enough to enhance the dress.
Miss Groseclose said, “Home seamstresses know one of the keys to successful co-ordination of fabric and design is the surface design of the fabric. Various surface designs of fabrics should be examined to learn how best they can be used.”
Pil£ fabrics, such as velvet, velveteen and corduroy add dimension to a garment. Their
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