COSTUME 



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COSTUME 



have a chance to select, our taste and judg- 

 ment will be worth something. 



The fashion sheets that are supplied with- 

 out cost by firms that have patterns to sell 

 provide the best material for study of .prevail- 

 ing styles and costumes, and colored papers are 

 as beautiful to work with as dress goods and 

 trimmings. It is most interesting to select a 

 costumed figure from a fashion sheet, and use 

 it as a basis for a design in color. Let us see 

 how a problem of this kind can be solved. 



An interesting figure, shown in black and 

 white, was selected from a fashion sheet. The 

 figure was carefully cut out, exactly .as one 

 would cut out a paper doll (Fig. 1). The cut- 

 out figure was then placed on a sheet of heavy 



Carbon 



Collar White Fbper 



Trimmings for Waist 

 Violet Paper 



Method of Tracing Trimmings Tunic Band Violet Fbper 



white paper, such as drawing paper or water 

 color paper. A tracing was made on the white 

 paper, with a soft, well-sharpened pencil, result- 

 ing in an outline as seen in Fig. 2. The head, 

 hands and feet were then cut from the original 

 figure, and these parts were pasted in their 

 places on the tracing. The tracing on white 

 paper then appeared as shown in Fig. 3. The 

 traced figure already begins to take on great 

 interest, for the young lady appears to be 

 dressed all in white. We might make a num- 

 ber of modifications on this white costume, if 

 we chose. We could add a girdle, collar, yoke, 

 or various trimmings of lace, embroidery or 

 ribbons, if we wished to carry out the design 

 in white. As our first intention was to design 

 a costume in color, however, we will proceed 

 to the use of colored papers. Let us select a 

 pale yellow,' or straw color, for the gown, with 

 trimmings of viojet, 



To obtain the shape of the dress, lay the 

 figure from which head, hands and feet were 

 cut (Fig. 1), over a sheet of pale yellow paper. 

 Trace around this shape, as shown in Fig. 4. 

 Cut out the traced shape, and paste it on the 





Hat Shape 

 Light Violet 

 Paper 





Fig. 7 Method of 

 Tracing Hat Shape 



jght Violet 

 Fbper 



Hat Rim 

 Violet Paper 



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Yellow Ftowe 

 Yellow 



Violet 

 Light Violet 



White 

 Rale Yellow 



I 

 Violet 



white figure. The lady no longer appears 

 dressed in white; she has donned a gown of 

 pale yellow; but the yellow dress seems plain 

 and unadorned. Here, again, we see in fancy 

 a dozen different styles of trimming. On this 

 same yellow foundation and with a variety of 

 colored papers we could work out a variety of 

 interesting color schemes. When working with 

 papers, we can make several color combina- 

 tions and select 

 the scheme we 

 like best. If we Green 

 were working in Leaves 

 silks, chiffons and 

 fine linen, this 

 would not be 

 practical. You 

 see that paper 

 costumes have 

 certain, advan- 

 tages over actual 

 costumes. 



We select vio- 

 let for the trim- 

 mings of our pale 

 yellow dress. Lay 

 a sheet of violet 

 paper on your 

 working board. 

 On it place a 

 sheet of carbon 

 paper. Upon the 

 carbon paper A Design for a Costume 

 place the dress Expressed through Colored Rapefa 



cut from the fashion plate. (See Fig. 5.) 

 With a sharp pencil trace the shapes of 

 girdle, tunic band, cuff and other trimmings. 

 Cut out these various shapes, as shown in Fig. 

 6. Paste them neatly in their places on the 

 pale yellow dress. Note the transformation. 

 Our dainty lady is now correctly dressed, 



Violet 



ight Violet 



