Accent on accessories

By Dora Shackell

Subjects: accessories, Fashion, dressmaking, style, hats, 1950s, clothes, sewing

Description: The author, an experienced fashion writer and artist publishing in 1957, describes how to make your own handbags, umbrella covers, artificial flowers, jewellery; stoles and scarves, cardigans and boleros; skirts and blouses and many others. She adds advice on the use of accessories; on colour, balance and fabric; on mixing and matching; on suiting your type, whether you are teenager or grandmother. Patterns are included and are easy to follow, they presuppose in the reader an elementary knowledge of plain needlework and knitting, but anyone who has that should be able to make any article in the book without difficulty.