Fashion Hints Aka Patchwork & Hats Issue Title - . (1942)

Fashion hints. Fashion item based on advice given by Anne Edwards, fashion editor of Woman magazine. Probably filmed at Pathe studios, London. A lady sorts through scraps of material and cuts them into squares, she sews the squares onto a piece of net to make a patchwork waistcoat which she models. M/S’s of patchwork gown. The lady then cuts the brim off her hat, she stitches long piece of net onto the back of the crown to make a new hat, then takes the brim, pleats and stitches it then adds some more netting. M/S as she models this hat, showing two serviceable hats can be made from one old one. Note: for search purposes - ’make do and mend’. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 ite