1916 #35 House Slippers – Souliers d’Appartement These shoes are made out of silk of medium thickness. One can also employ taffeta or use pieces of ribbon. Fig.1. – Form the sole; cut from cardboard fairly thick. Fig.2. – Place the sole on a piece of silk and cut while leaving an edge of silk around which you will make an overcasting stitch such as indicated by the needle. Fig.3. – Draw then on this thread, the edge of silk is gathered and comes to imprison the sole. With the thread which remains, make some zigzag stitches to maintain the whole in place. Fig.4. – Cut a piece of silk similar to sketch #4, and make around this piece a hem as small as possible. Fig.5. – Put flat this piece of fabric, the right side facing you; place the sole on top and sew it to the fabric with buttonhole stitch. Look closely at the needle which does this work. Fig.6. – Take the shoe in hand, to form on the front four or five folds – they are indicated in figure 5 by the small gray fans. Sew at the edge of the shoe, with an overcasting stitch. Form in the same way three folds at the back. At this moment, test the shoe on Bleuette, and if the circumference appears too wide, make another fold either at the back, or in the front. If, on the contrary, the opening of the shoe is too narrow, one unpicks a fold. You will trim the shoes either with a small flat bow, or with three small rosettes made of very narrow ribbon. To make a rosette of ribbon, one gathers one of the edges of the ribbon; one pulls the thread and the rosette is formed on its own; one then sews it on the shoe. Translation copyright 2011 Deirdre Gawne. Not for sale. www.dressingbleuette.com