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FABRIC TIP
Make Your Own Skin-Tone Interfacing
You can dye 100-percent cotton or silk fabric using Dylon cold-water dye to cover shoulder pads or interface facings for any white garment. Both café au lait or cocoa brown shades work better than any ecru, tan, or tea dye. They are dark and yet have a softness that fades into the background when the garment is worn.
The dyes are permanent and easy to use. It's easy to dye a yard or two at a time and then use the fabric just for facings or covering the pads. It's also good to use dyed fabric to interface areas where a zipper is applied, or where fabrics are overlapped such as plackets or pockets.
Even if you use a commercial interfacing, put the dyed interfacing between the wrong side of the fashion fabric and the commercial interfacing, baste the two together, and use them as one piece. The results are well worth the time taken: You won't have facings, shoulder pads, or any other underlayers showing on the finished garment. You'll only see the garment, not the underpinnings.
White pocket lining (above) shows through light-colored fabric; skin-toned lining (below)makes the underlayer disappear.
-- Teresa Hering
Adapted from Tips department, Threads magazine, February/March 2004 (#111), p. 12; top photo: Peter Sakas; bottom photo: Sloan Howard.
© 2004 The Taunton Press, Inc.
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