The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-02-08
Economy in Dress.

lilies "who toll not and who need only
Wish. III order to have, leave the burden
of planning as we'll as execution to their
dressmaker; it is the woman who must
maintain a decent appearance on small
allowance, zand by, taste and ingenuity
make one dollar do the work of five, who
gives her whole mind to the subject She
It is who studies the shif1rs and plaitings
of her neighbor's costume from Worth
oversize edge of her prayer-book, while
apparently absorbed in her prayers, and
lies awake in the small hours contriving
how to make over her old silk, so that it
shall pass muster among the stylish new
toffetsFof her Weather friends.
Fortunately taste and ingenuity can do
a great deal, but even they must have
some material Wherewith to work. Tho
woman, who dresses, not handsomely,
that IS impossible but well on a small al
slowanee, must be a genius in her way.
sslaeymHst make her own dresses, WITH at
IYfost, the occasional aid Of dressmaker
AT ewo dollars a day; must do her own
vembroideries, trim her own bonnets, have
Fan artist $ eye for color, and French
.wonan's lznack at picturesque combina-
lions, in short. she must be able to make
kthe most Of all she has. however little it
may be- .4 ~
IN the. first place every purchase, no
matter how triIling, must be made with
reference to future as to the present use.
Her best dress for this winter, for in
stance, must be such that it will make
over adyantageoustY next year for second
sbest, and the. year, after.d for afternoon
wear at home. Suspicious colorS, how
ever tempting, unless indeed they be
wonderfully becoming, must be avoided
If she would not be known by her dress.
3 Back and neutral shades are her safest
choice, and the material should be as
good as she can possibly afford F'The
{ destruction of the poor is his poverty
aad there is such a thing as being foo
poor to be economical, paradoxieal as the
seateb1ent mayseenl; that is, one may be
!. forced to. buy an inferior article for lack
ofthe. money necessary to purchase a
good one. Still it is far better to have
butone suit season and have that hand
some th9n to buy half dozen cheap suits
with the same money, unless. indeed, in
summer, when variety Of light and airy
toilets are to be preferred to one rich
q dress.
Real lace is an investment, and with
care viii last lifetime. Take real
SHSpanish fichu for example,; with little
- ingenuity it is a scarf, mantle for out
81, door wear, fichu for evening dress. or,
!, arranged over silk bonnet with spray
81 of flowers, an elegant evening bonnet.
Handsome lace never goes out of fash
lon, and when worn can always be rem
=, oyated. On the other hand, money spent
e. for cheap cotton limitations is worse than
sasthfown AWAIT spoils any toilet, for no
lady with any precautions to taste ever
wears cheap finery. A narrow linen
Ia collar is always in better taste than cotton
lace, while crepe lisse ruching, calling
for no great outlay al the moment, is
appropriate with the richest dress. Crepe
li5se, though, is expensive, because so
often requiring renewal, so that real lace,
va in spite of the first cost, is much more
r economical in the long run. It's good
plan to buy cheap Charletane ruches and
haste them inside the crepe lisse, low
enough down not to show. Thus placed
they protect she crepe lisse from crush
ing, as well as from becoming soiled by
contact with the skin. What has been
said about imitation costoa laces in no
wise applies to pretty handmade thread
aaces which have of late years become
the refuge OF those who have refined
tastes, but cannot afford to indulge tHem.
Ostrich feathers also may be counted as
an Investment, since they are always in
fashion, and when on hand reduce the
~ cost of a new bonnet considerably. So,
too, with handsome cut jet or fine pearl
buttons; costing more perhaps, at first,
they practically last forever and may
be used again aud again, while passa-
menterie and silk buttons seldom wear
as long as the dress for which they were
s0riginally bought. assss se
ws The question of gloves is u difficult
S enesfer Gle practical econoni5t in dress.
q 10 beEYelEgloved is absolutely necessary
to good appearance. and even with the
greatest care kid gloves soon grow shah
s. by. Cheap gloves are apt to prove 3
snare and delusion, and when these are
: used it is we'll to find some place zYhere
they keeps make wllichfis 20 he relied
4 upon, and buy always at that one place
8 3 Hisayolerer exnedient to take the LONG
q tops of gloves, the fingers of which are
s past wearing, and match them in two Of
s thfee-button gloves, which, being out O.
fashion. may be bought very cheap
4 and to which the tops may easily bt
semcu, ffc" JofH -Detu95 lltutcH uHueF
Nhraeelet Aghena the gloves are. worn
@ss In takingoff gloves they should never
be pulled by the ends of the fingers
Instead, turn the top of the glove dowr
ever the hand aud lake hold of thu
fingers through the kid By. this mean,
the fingers viii not be rubbed in taking
off. When purchasing a pair OF glove!
match the color in a fiye-cent spool o
fine sewing silk, and mend each tiny riE
as it appears-'.a stitch in tirie save:
nine here, as elsewhere IF the glove
tears the edges of the rent should b.
closely button-holed. A glove manu-
faeturer recently writes te. the Lon,
don Queen, aprepos of complaints tina
kid gloves do not wear so well~as for
nlerly, that: "The first cause in The
tearing Of gloves will be found in the
fact of~their being worn so very tight
A few years back 81 was the smalles
size made and we went from that size tc
s., the majority sold being II and u
aud then, be 1t remembered we SOLD