Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-16
LADIES COLUMN.
A Few Suggestions Which May
Prove Profitable for the
Amateur.
rhe Dress Of the Milkmald-0ne
for the Sweet Girl
Graduate.
noe Adorhnaents-shnde 'ahinst the
Envfous sun - Gathered
Thoughts.
THE NOME ID aFssMAKEn.

The kind ofllces Oh benefactor are sell
tom appreciated by those toward whom
those efforts arc directed, and when
those efforts tend In the direction OF In
creasing labor tor the wife and mother
one may well stand hesitating upon the
brink ere making the final plunge. How.
ever, women will be fashionable, and Il
Ia whispered across the waters that now
home dressmaking Is fashionable, and a
few hints TO amateurs may not come
amiss. In regard to cutting the lining,
there are several points TO be noted, but
perhaps the most important Is that the
pattern should be laid on 30 that the
neck and bottom should be on the SEW
edge, as there IL much less probability OF
Its stretching In that way AS the long
waisted style Is now In vogue, the darts
are cut high and near together at the
waist line, the side forms being cut mar
row. The neck is usually finished with
high military collar, which has buckram
tnterlining. Shoulder seams are OF
medium length, the sleeve set In easily
into q large arm-hole, there being no full
ness in II, except such as Is obtained by
holding the sleeve next you in basting,
the inner seam set straight down the
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easily over the hip, avoiding any tied
back appearance, tapes and steels being
still used TO hold the foundation skirt In
place, the lower skirt and back draperles
being made 10 look full. ..
The New York costumers say that
there is no color 80 popular as dark blue,
but as white costumes are worn they
should certainly be fAyorites In Southern
latitudes, and their appropriateness
TO all compilations and ages furnishes an
additional eason for their adoption. Al
ways fresh and bright, by little changes
OF trimming an almost infinite variety OF
effects may be produced.
There Is now beautiful silk wrap fab
ric, which combines ligntness and econ
omy, by saving laundering.
still for this climate, where dust and |
heat prevail, wash goods seem most de- |
sirable and are certainly admissible on |
the street, whatever may be the mode In |
more favored localities. All wool white |
goods make charming evening dresses, as
the dampness does not render them limp. |
For evening toilets at summer resorts |
are very lovely wool gauzes and Grape |
woods Of exquisite qualities, TO be made
up Of these fabrics alone or combined |
with silk, satin, faille franchise, the tinted |
nouuoing laces which are this season
pronounced perfect ''dreams" oil beauty
and art pearl passementeries, appliques,
and rare silk embrolderies, both white
and pale.hued, in shades of mauve, clel
blue, cream, roseheart and canary yellow.
The intermediate wool dress for the sum
mer is OF white choddah, beige bison
cloth, nuns gray, cancels hair, or else
dainty cream-white limousine, with this
fabric for basque and drapery, while
deep fall OF Moresque or Egyptian lace
wells the front and sides OF the lower
skirt. Both Felix and Redfern use silk
cords, silver, gold and mohair braids for
finishing stylish tailor-mado gowns OF
summer wool, cream-whlte pilot cloth
being iavorlte material.