News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-22
HOME DRESS.MAKING.
A Few Hints that Nav be Pat to Practica I
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From Harper's Bazaar. I


The home dress maker who wishes to
furbish up the front of partly worn
corsage is advised that soft vests or
plastrons are easily put on, and are more
stylish than smooth vests A single
breadth of surah silk is all that is need
ed, and this may be used alike for silk
or wool dresses, and may be of the same
color or in bright contrast Red or white
soft vests are seen on dresses of almost
any color and it may be added here that
the crinkled silk Japanese Grape is
chosen for very handsome vests in
stead of surah. The top breadth is shir-
red across the top, which is curved to
fit the neck of the dress in front, and is
sewed on three inches of the right side
of the dress neck, making the middle
reach the buttons, and Is then Tapped
the same distance on the left side,
where it disappears under q revers of
the dress goods or of velvet. This vest
may be long enough to extend to the
waist line, or even to drop below it in a
puff, or it may be short square or else
pointed to stop at the top of the darts,
where stomacher may meet it, or the
fronts of the dress may be laced below
or simply buttored.
A high velvet dog-collar also freshens
up dress, and when made with the vest
just described, should lap to the left
side, and be cut in point there, or else
held by small bow of ribbon.
A bright yellow or poppy red Japan
ese Grape vest is liked for black silk or
grenadine dresses, and with this may be
V spaces cut between the vest and
sleeves, and filled with a puff of the
Grape. The sleeves are then completed
with puff of the same s5ming out like
an under-sleeve, which is gathered on a
wristband of ribbon.
A yard of beaded passementerie can
be made to trim plain waist and sleeves
prettily by putting row down each
front from neck to darts, beginning an
inch beyond the button-holes The
lower end is finished with a point or
tassel. A row of the trimming is placed
on the upper side of the sleeve at the
wrist, and below this is gathered scarf
of the dress goods. If a dog collar is to
be covered with the beaded trimming,
yard and half will be needed, and
gallOon with straight edges should be
chosen in preference to the vine patterns
of passementerie. Beaded fringe two
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and placed crosswise each side of the
buttons of the corsage. If the lower
edge of one row laps over the top of that
below it, this makes very effective
trimming.
A black surah or gros grain BASQUE
can be tastefully trimmed with three
eighths of yard of jetted net, which is
gathered up as full plastron, square or
in V shape, and there will be enough
left for gathered scarf on each sleeve
as a cuff.
To shorten in appearance waists that
seem too long, dress-makers put a small
hair pad inside the back of the BASQUE,
Just below the waist line; this holds
the basque up, making it curve out
prettily, and the drapery conceals it en-
tiIely. Such pad should be about four
inches square, not tightly padded, but
soft, and should be tackled to the three
seams of the middle back forms lust be-
low the belt.
To hold up weighty skirts modistes
now sew a strip of silk, in which three
lengthwise button holes are worked,
across the back of the basque, TEACHING
it to the inside belt Three buttons to
meet these holes are then placed on the
belt o! the dress skirt.