Iron County register., 1886-04-22
HOME DRESS-MAKING,
Useful Suggestions For Ladies' With Eco
nomical Inclinations.

Useful Suggestions For Ladies' With Eco
nomical Inclinations.
The home dress-maker who wishes to
furbish up the front of a partly-worn
corsage is advised that soft vests or
plastrons are easily put on, and are
| more stylish than smooth vests A sim
gle breadth of surah silk is all that is
| needed, 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
instead of surah. The breadth is shirred
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 dis
tance on the left side, where it disap-
| pears under a 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 a short square or else pointed to stop
dt tfle Top Ol lue uitTIS, Wneft SlOln-
acher may meet it, or the fronts of the
dress may be laced below or simply but
toned.
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 a point there, or
else held by a 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 4 puff of the same, coming out like
an under-sleeve, which is gathered on a
wristband of ribbon.
A yard of beaded passementerie can
be made to trim a plain waist and
sleeves prettily by putting a row down
each front from neck to darts, Begin
ming an inch beyond the button-holes.
The lower end is finished with 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 trim
ming, yard and half will be needed,
and galloon with straight edges should
be chosen in preference to the vine pat
terms of passementerie. Beaded fringe
two inches wide may be cut in short
strips and placed crosswise each side of
the buttons of corsage. If the lower
edge of one row laps over the top of that
below it, this makes a very effective
trimming.
A black surah or gros grain basque
can be tastefully trimmed with three
nir thcn Of of tod of It-hi iob i1
gathered up as full plastrOn, square or
in V shape and there will be enough
left for gathered scarf on each sleeve
as n cuff.
To shorten in appearance waists that
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
entirely. Such a 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
just below the inside belt.
Among the simple styles for misses
and young ladies' wool dresses, that of
the Kilt skirt and apron drapery re-
mains not only popular, but also fash
ionable, especially for what are called
tailor suits. The skirts are excellent for
mohair, Cheviot, delaine, camel hair,
beige, cashmere or cloths of light quail
ity, such as form useful spring suits and
summer travelling dresses. The kilt
plaits may be three or four inches wide.
or else only one inch, according to
fancy. The basque is the simplest pos
tilion shape, and may have rows of mo-
hair braid put on the collar and sleeves.
and also Stimulating a vest in cross
rows or else in lengthwise parallel
rows with a single curled row down
each side. The most fashionable tai
lors use this simple design for the light
cloth dresses of elegant young women
in society, and similar dresses are made
at home by mothers for their daughters
who are still schoolgirls. Hence dress
es made this way last year need not be
altered in the least. Dark navy blue
or brown canvas, mohair or cashmere
dresses made in this simple manner
may have high collar and narrow cuffs
of velvet of the same shade, but to add
any more elaborate trimming or to use
intricate drapery detracts from the
good style of such dresses, and makes
them what women of taste call ''fussy-
looking" for want of better word.
The great fault with ordinary dress
makers at present is that of overtrim-
ming; they should take useful hints
from the tailor suits made in severely
plain STYLES, yet with perfect grace,
every seam being in its proper place,
outlining the figure tastefully, and
thus completing dresses that remain in
and do not need to be altered each sea-