The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-18
FASHIONS FANCIES.



It cannot be too often impressed
npon the women or to-day that taste
full dress simply means the knowing
how 70 do It Ii is not a matter OF
cost. except as the possession OF money
enables one 10 order from the shops or
from expensive modistes. But the re-
suits In either case are usually far
from satisfactory. In the first instance
the styles are conventional, the work.
manship inferior; in the second, the
thing Is apt 20 be overdone; yet there
Is nothing TO represent the amount OF
money expended, Such individuals
have no conception of the satisfaction
TO be obtained from producing really
good thing at small cost; the pleasure
derived from hearing your friends say:
"Where did you ind that lovely bon
cost At least $685." when you know the
materials cost less than live. and your
own clever fingers put II together.
Or, you have made your first APP
pearance In new costume, and meet
= friend In warm and worn garments.
allow nice you looKr she remarks en-
viously. "Who IL your dressmakerl
i have been waiting four weeks for u
chance to have dress made, and
when 1t came home l could not wear
1t. Do tell me who made yonrsg"
Perhaps you will say jokingly, as q
friend of mine does; "Oh, a newly
imported madame. who does not wish
to have her name known. because she
works for nothing and feeds herself,
and she would have too many custom
ers."
Such a treasure Of ssMadame" re-
Gently made a tea. gown" Tea-gowns
are the rage now, and many young
women would like one who do not
have one because they think them out
of the question for any but rich wo-
men. But the owner of the tea gown
is not rich; her husband is a working
man, and she can only have pretty
things by making them herself. He
likes. however, above all things, to see
her in them, and is immensely proud
of the fact that, although she gets
herself up In all sorts of dainty ways
when he comes home In the evening,
her clothes really cost her less than
some of her neighbors, who Rockwell,
dowdy. This clever little wife came
of n bright, New England family. Her
mother had "faculty"--that tells the
whole story. She can embroder; she
can make pretty lace with which she
trims her underwear; but she does not
run much TO "store" trimmings; she
depends more upon color and contrast
of material. Her tea-gown is made Of
thin wool--what is called "challe,"
though it is really only light kind OF
old fashioned wood delane. The cost
was but 20 cents per yard, and 1t re-
quired ten yards of figured and three
Of plain for under sleeves and full
front. The pattern was delicate
pinkery brownery; all over design on
pink ground; the plain part pale
shrimp pink. The gown was cut in
the princesse form, with vatican
back, and the full front the entire
length OF the plain material. The fig
ured sleeves were long, open and
pointed; the plain sleeves underneath,
gathered full at the wrists; where the
fullness left "A tiny doubled ru1le This
Is the revival OF fashion of about
thirty years ago, and was adopted by
this lady, partly because it Is graceful,
partly because it covers ane gives size
10 her arms and increased breadth to
her shoulders, for she Is thin. The
cost Of her gown was just $3.50. and IL
took the leisure OF three days, that Is,
the time left from her homework.
"A cloth gown which she wears is SO
cleverly constructed that You cannot
tell whether IL Is an ulster or costume,
or both; and do not know that she
would want me TO tell exactly how
much IL cost. 1t is a dark smoke
shade of wool and has three little
capes, faced up with silk, and edged
with heavy silk cord to match. Her
straw hat
MATCHES TIE DRESS IN COLOR,
and is trimmed with striped and
shaded ribbon, the dark grey color
changing TO tawny orange. The
brim is faced with gathered surah silk
of the grey shade, and the feathers are
of the grey also. Observe how simply
the drapery Is Of this dress. and how
well II looks with the lines unbroken
by trimming. One OF her "fads" is
pretty bodices; and you may be sure
she catches any new idea and adopts
1t "quicker than lightning" That is
the way she gets the credit of being
an expensive and fashionable dresser,
when in reality she Is economical.
The latest Ia the way OF bodice Is
the "honey comb" or, as II Is known