Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-24

of cashmere and trimmed with bands of
ribbon of darker shade. The waist is
shirred at the neck to form round yoke,
back and front alike below which ruffie
of the material edged with two rows of the
ribbon is attached. Short pulled sleeves
over the plain long ones. A wide sash of
MORE ribbon ties at the back.
Plaids are likely to be worn, and are
tailor for street wear. Let no one
make the mistake of trimming elabor-
atelY plaid gown. A suitable fashion
is to have the skirt severely plain across
the front and sides, the fullness being re-
served for the back where it should hang
IN straight folds. The bodice to be plain
and tight-fitting and forming coat tails
in the back, these to be adorned with
buttons the same as those on tho front of
the bodice. The plain tight sleeve Is
high on the shoulder and the straight
collar strictly la militaire. There is,
however, no objection TO kilt plaits in a
plaid gown; these must of necessity hang
with great exactness and have no
stiff effect. A tasteful costume can be
made of brown and white plaid. Make
the BASQUE pointed back and front, arch
ing il over the hips in graceful curves.
The front laps to the left forming q
point nearly at the center of the armsize
then buttons closely to the end of the
long point in the middle of the bodice.
The sleeves and collar are the same as
those previously described. In making
over cashmere dresses use silk for the
large sleeves and velvet for cuffs or
other trimming. Amateur dressmakers
should bear in mind that it is only the
gigot, lego mutton sleeve, that should
be made OF different material. If a full
sleeve is preferred it may be made with
the fullness of the material extending to
the elbow and the lower half coat
sleeve of velvet. New bodices
still preserve the guimpe idea.
The body portion Is gathered
to form an erect ruffie, and the yoke is
of velvet or surah pIeated, each pleat
featherstitched. The fastening of a
bodice continues to be the chief mystery.
This lie usually concealed b. Tapped
fullness in front or al ong the shoulder
and side seams. Some young ladies
wear basques buttoning In the back. but
this is by no means generally adopted.
At the risk of repeating, it is urged that
home dressmakers do not stint cloth IN
skirts that are PLAIN. II in plaid mater
ial the skirt is cut on the bias yard and
q half more material will be required
than is necessary in skirt cut straight.
A few more days and school bells will
call in loiterers to con other lessons than
those learned in vacation time. For the
mothers to whom it saysn new frocks for
the misses, the following is clipped from
the The Ladies' Home journal:
For Large aud Small Girls.
What can be prettier for blonde girl
of fifteen years than large sleeves,
pointed yoke, collar aud left side of the
skirt of blue plaid cut on the bias, with
the full body portion OF plain blue shirred
on to form an erect ruffis, fitted in at
the waist with several tiny plaits at the
center of the wRist-line aud opened be-
low to show the panel? The dress opens
in the back and affords an excellent
model to make over by. For q school
dress have round skirt hung almost
plaiu in front. gathered thickly in the
back and in q large triple-plait on each
side. Have the hem on the outside aud
piped ct the top with silk braid, doubled.