Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-23
REMopELINo pREssEa.
Hints for I.adIes VAo Desire to HEake Use
 Of Laat YeAr's Dresses.

Mants for IAdIes Who Desire to Make Use
 of Last Years Dresses.
 Almost any dress made within the last two or three years can be made over in the simple styles now in vogue with straight skirts and trimmed bodices o For instance, the plaited skirts of woolen gowns, if faded. can be turned. and their voluminous breadth will furnish ample material for an En- glish skirt with plain front and sides and plaited back, and also for full sleeves. If this skirt is too short for the present elongated breadths, it can be heightened by adding a border of striped, plaid or spotted wool, or else bias fold of silk four inches wide, lined with crinoline, can be set below the edge, and simply stitched on-a fashion seen on many of the new En- glish gowns. Another plan is to trim the skirt with three or four rows of velvet ribbon of graduated widths the lowest row three inches wide, fall. ing Obelow the edge of the skirt and lengtheping it. Should the skirt be long enough, but trayed at the edges, bind- ing of thick watered ribbon three inches wide will freshen it, and give ''charac- ter" to the plain skirt The foundation skirt, after having the hustle and steels removed, should be faced with the ma terial of the dress, or with that added to lengthen it.
 The full skirt of a summer silk dress can be heightened by insertions of rib bons, or of white or black French lace, with either a hem or scalloped lace at | the foot, and may be slightly draped as a long over-skirt, with 8 trimming of gathered lace or ribbon showing below it on the foundation skirt. A white muslin dress can have insertions of ! tucked muslin or of embroidery let in above it's hem, or else it can be length ened by border of embroidery at the foot The bunched-up back bread ths of | gingham or other cotton dresses made l two years ago are usually straight, and merely require to be out of at the top and gathered full to a belt The front | plaited breadths need not be altered; but if the apron drapery is very long, it | should be shortened, and simply draped from hip to hip.
 | The bodices of wool dresses can retain the fitted back by making the basque part more simple, in habit fashion with out postilion plaits, or by cutting it into four square-cornered tabs, or, if quite long, the Louis Quinze coat back may. be made. The front of the waist can | then have a blouse of plain, striped or checked silk set upon it to cover it,
 and the slight jacket fronts of wool can
 be made from pieces left from the full
 skirt The coat sleeves can be widened
 at top by inserting a pointed puff of the silk, or caps of draped folds of the ma
 terial can be added, or else entirely new sleeves can be made of the silk aR AI,r os,A klrN
 bodice is so worn that it must be aban- doned altogether, a pretty blouse of
 India silk or surah can be used with the
 remodeled skirt, and this skirt should be sewed permanently to Swiss belt, or a whaleboned corselet made of many
 small pieces left over from the skirt,
 we'll whaleboded, and laced at the top
 in three or five places in front and on
 sides.
 Other bodices faded or worn about the
 neck and shoulders can have the soiled
 parts removed, and a round yoke or
 one in V shape, or a succession of van dyke points can be set on of surah, of
 repped silk, or of velvet while for light materials ecru embroidery can be used
 instead. A square-cornered Spanish
 jacket, cut from any large pieces left
 from the skirt, will cover badly-ftted
 waist, or one worn out about the arm
 holes A corselet, or else pieces of em.
 broidery or silk or velvet sloped from } the under-arm seams to a point in the
 middle of the front, will also renew
 soiled waists. High collars can be cov-
 cred with two pieces of ribbon, each
 folded over from the top, or with a
 single wide ribbon, or else with ecru
 embroidered muslin, which is now used
 on silk and wool as we'll as on cotton
 gowns. A basque of last summer can
 be shortened to a slightly pointed
 bodice, and finished with ribbon folded along its edge and hooked behind under
 rosette.-Harper's Bazaar.