Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-17

| A dress or jacket properly fitted and
made by a good dreSsmaker, though this
costs more than one made by novice, will
look and hang well to the end, while the
other will not.
1t is indispensable in buying dresses to
remember what your wardrobe already
contains, as two dresses can easily be COM
bined into one nowadays, if the colors are
happily chosen. which is great economy.
Ladies who study economy will never
adopt the outre in anything, for outre
fashions never last long.
| Women with taste are content with few
things-and those good-in lies of a guam
tity of cheap finery.
\ Never buy bonnet that viii not go
with all your dresses and jackets likely to
be required while the bonnet lasts, unless
| you can afford to possess bonnet to match
each suit.
Extravaganza in dress means not only
to spend too much money upon it, but also
the patronizing of too foolish fashions de-
vised simply to waste material.
A dark, thin stuff is infinitely cheaper
than delicate, pale material, though its
| original cost be double.
A purposeless chaos of millinery is not
beautiful from an artistic point of view,
and probably mischieyous from sanitary
| one.
True skill in making up materials con-
sists not only in fitting the dress, but in
giving to every morsel of stuff due value.
Take, in the first place, that a woman
| to be we'll dressed and look her best must
concentrate her efforts upon tints both
few and good. 1t is so true. There is not
one woman in a hundred, no, nor in five
hundred, that can afford to try expert
ments with her good looks. The pink
that is becoming is hideously unbecoming
when combined with blue The blue that
makes her yellow hair so bonny and
bright makes her looks like trump with.
every deepening shade. The green that
looks so fresh and spring-like on her white
gown gives her twenty added years when
she uses it by itself. The plain white
collar that shows off the slim beauty of
her white throat, grown to dude collar,
seems to choke her and to make her ears
look big and her pretty face to look
timber. jawed. While, as for hats, the
becomingness thereof decreases in inverse
proportion as the width of brim increases.
1t is a splendid rule and worth remember
ing.
So, too, is this: A dress or jacket prop
erly made and properly fitted by good
dressmaker, though this costs more than
one made by novice, will look and hang
we'll to the end, while the other will not.
Were you never surprised on compliment
ing friend on "her pretty new gown" by
being shown some darn or patch or new
half sleeve or something of that sort
which bellies the fact of the newness
thereof, although the pretty part was
undeniable? l have noted the fact for
many years and never knew the rule to
fail. Did you ever know it to fail that
such a gown was made by someone who
thoroughly understood the business of
dressmaking? Moreover, personal expe-
rience has developed the same faith.
There never hung in the closet at home
three homemade gowns that, even in their
pristine freshness, could dare to look in
the face three-year-old suit that was in
its day the handsomest suit in town
What one, especially feminine one,
has proved for herself, one is apt to be-
lieve most firmly. NELLIE B. WARD.