Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
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sleeve. Pink the edges of the silk sleeve;
leave the edges of the net raw.
The following morning house costume l
am pleased to recommend. 1t is dlstln-
guished, beautiful, absolutely comfortable,
adapted to the time ofday, and easily made.
1t consists ofs very full blouse, gathered
round the neck and falling far over the
belt; a sleeveless jacket reaching to the
waist, and fitting the body-not corset
by means of the modern un1er-arm T back
seams onlv 1t is cut to meet, or nearly so,
the front edges being slightly shaped, and
is worn open or else is laced down the front,
through eyelets. The blouse must be OF
light, soft material, such as India silk, wool
crepe or albatross cloth, and the jacket OF
heavy material, of velvet, cloth or CORDUROY.
The last is now fashionable fabric >Aioa,
tross cloth is cheap, and has abeautliui
quality.
The jacket should be dark in color, and
the blouse considerably lighter. These may
be worn with any shirt, but shirt Ike tne
jacket completes an elegant costume
good combination would be blouse OF
grayish tan albatross, and jacket and shirt
blouse of Indian silk, of light broken green
dotted with sprigs of coral red, with neck
and sleeve bands of dark green velvet, the
jacket of black velvet, and any skirt oil
black.
For Beautiful Blouse.
There is verv heavy quality of surah
silk which would make beautiful blouses
1t is to soft that it will lie in folds without
creasing. 1t is worn to show two colors, an
ochre yellow on the surface and deep
flame red in the folds. Patterns in harmon1-
Gus colors are over it, indistinct, half
blurred, like an artists palette when the
knife has run together the colors but not
blended them. They are called shadow
silks.
To make the blouse have four yards, if
of India silk. Take one width for eaeh
front, and one width for the back. Shlrr
the fullness into the neck, and trim it to mt
woke lining. Gather at the bottom with
band. There is no lining except round the
shoulders and armholes. The sleeves re-
quire each one width of the silk. Fold the
sides together and trim them off to make
the sleeves little narrower toward the bot
! tom; shape the wide endto make it conform
to the armhole, letting the seam be on the
inside of the arm. Gather into the armhole,
and fit bottom into loose band, the width
of the neck band. The under-arm seams
slant outward little as they 60 down.
Among new French flannels for morning
wear are wide stripes in two or more colors,
ana PLAIN t1nt5 having SILK polka oots OF
contrasting tint. The last cost 81 q yard,
and are more suitable for baby blankets
than for adult wear. Striped flannels 1t is
not easy to make up so as to avoid monotony
and get any beauty of result 1t can best
be done by plating so as to vary the widths
Of the color spaces.
Putting Character Into Flannel
Thus, flannel striped with pink, black
and gray, which seems at first blush hope
less, may be made to assume some character,
as follows: Lay plaits so as to make wide
space of black down the middle of the back.
In the same way make a space of black
down each side of the front, letting these
black spaces run to the shoulders, not into
the neck. Between the black spaces of the
front lay plaits to make solid space of
pink Across the back, between the arm
holes, and also across the bust. stitch two or
more straps of black. Stitch another black
strap round the neck to support the plated
ruffle that matches and carries the broad
spaces of color upwards. Make the belt of
black Line the half-fowing sleeves and
the neck ruffie with plain gray TO match the
gray stripe. The same flannel might be
made also with the back simply gathered