The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-11-22
A KID BODICE
For Wearing With Tailor-M Made Costumes
OF Light Weight Material.

For Wearing With Tailor Made Costumes
OF Light Weight Material.
The possibilities of tailor-made cos
tunes for the coming season are many
and interesting. The newest dresses
are made of exceedingly light weight
material and owe their exquisite effects
to style of finish that requires pa
thence, practice and good deal of nat
ural gift in the line of the artistic The
new woolens are so thin that the
dresses are almost summer weights. OF
course, this thinness must be in some
way counteracted when cold weather
comes on. To this end cOstumers are pre-
pairing jackets of chamois leather and
kid
1t is not generally understood that
a kid bodice can be made to answer
every purpose of the chamois and at
really less cost, if one takes everything
into consideration. The large skins,
of course, are not real kid but are, by
many, called so. They are probably
goat or lamb skins dressed down to
the proper thickness. A skin with
fine grain should be selected and
fashion as is done when kid gloves are
to be cut, taking care that all of the
pulling should be in the direction OF
the grain of the leather. Lay on tho
pattern, cut out the sections and sew
up the seams. When this is done. take
a large sized, sharp tracing wheel and
run it over the leather, making lines
not over half an inch apart. TO do this,
place the leather on a soft board or
cardboard or with thickness of fan
mel or felt under it, A cloth-covered
library table will answer if one takes
care not to cut through. The object of
this is to make the perforations
deemed necessary by hygienists When
this is done the seams may be opened
and stitched down and the waist can
be finished in the usual fashion. Some
ladies are wearing waists of this sort
with bone castings and whalebones and
dispense with corset, the waist, if
carefully fitted, answering every pur-
pose. This is good thing for the stout
women, provided they wear plenty of
wraps when they go out.
Some of the chamois have long
sleeves and high necks, others have
square necks and sleeves to the elbows,
others no sleeves at all. With an ar
rangement of this sort one may be as
warm with a thin material as with a
thick one, and the weight is so much
less that this innovation will be hailed
everywhere with delight.
The earliest autumn jackets do not
differ very materially from those worn
last season. Some of the new ones
have strap seams sections like pocket
lids in the back seams below the waist
line, and these are finished with but
tons. There are pocket lids, fancy cuffs,
some trit1ing changes in the shapes of
collars and lapels, but beyond these
very little alteration. One jacket has
lapels extending far out over the
sleeves turned-dOwn collar with long
points and buttonholes in these points.
Buttons are set on the lapels and are
closed when the collar is turned down.
If the collar is to be raised around the
neck, the points are unbuttoned and
the collar turned up higher Another
jacket has a double cape extending
over the tops of the sleeves. The capes
end in points, one tapping over the
other in surplice fashion, the jacket
having double breasted effect.
handsome jacket for driving has
three very full rutfle capes one above
another. The body is double-breasted
and closes with moderate-sized buttons,
and has leg-o-mutton sleeves.
There are some very handsome long
wraps, double-breasteda and quite plain.
Sleeves are enormously full at the tops,
and there may be either turned-over
collar or one that stands out from the
throat.-N. Y. Ledger.