The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-13

Fancy Fronts of silk or Musltn That
Clever Woman Can Make.

EaAcy Fronts of silk or Ausltn That
Clever Woman Can Make.
When women wear jackets as persist
emily as our women do. they should know
. lot about vests to make the changes
frequent and clever.
To go always with a conventional cot
ton or silk shirt waist under Jacket.
argues a lack of inventive genius. A
woman who can wear many fancy fronts
With different colorea girdles and stocks,
is a woman who will be the envy of her
friends, they will think she has per-
feet knack for clever dressing on little
And that is high praise.
| know q woman who can do this thing.
and do it well. She has a steel blue suit
of face cloth, made with short jacket.
Here are some of her variations. A front
OF fine Swiss. daintily tucked with lace
insertion, the whole made over piece
of blue silk. A girdle of blue taffetas
and e,ok collar of the same with
narrow iinen collar above.
One of dark blue mousseline on which
she had appiQued cut lace. 10 initiate
Honiton; this over green taffeta, with
green girdle and ribbons to wind about
the throat under a narrow ruching of
white.
A front OF pale yellow muslin. finely
tucked and divided by bands OF butter
cup lace, made up over pale blue or
white. and blue or white girdle, and col
lar to match.
You see how many changes this makes?
To say nothing of the opportunities it
gives a woman TO match the flowers in
her hat. The woman who mas a black or
a gray suit, can wear almost any color
she wishes in these fronts. She should
certainly have a geranium-coiored one.
Make II of red muslin with an applique
OF yellow lace. and make the g:rdle Of
black satin. very narrow with a double
knot iii front; If she wears gerdnium-
colored tie, have it OF silk ribbon or
tafTe,a.
With these fronts she can suit the day
or the occasion. A woman should al
ways be watchful of the tone OF the at
mosphere when putting on her clothes.
IL the day Is rainy and chilly. wear some
thing red or warm-t toned; IL clear and hot,
wear blue and white. or equally light
shades; If cloudy and slltry, never wear
toneleSs. hot dresses.
A man said he fell in love with his wife
because. on a chilly. rainy day. at big
hotel. she had come down In q brilliant
scarlet wooden gown, with bunch OF
green leaves at her waist. The other wo-
men were shivering in lawns. lie said a
woman who had that much sympathy
would make splendid wife. And she has.
The slight differences IN ties and Cir
dies are as worthy OF consideration as the
fronts.
The bought ties-except thu Ascot-are
rarely worn Even ribbon is bit too cum
bersome TO wrap around the collar like a
stock so taffeta Is considered the correct
thing. Get a small piece on the bias II
possible, and put a narrow hem on each
side.
Put it about the collar as if you were
going TO tie a bow in the back; but, in
stead, cross IL, bring II around to the front
and slip In four-in- hand, letting the ends
come nearly to the waist.
No scarfpins are worn, except with the
Ascots. But these latter ties are not
adapted to a shirt waist without a Jacket.
They need to fit in the V formed by the
revers OF the coat. Otherwise they are
not stylish.
/ forgot to say that IL rs easy 10 fasten
fronts over any cotton shirt waist.