The Florence tribune., 1898-12-10
THE HOME DRESsMAKER.
Items of Information Concerning the Goods and Garments for
 Winter.

Silk Things are always to be pre- ferred to cotton ones, if the expense is justified by the circumstances of the wearer.
 Furs promise to be very much worn when the winter really sets in. The fancy furs in gray and brown will be preferred.
 Belted coats are always becoming to long-waisted women; those made with reyers and faring collars will be much worn this season.
 Smooth-faced cloth of blue, black, brown and invisible green will be much used for street and visiting gowns dur ing the coming winter.
 Women with sallow complexions do not look well in cherry, but can wear deep red like cardinal or the yellowish red which is known as asbouse.
 All wool taffeta is light weight, smoothly woven 40-inch goods suitable for ladies blouses and wrappers, chil- dren's frocks, infants wear and dress ing sacques. It is a dollar and dollar and twenty-five cents 8 yard.
 An infants short clothes do not diff fer materially from the long ones first prepared except that the skirts are. shorter and the waists larger; use the same material for dresses-nainsool1, India linen, eambric. dimity and lawn
 Skirt bindings are on the same lines and put on as usual; if you haste yours carefully and sufficiently they will not wrinkle. A velvefeen binding should be left an eighth of an inch below the edge of the pettieoat. thus protecting it in reality.
 \ long-walsted appearance may be- given by . slightly pointed front and round back with silk folds around the lower edge; have a narrow vest covered with heavy lace, and finish of the skirt. with two ruffies of black silk similar in the belt folds.
 Stock collars are very pretty when made with band of the silk cut bias, and two pieces about sixteen by four inches fastened at the back and brought in narrow folds to the front, where they are tied in short, square bow. These pieces are bias, hemmed, and with pointed ends.
 A winter cloak for a young child for second best may be made of light blue eiderdown flannel, which washes we'll and costs about 30 cents yard. Make with yoke and cape, edging the latter with a scant frill of white lace. For a cold climate have a mob cap or flannel lined with the silk, edged with narrow lace, finished with rosette on top and strings of narrow ribbon. Evening wraps should certainly be made in the form of a cape for con- senience sake. Plush is always pretty, warm, and not expensive. as it is not so much used as it was some years ago. Remarkably neat long or half-long capes may be made of blue. green, gray or golden-brown plush lined with light shade of the same goods or with quilted silk or sateen. An interlining of soft crinoline keeps the outside goods in shape.
 Black dress goods suitable for any and all occasions are whipcord, serge, Eudora or granite-like weave; none l of these are recommended for coolness,- IS the coolest black gown for best wear, outside of semi-transparent goods, is foulard. When one dress has to an- swer for many occasions, black is the best choice. and a sillx-wrap fabric will present the more dressy appearance if made with white yoke covered with .ream-colored gimp.-Ladies' Home Journal.