The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
The HOME DREssMAKER
Some k1EEestions as TO the Proper
Materials and styles for tae
Winter Season.

Women with sallow skins need warm
eolors, as cherry pink, dark red rich
brown, can and rose, all OF which are
very fashionable
The chief fall coIors are brown, red,
| bright national blue. cherry pink, tur-
Quoise and gray. Black is very stylish,
and black and white combinations are
always in good taste
Wedding costumes for December viii
te OF satin. MORE veioUrs, taEe-a. nous
seine, China crepe, silkwa-p wool
I goods and the light weight, all wool
white materials, as well as white silk
Large buttons 7 worn as ornaments
on dress waists, and the more quaint
the effect the better they aTe liked 10
| -as1en belts. etc. The Two old brooches
thai YOU have NAV be used in this man
ner as garnets are out Of style as pins
An inexpensive wrap for winter par
ties may be evolved from bright red la
| dies cloth and lined with white cloth
Of rot 50 good a quality: have a high
| collar lined with white, and over the
chest a large gilt cord frog or orna-
menc.
Dress skirts remain much as they
were last season in shape, c~lose-ftang
about the hips, of five cores, and four
Yards wide. The shaped hounce from
ten 10 fifteen inches deep, and even all
around, rather than deeper al the back,
remains in vogue.
Petrifed wood can hardly be called a
Jewel. though handles Of il for umbrel-
las are very handsome and sold al jew
elers'. The wood rakes 4 high polish,
and somewhat resembles amber II IL
usually capped and banded with gold.
Such al umbrella costs from So 10 $50.
six shirt waists viii be worr through
the winter, but Z stock tie like the waist
VIII prove more appropriate TO the sea-
son Than a collar Of linen and q string
lie. Wear the tiny inch-wide collar
with the stock. which Il bought al a
mems furnishing goods store viii cost
$50 complete.
Neat travelling suits for brides not
blessed with an abundance Of riches are
OF cloth, Venetian or broadcloih. with
:he jacket warmly in1erlined. With a
racket suit a six shirt waist lined with
percaline IS worn \ more expensive
cloth costume would he combined with
velvet and fur. and with il would be
worn q silk or cloth blouse if q jacket is
worl. OF q jacket blouse if a fur cape
Is donneG.
For q stout figure a black net waist
VIII apparently -educe your size, but
You must not use The rross Iucks; put
on lengIhwise strips Of BLACK Iace lnseT-
uon. and finish of The lower edge with
narrow folds Of black six like your
skirt; the latter should be Of five cores
with two tiny RIFLES or the edge. but
avoid a design which is much trimmed
Have the collar Of a band OF brilliant
lei and ieweleC passemeDTe7e. OF OF vel
vel OF IaEeTa of a bright color.
Dimensions Of 4 seyen-Cored skirt
are: For the front a width OF % inches
al the lower edge and eight al the top;
the first side gore IS sixteen and four,
and the second one seventeen and four
and a half inches: each back is nine
inches al the Top and 2S2a al the lower
edge. The waist measurement for his
skirt would be % inches, and the entire
width Of the skirt four yards. The
length Of an average skirt is 20 inches.
Ladies Home journal.