Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-18

whether IL could be considered anything but
remarkably inexpensive. 1t was at first
tightly fitted and aesthetic garment with
pulled sleeves. Later crush collar was
added. Then the pulled sleeves were caught
just above the elbow with black Jet buckles
and the waist itself covered with all-over
black silk embroidery. The black and hello
trope are quite stunning. This year l in
Quired quite curiously after the health OF
that particular bodice. for IL did seem to
me that the sleeves were too eXtraordina-
rily large for any semblance to the present
mode. even upon the plea of the artistic.
was calmly informed that the sleeves had
been taken out and made very small and
stitched from shoulder to elbow, while n
black satin stock replaced the crush laven-
der collar. The bodice part did not need
any refurbishing, the black silk all-over
embroidery was drawn plainly over its trim
lines, simply blousing bit in front.
What the Remnants Made.
While L was asking about my old and
valued friend, the bodice. its owner pro-
duced a love of a bonnet, which she as
sured me was made of the surplus material
in the huge puffed sleeves. She herself
had draped it over q frame and added to it
for ornament a glittering black butterfly
of the teacup variety, popular /
believe the bonnet story, for it matched the
waist exactly, and we all know there was
enough put into sleeve a few seasons ago
to make half bodice. and certainly tiny
ptHfltI, nut IL next week my economical
and enterprising friend produces a pair Of
slippers neatly covered with heliotrope
miroir velvet, and tries to persuade me she
evolved their covering from those wells of
supply, her puffed sleeves, l shall draw the
line. No doubt it is fad just now to wear
slippers to match a costume. / have no
tced it with pain on several occasions, but
one canrot construct whole wardrobe out
of the remains of even an enormous pair of
balloon sleeves of the worlds fair peri2L.
An Old and New Blend.
The illustrations show two gowns which
are a judicious commingling of old and
new. The cloth and silk on the left are Of
gray, combined with a rose pink silk. which
has in it white threads. The gray crepon
is new, but was bought at a sale during the
late summer. The rose-colored silk is all
that remains Of very gay dancing frock.
The thread of white in It lights up the gray
and harmoniZes with the white bertha Of
embroidery over the shoulders. The India
silk to the right is fortunately OF French
shade of blue, instead of the inevitable
navy blue and white. 1t was new more
years ago than its owner would now care
to count-the last time little trains were
worn with narrow skirts-certainly before
the worlds fair 1t has lain aside for
years, and now by cutting off the top, mar
rowing the sleeves and inserting a lace
panel over white in the skirt, which was
too narrow for even this year, the removal
ton was complete. Black velvet bows
across the front or the waist give nnlSh-
ing touch. The all-oVer lace embroidery
for the yoke and panel was not SO eXpen-
sive one might think, for the lace was
eighteen inches and not much over a dollar
a yard, and little over a yard used, as
the panel was narrow. OF course, there
was the narrow lace. which outlined the
yoke and panel, and the silk to line them
both.
Nothing is more satisfactory or gives one
a more VirtuouSly frugal feeling than a
made-over frock which is a success. But
homemade froCks which are frumpy are
better not. Better by far to have tailor
made frock to wear out of doors and a
times than to appear in frocks which loudly
proclaim that they are two homogeneous
materials inharmoniously thrust together
and botched into the bargain.
Yet the simplest effects in house dresses