The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-06-30
THE HOME DREssMAKER.
Some Seas0nable suggestions Rec
garding the Latest In Costumes
for Various Occasions.

Tailored Gowns.-These have become
IN actual necessity for every season,
and include the severely plain and
Draid-trimmed suits as well. A June
bride should include in this line, when
she has $500 to spend, a braid-trimmed
gray cloth, a stitched plaid cheviot, and
china blue pique. She should also
have a white and a pink organdie, :
black taffeta silk skirt, two silk blouses.
1 black serge rainy-day suit and plenty
IF cotton shirt waists, also white
oique gown.
For one in mourning neat rainy-day
gown may be made with serge skirt
having Tapped seams, and tiy-front
'eefer jacket lined with black taffeta.
With it may be worn q short waist OF
affeta in lengthwise cordings with
took collar to correspond, and toque
IF black straw trimmed in taffeta and
Juills, and black veil. Everything
should be quiet, stylish, and yet thor
,ughly subdued in tone for deep
mourning. Do not wear Grape on
Amy day unless you use the rain-proof
English make.
this summer. A nice supply for the
young lady visiting through the sum-
ner would include a china blue jacket
suit and white dress of pique, one white
organdie, one pink figured organdie,
green or blue and white dimity. Pleq-
" of comfortable, cool shirt waists in
white lawn and pique and colored per-
,ale, Madras, bingham, cheviot and :
pique will complete this wardrobe.
Any of the wooden skirts may be worn
with the shirt waists, but if two new
ones are bought get Manufactured
linen crash and a black serge made
with tailor-like finish, very plain but
well cut, and evenly hung without any
dip at the back.
Girls Dresses.-There is no striking
change in girls frocks. They are still
made with the round waist, yoke effect
and revers, with tiny jacket fronts.
small sleeves, and slightly blouse eff
fects. The new bingham and pique
frocks are made with yokes or gimps
of white tucked nainsook or embrOi-
derry, but the wooden dresses have yokes
of taffeta, white or colored, made plain
Velvet and satin ribbon, braid and lace
insertion are all used as trimmings. In
materials, children wear just about
what their elders do-serges, cheviots,
cashmeres, poplins, challies, foulards,
taffetas, piques, ginghams, organdies.
dimities, lightweight flannels and.
fancy dress goods.
Colored pique dresses are in favor
this spring. A large heavy rib, express
iy for jacket suits, is as high as dol
lar a yard, but very pretty domestic
cents. A not too heavy weight should
be selected for gored skirt and blouse
waist with shirt sleeves. Buttonholes
for studs and link buttons should be
made in the plat and the cuffs. The
yoke may be made with either straight
OF diagonal tucks, or with Hamburg in
sertion alternating with tIcks. The
double-skirt effect will be noticed in
shaped founces, ruffles rounding up to
the belt, and long-pointed aprons or
peplums, but none of these will iron or
prove as serviceable as a fve-gored
skirt made with few tucks as bor-
der. The material should be washed
before cutting, to prevent it's shrinking
afterward.
Bridesmaids costumes should never
be of extremely expensive materials
unless the girls are all sufficiently
wealthy to endure the tax. A pretty
idea for an early spring wedding would.
be white organdie for the six brides
maids, with pink flowers, pink sashes
and collars, pink chiffon hats, and
white gloves and slippers. Trim the
gowns with ruches of the material
edged with narrow white ribbon, using :
lengthwise rows on the waist and
dimities, lightweight fannels and
sleeves, and several crosswise rows
above the knee founce of the skirt.
The flower girls should all be in pure
white; the maid of honor might be in
pale green organdie over white, with
white flowers, gloves, sash, collar and
hat. The brides dress of dainty organ
die should be trimmed with many rows
of lace inserting, with ribbon sash.
Her veil should be of tulle, and her
bouquet be all white. None of the
gowns suggested are expensive, as ex-
cellent double-width organdie may be
bought for 60 cents yard; better
quality at a dollar is 6s inches in width.
Emma NJ. Hooper, in Ladies' Home
Journal.
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