Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-04-06
HELPFUL NOTES.
A Number Of Hints Helpful to Home
Dressmakers.

Number Of Hints Helpful to Home
Dressmakers.
SILK Innings are always to he 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 10
longwaisted women: those made with
revers and fiaring collars will be mucn
worn this season.
Smooth-faced cloth of blue, black.
brown and invisible green viii ne
much used for street and visiting
gowns during the coming winter.
Women with sallow compilations do
not look we'll in cherry. but can wear
a deep red like cardinal or the yellow
ish red which is known as asbouse.
Atwood tafIeta is lightweight,
smoothly woven fOrty-inch goods suit
able for ladies' blouses and wrappers.
children's frocks. infants wear ana
dressing sacques. Ii is a dollar and
dollar and twenty-five cents a 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-nainsook
India linen. cambria, dimity and lawn.
Skirt bindings are on the same lines
and put on as usual: if you haste yours
carefully and sufficiently they viii not
wrinkle. velyeteen binding should
be left an eighth of an inch below the
edge of the petticoat, thus protecting
It in reality.
A long-waisted appearance may be
given by n slightly pointed front ana
round back with silk folds around the
lower edge; have a narrow vest GOV
cred with heavy lace. and finish Off the
skirt with two ruffles Of black silk SIM
ilar TO 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 10 the front
where they are tied ia Il short square
bow. These pieces are bias. hemmed
and with pointed ends.
Evening wraps should certainly be
made in the form of a cape for eonven-
fence sake. Plush is always pretty
warm aud 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 a granite-like weave; none
of these are recommended for coolness,
as the coolest black gown for best
wear outside of semi-transparent
goods. is foulard Where one dress
has TO answer for many occasions.
black is the best choice. and a silk
warp fabric will present the more
dressy appearance if made with a
white yoke covered with cream colored
guipure
Narrow dress skirts may have front
or side panels. as they must be four
yards in width: with a broche satin a
front panel of plain brown covered
with cream guipure lace would answer.
A vest of the lace and satin and a
slightly pointed waist, with the ribbon
sash folded around the lower edge. al
lowing the ends to fall from a buckle
at the back. The cloth skirt is TOO
short. YOU say. but for this get darker
cloth rather than silk. and use for a
founce headed with bias fold of the
same: use dark cloth for yoke and
belt. and stripe both with narrow vel
vet ribbon, and then give a touch OF
brightness nv adding n collar of cher
ry-colored veIvet
Made-over dresses were never easier
to manage for SO many materials are
allowed in one gown and almost aS
many colors. For Your light brown
cashmere dress and the skirt of a dark
er brown. and the yard OF brown vel
vet. buy about two yards of brown tar
feta silk and a scrap of red silk. and
you will have a pretty gown. Use the
odd cashmere skirt for shaped
founce to the knees, and the close
sleeves and round bodice. The rest OF
the skirt may be of the lighter brown.
Head the fiounce and finish the yoke Of
tucked red silk with two tiny frills OF
taffeta cut bias and fringed on the
lower edge: use the velvet for the col
lar and belt each with a lengthwise
bow of the taffeta at the back.
Velveteen bindings are made with a
slight stiffening run In the edge so as
to keep a heavy skirt distended, and
this is what your petticoat needs on
the edge. as well as a facing OF perca-
line to keep the silk from cutting out;
then keep up the fluffy appearance
with an accordion-plaited hounce to
the knees. which may be made at home
by laying knife or side plaits a third OF
an inch wide and pressing them on the
wrong side with a damp cloth between
the iron and the silk. or course the
founce will wear out while the remain
der OF the skirt remains perfectly
good. but II may be renewed at any
time. A silk founce on a gloria or al
paca skirt will outwear an all silk one
but IL will be much heavier In weight
Ladies' Home Journal.