The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-04-06
IN FASHIONS GLASS
PreAfy Things That Are Reelected
from the Maze of Feminine
Finery.

In spite of the assertion that separate
waists are going out of fashion, there
are just US many on sale in the stores
and figured in the journalsdes toilettes.
The truth is, they are too pretty, styl-
ish, economical and useful to be re-
signed. Many of them are very elab-
crate, being intended for dressy wear,
and they are quite different from the
shirt and blouse waists meant for wear
with the coat and shirt costume.
7, A smart waist that may be attempted
/ by good home dressmaker is made of
icolored satin, some light color showing
the decoration best. It's much trimmed
with machine stitching in black silk.
1t has wide double box plat down the
front, and graduated plat of the same
character comes from each shoulder,
narrowing to the belt. The space be-
tween the plaits is entirely filled with
give the effect of points. The cuffs aud
collar are covered with machine stitch
ing. The upper part of the sleeve re-
peats the points seen between the
plaits; the under part is plain The
belt is narrow, is like the waist, and
is not stitched; it is slightly pointed
in front.
A use for lace in the piece is found in
the lace waists that are SO popular just
| now, both in black and white. 1t is put
on over fitted silk lining, and beau
| tiful mode requires a V-shaped piece
at the throat, and the lace draped in up
ward turning plaits, and gathered UNI
der an enormous velvet bow or chiffon
rosette on the left, tapping over upon
the right.
Another pretty waist has front laid
| in a plain box plat down the middle,
with three broad, backward turning
plaits on each side, tapering to the belt.
On these plaits may be applied lace fig
ures or embroidery, in two rows, one
| high across the bust, the other little
below it. There is deep yoke covered
with guipure lace, which comes well out
over the shoulders, and which in the
model is edged with fur.
Blouse waists are still being made up
| numerously. The latest fancy dis
| penses with the yoke in the back, and
runs three groups of tucks from collar
to belt. The fronts are tucked in clus-
ters. Another mode, pretty in the opera
| flannel, etc., SO much worn, is to tuck
! back and fronts alike in the narrowest
of tucks-so narrow as to give the eff
feet of cording-about seven-eighths of
an inch apart. The same effect is seen
on the sleeves.
Some of the new waists are tucked
horizontally, in clusters of four, the
tucks being as above. described. The
sleeves are tucked also, and fashion de-
crees that when the arm is dropped the
groups of tucks in the sleeves shall
seem to continue those on the waist.
| All the new modes show a much
| heightened shoulder seam. Every thing
is being done to give long line on the
shoulders, thus making them broader
and the waist apparently smaller. 1t is
| predicted that an era of small waists is
upon us, and that the woman who has
no perceptible hips or stomach is to
have her innings. That means the ban
| ishment of lot of aids to the toilet.
Skirts promise to become more
voluminous, though no less sheath-like
round the hips, as the year advances.
Sleeves are growing smaller very fast.
| They are comfortably snug already,
| and fit the arm's-eye with very, very lit
tlefullness. They remain absurdly long,
| half-covering the hand. and thus neces-
sarily flare at the wrist or are cut off,
and faring cuffs added, after the mode
that has prevailed for several seasons.
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