The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-28
} THE GIRL WITH
|. THE SHIRT WAIST.
No Matter Where You Go, You win
See Her This Winter.

"HE shirt waist, supposed to die
with the summer, has taken a
lease OF life SO energetic that 1t
greets you again In healthier
form and more vigorous than before.
The story that there would be no more
separate waists Is one that has been told
too often. 1t never comes true. and you
grow skeptical when you hear II. Wo-
man, emancipated from the traditions
which say that she must do as she IS
told. does as she pleases. and the shirt
waist 10 to her the garment OF comfort
Yes, and OF beauty and economy
The dealers and all the rest OF the good
folk. including our French cousins over
the water, say that the flannel shirt waist
will be the shirt waist of winter. 1t
comes in such fine grades. and in such
pretty coiors, that you cannot Ignore II.
Once bulky and cumbersome, heavy,
shapeless and far from smart. il has be-
come something admirable. You cannot
tell IL, in its fine grades, from cashmere;
in certain lights there are pieces OF fine
French flannel that look like satin.
with the advance In beauty and style
came the advance In price. A flannel
shirt waist now costs as much as a taf-
feta, and there are few cheap ones on
the market. A flannel shirt waist, with
tucks running up n down, and with
rows of gold buttons between the tucks.
brings its own price. and that Is not a low
one. One of these was In bronze green
flannel, with bands OF tan broadcloth APP
piled so as to run from neck to belt. Be-
tween the rows OF tan 'broadcioth were
small buttons, called mess buttons. The
cuffs were pointed ones of tan, trimmed
with small brass buttons. The collar con-
sisted of bronze flannel n tan broad
cloth, with brass buttons applied In mill
tary precision. around the neck.
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with tiny black velvet buttons running
diagonally across the waist. Bands of
black velvet ribbon ran ~diagonnily from
the left side Of the belt to the right Shout
der. parallel with the buttons. The
sleeves were trimmed In the same dag
onal manner, and there were pointed
cuffs OF flannel trimmed with bands of
black velvet.
The flame waist was brought forward
into public notice on the strength Of be-
ing a wash waist, but one who see 1t
this season WIFI recognise It as such.
Trimmed deliberately. decorated with vel
vets and silks. made gay with brass but
tons and strips Of gold belting. 10 Is far
from being the simple little waist which
you saw a season 3 a . flannel waist
Then a ffeur-de-lis made Q decoration
and The waist had no other.
The popular colors In flannel arc green
and bronze. though you see them In every
shade, from the pastel tones to the deep
ones. And curiously elegant they look,
with their gloss and their trimmings.
Many of these waists are buttoned
down the back, the front being trimmei
with ~strappings of a contrasting cloth.
Take a green waist, with the front
trimmed with straps of gold braid put
on diagonaily from belt to shoulder.
Brass buttons cheer the progress OF the
braid from beginning to finish. Such a
waist is fastened down the hack so that
its front be not marred, and In closed un-
der a strapplng OF gold braid 10 match
the trimming upon the front.
The back. in it's closing properties.
the so-cailed invisible fastening. too
often the closing IL but an opening with
cruel interstices between the buttons.
The least movement OF the shoulders
causes the gap to widen cruelty. and the
whole effect OF the waist Is spoiled. The
only really safe method Is n double one.
Let the waist first be buttoned down the
back at very short intervals. Let the
buttons be very small and perfectly fiat.
Then. over this, let there be a hand of
the cloth which covers the buttons and
hooks fat all the way down. Finally,
let the gold strap over the plat IL you
attempt any other method disaster will
await you.
The touch OF gold IL upon all Of the
waists. They are finished with a band
Of gold braid. or there are gold buttons
upon them. in the finest waists there IL