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BoDIcEs or ODDS AND ENDS.
How 10 Compose Fetching Little
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BODICES or ODDS AND ENDS.
How 10 Compose Fetching Little
waists out OF Lcft-Oycr scraps.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-"Do you know"
said Mrs. Van Knickerbocker solomnly as
lull fell upon tho conversation about the
luncheon "t think We are on the eve
Of great revolution in dress. Women
ccming home from Paris tell me the strang
cs; tales about the corset Of the future that
the Partisan eIegantos are already wearing.
The leading modis'os advocate them and
have seen some gowns lately worn by
women Of unqucstioned authority in the mat
to- Of clothes, that have their upper widths
gathered across the back and hips with all
the iulness the goods viii allow
II am sorry to hear that" twittered
Mgisie from her end Of the table. where
she sat picking daintly all the bits OF
mushroom from her patte Of chicken. "The
present fashions suit me entirely and to
nv eyes the modern skirt does more to make
stout women appear slender, to transform
angular women into gracious sylphS and to
give height to the short and dignity to the
tall Added to all these virtues, there never
was time like the present for utilizing
odds and trlnes OF fur and embroidery in
the makeup OF really attractive and useful
little waists.
"You would all, | am sure, open your
eyes" she continued "if eou learned
for how little and from what mere scraps
some of my most fetching waists are made.
Last week. for example | was billed to read
paper before our every other Wednesday
morning with Shakespeare. It's club, you
know and we are profoundly studying the
tragedies this winter. Now it is easy
enough find to write a paper on the politi-
cal condition Of Rome in the day of Brutus,
but il is quite another matter to stand read
ing for twenty minutes before crowd OF
perfectly frocked and awfully critical
wcnen in some old costume you've already
worn a dozen times this season. One must
wear something that will at once hold the
attention OF the audience, and command their
respect
"Well, | bent my whole energies to the
evolution of a feature for wear, not only
when am hostess for the club, but when
obliged to look my best on days at home,
a. the theater and even at the opera when
a decollete frock is not necessary The foun-
dation of my achievement is any one of my
simple skirts ranging from white silk
one to a pretty cloth thing in the popular
shade of turquoise blue My waist is made
of cloth cream white and fitted in to the
figure not by darts, but the new French
fashion of drawing down and stitching hat
In tiny tuCks COnverging to the belt, all the
fullness about the waist line at back and
frCnt.
Back from the shoulders" Maise chat
tered on. fall double edged cape revers
faced with red silk and edged with gilt
cord and these revers expose the collar and
shoulders covered with a piece of Persian
patterned embroidery in which gilt and red
are the prevailing motifs. A four-in- hand
OF red velvet runs about the base OF the col
lar, knots under the chin and its long ends
pass down to the waist line under series
OF FIVE little white cloth straps that fasten
over the bust with GLIB buttons. Now, for
the remarkable Responsiveness of this
charming waist l really deserve no credit
for my dressmaker did it all out of bits left
over from other gowns, and / must confess
my paper on Rome went off beautifully"
DR.. Murray's smart Gown.
"Maise, you are genius sighed MIS-
Van Knickcrbocker with sincerity on
strong minded women so often are, ana
will say it for the advanced woman that
some of them can dress with amazing Taste
Now there is DR.. Grace Pcckham Murray
In spite Of the fact that she has an Office
full Of patients every day, when her after
noon at home was TO be celebrated last
week she stood up in the social eXactlons OF
life in a charming cream Liberty satin gown
that was just cause for envy. Her skirt
was simple had a mere relieving fold about
the bottom and the waist, laid in the most
curious and interesting series of pleats
showed beneath each pleat merely suG-
gested line of turquoise blue
Charming" murmured the hostess
"Simplicity is with many women the order
OF the day now and in spite of every tempta-
ton to stray after other idols, dear old tur-
quoise blue keeps it's strong hold. |, too,
have been to tea recently, and the two
smartly got up women who received to-
gethcr both were the most faultessly de-
mure little costume possible. One adopted
a cloth skirt in gray, with not so much as
a decorative tuck on It, and the back was
laid in two broad boxpleats, stitched down
on their folded edges for twenty-five or
thirty inches beyond the waistband. a full,
soft blouse of gray Liberty satin was util-
ized with this, the fiat neckband, elbow
sleeve cuffs and belt made of white satin
ribbon, overaid with cream -colored lace and
edged with mere pipings OF brown fur. A
perfect Quaker gown and not jewel in eyi-
dencc
Pale Green Popiin.
THE other young matron by the door dis
played her lissom figure to exquisite ad-
vantage in pale green popin skirt, having
top of heavy ecru lace through the mesh
OF which the green showed well. One half
of the waist was made OF lace over green
poplin while the yoke and sleeves wele OF