The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-19

big, but the effect is far from quiet as
you might imagine. So I have made it
very simply indeed and after quaint
.old-faSh1Oned model. The skirt is per-
fectly plain and full all around with a
deep hem at the bottom. The bodice
is just simple gathered model blous-
ing in front, cut off the shoulders fin
iShed perfectly plainly about the top
and with big short puff sleeves, ending
just above the elbow. The girdle is a
broad pink satin ribbon just the color
of the background of my frock twisted
twice around my waist to give broad
girdle effect and fastened with short
knotted ends in the back"
There are wards and yards of shad-
ed rose pink illusion in my frock," said
a brown-haired girl, and it will be
trimmed with oId-fashioned moss rose
buds I can't exactly describe i'll left
it all to Nadame-but there are at least
four skirts-it'S SO awfully thin and
airy, you krow-and they have founce
after founce. all raw edged. There is
a triple garland of ropes of the satin
rose buds Gra2ed on the skirt and fin
ishfng the decolletage. and the sleeves
are just wisps of tulle and loops of the
buds dropping down from the Shout
der
'I made my own frock," said the girl
who always does. land I bought plain
white dotted muslin. 1t has shirred
skirt, four or five rows at the top MAX
ing a tightly fitting yoke, and hanging
long and plain and very full and end
ing with a wide hem. The waist is low,
of course. and has a band of shirring
all around the top. The sleeves are
two big puffs ending a t the elbows with
a row of stirring and with row be-
tween the puffs. My sash is an old
fashioned one of the very material of
my gown. Hasn't it been years since
you saw one? Well, [ always did dote
upon them, so I thought, why not?
And so the thing was done How is it
made? Why it's just a straight broad
piece of the dotted muslin hemmed
narrowly on the sides and with a three
inch hem at the ends. and it fastens
with one of those small bunchy rosette
bows, more than a million short loops,
you know, all pulled out, and with the
two long ends hanging almost to the
tied and made ready to pin on. re-
member when I was a child and wore
them They were tied every time 1 put
them on, and some one was always
screaming at me 7 3t to InusS my SASH
My gown is white, too" said another
girl. White swiss embroidered with
pale blue ring dot It's an imported
pattern that was given to me two or
three years ago and I've only Just
scraped together money enough to pay
for the trimming because wanted it
made up with the finest, sheerest Swiss
embroidery. Well that's what I got, in
darling little forget-me-nOt pattern.
The skirt is made with three bands of
this embroidery-they'r about two and
a half inches wide-with wide puffs
around the top, and from below the last
band (they fit very tightly, by the way.)
the skirt falls in plain full gathers.
There are three bands of the embroidery
insertion above the hem. The waist has
a band of the embroidery finishing the
decolletage and another inserted a. little
way below, corresponding to the skirt
trimming, you know. The band around
the neck also forms the tops of the
sleeves and they are short, full puffs
the elbows. Pale blue velvet forget
me-nots are massed on each shoulder
and caught in the knots of my long
pale blue liberty silk sash, and I will
wear them in my hair. too, of course
I am really prouder of my underskirt
though than I am of all the rest of the
rig. I couldn't have silk so I bought
fine batiste and trimmed it with two
wide graduated ruff1es made of that
darling colored embroidery, white with
pattern Of pale blue forget-me-nots.