The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-13
Dame Fashion

ways off. 1t is difficult to realize
that the time for the first display of
autumn styles is so close at hand. For
women, who like to dress we'll but do
not command unlimited means this is
the most aggravating period of the
year. Imagine such woman who
equipped herself at the beginning of
the summer season with one or two
handsome suits, which represent prac-
tically all she could afford to spend
for the summer season. The dresses
were handsome and did excellent SER
vice. but, unfortunately clothes do not
last for ever. They wear out, or, at
least, do not look as fresh and clean
as fastidious woman would like her
clothes to appear. What can she do?
She cannot afford to buy another sum-
mer suit; she does not like to appear
shabby and, to wear her new fall Co.'S
tune. even if the latter should be all
ready, is out of the question: it is far
too warm for that.
There is a problem, which many wo-
men Of the better classes have to face.
In some cases the problem is compara-
lively easy to solve. If the dress is
of stock material, which may be pur-
chased and matched i'm nearly every
drygoods store, it is quite simple, to
get enough new material and a few
new trimmings to restore the dress to
nearly it's original freshness. The
palmer the dress the easier it is to re-
model it, the more satisfactory is the
result of rejuvenating it by changing
the trimming and rearranging the
other ornaments.
With elaborate dresses, made of
and trimmed with colors that require
special selection the task becomes al
greatest ingenuity on the part of the
owner or dressmaker who attempts to
! make such dresses once more present.
able. A skillful dressmaker. however,
will usually find some way
There are countless little tricks and
| articles, which an ingenious dress
maker has at her command, with which
she can do wonders. Here a handsome
ruching of some suitable material or a
strip of solid lace will hide q some
what sOiled hem: there rearrange-
ment of the lines of trimming changes
the general effect and wonderfully
freshens the appearance of the skirt or
bodice Perhaps the sleeves may be
taken cut. their pattern changed a
tritie and with a bit of new lace or
some gauZe or other material a practi-
cally new sleeve is built.
But, there is another method of eking
out the flag end of the season without
great expense, even should the rejuve-
| mating attempts on the passe summer
dresses prove unsatisfactory. This
other method will particularly COM
| mend itself to the great number of wo-
| men who possess neither the skill nor
renovating a more or less delicate sum-
| mer suit with their own hands and
n
| to a skillful dressmaker.
This other method takes into ac-
! count. that majority of women de-
vote the end of the summer to travel
! ling, touring and sightseeing and that
| social functions, which require "dres-
sing up" are extremely rare at this time
| of the year. Taking this for granted
| the problem becomes quite simple.
| Nothing easier than to split up a suit
and wear the skirt, which, as a rule
can be easily fixed up enough to look
we'll, with a blouse Of some thin white
| material. Nearly every skirt can be
worn with a white waist and nearly
| every woman who has the ambition to
| dress we'll according to her means, has
| two or three such blouses among her
| things. For travelling, sight seeing and
| even roughing it out in the country,
nothing is more comfortable than one
of those blouses. For trips through the
| woods or cross country, a plain and
! substantial linen skirt will be more SER
viceable, but for travelling on the rail-
road or steamer and for sightseeing
| trips on city pavements the handsome
summer skirt and white blouse make
| an excellent combination.
| Experts, who have made a study of
| the coming fashions for fall wear in
Paris, report, that the close fitting and
| long -skirted or basqued coats nave
| been revived and will be extensively
worn during the coming fall and prob
| ably winter seasons. There is no doubt
but it is impossible to tell. how much
| favor this revival will find horo II ic