Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-04-19
A NEW FAD In SUITS.
BY MARY ANxABLE PAXTON.

A girl can be very fashionable indeed
this summer at very small expense, If she
knows how to avail herself OF one partic-
ulsr fad, and adopt it to her figure and
color scheme-that is, OF course, il she
can serr. To know how to sew reasonably
we'll, to have a moderate amount OF in
formation about cutting and fitting, and
to understand how to select colors that
suit the complexion, is to give a girl
chance to be economical, stylish and at
tractive.
And the girl who is any sort of an
artistic amateur dressmaker can be ultra
fashionable in her all-one-color linen out
fits this season. complete linen outfit
does not just mean jacket and skirt and
belt, but includes wash hat, spats and
shoes and parasol.
First decide upon your color. II you are
one of those lucky girls who can wear
three or four colors, curb your desire this
season to show how equally well you look
in rose and daffodil and mauve, and decide
upon, say dafodil, for your especial sum
mer color, with it you can wear white,
cream, tan, brown, maize, pongee and
black.
You may have your linen SUIT of tan
with dRffodil trimmings, or in two jon
quill tones or just plain daffodil. Your
linen may be fine handkerchief variety
of butchers linen or linen crash-all are
fashionable.
The skirt is short, plating about the
hips, or the old bell-cut, as You wish. The
plated skirt is less likely to sag and is
hard to do up.
The upper part may be a shirt waist,
plain and simple, an Elton to wear over
lingerie waists or say redingote or plain
close-fitting knee tailor coat.
II the costume is daffodn linen, there is
no trimming but machine stitching; il
tan, the machine stitch bands are daffodil
yellow linen belt is worn and fastened
with gold harness buckle. The hat is
milk-maid style all linen, so made that
the crown will unbotton from the brim
and both can be easily Numbered. A
wreath of white and green taffeta ribbon
ionquils are pinned about the crown.
You can make the wreath as well as the
frame.
For the parasol, take any old frame, cut
linen cores from the old pieces, machine
stitch together and at the edge, catch to the
ribs, hide the top fastening with a bow OF
taffeta and you will be very much in the
latest vogue.
The spats are a shade more difficult to
do than the parasol, but quite possible.
You must first shrink the linen, but you
should do that for the entire costume.
Take pair of old CATERS, trifie loose,
cut the linen exactly the same, for it will
not give, line with linen and machine
stitch thoroughly.
Colored linen spats are perhaps the most
conspicuous novelty of this summers
dressing, and are worth some hard work.
They contribute so generously to smart
effect in simple costume.
The fear most girls have of these deli
cately tinted suits is in connection with
laundry work. Who has not seen rose
color come back from that bewitehed
laundry variegated water melon; violet,
gone into yellowgray; a blue, water
white, week. hard work and much artis-
tic expression lost forever.
A very wise girl will superintend the
doing up of her tinted suits herself II
she is clever enough to make them, she is
wise enough to wish them long life.
And it is not bit of an undertaking to
launder pale-colored garments il one does
away with boiling and rubbing and
starching.
An easy way to set the color is, cover the
linen for an hour with cold borax water.
half cup of borax to half a tub of water,
the first washing must be allowed to just
come to a boil, then soften with borax
and make foaming with melted CASTLE
soap. Dip the garments up and down in
the water until drenched, rub the soiled
places lightly. The soaking will have so
loosened the soil that few minutes in the
hot water will leave any material quite
clean
The rinsing should be first in warm
borax water to further guard the color,
then in clear cold water.
Never hang in the sun to dry; a windy,
shady spot is best, and be sure to bring in
before quite dry. Clap before the fire and
| iron on the wrong side without having
found it necessary to sprinkle.
This simple old-fashioned method of
freshening a linen suit will insure its
color and original soft linen texture,
which is lost with starch, and without,
for that matter, il it is sprinkled before
| ironing.
1t is most economical to get the wide
linens, especially if the new circular
skirt --model is to be used, and every
weight and weave of linen can be found
this spring IN every shade, dark and light,