The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-01
Gowns for a Girl.

0O"Ao LUZ d alI1s
My Dear Miss Lee: I wish to con.
suit you in regard to my summer dress
es. I am IA years old, have blue eyes
and light hair. I am five feet three
inches tall, with waist measure Of
twentyfour. Ny bust is thirty-two
and 1 have very large hips. Would you
suggest white linen sailor suitf As
I have a muddy complexion would I
look well in light blue chambrayf If
SO, please suggest way to make it. I
want something simple and smart-look-
ing. Thanking you in advance for
your advice. -Gwendolin Rochester.
California.
A white sailor, suit would be very
becoming to you if made full and long
about the shoulders, but without blous.
mess at the waist line. Have a eircu-
lar skirt fitting the hips smoothly, then
beginning with nothing at the line Of
the hips, form box pleats making them
deep as you descend. Basic quite to
the hem, then stitch them on both
edges to knee depth, press well and
remove the basting threads. This is
one of the best models Of the circular
cause, if as often happens, the fulness
seems to come in the wrong place, or
the skirt insists upon sagging or hang
ing in wings, than which nothing looks
worse in skirt not touching the
ground. This may be entirely overcome
when arranging the pleats. Besides the
lack of fulness over the hips there is
trim fit as it were, to this skirt down
to the knee, when graceful fulness
| springs, while the true circular is apt
to hang foppy all around. About six
pleats will be necessary, making them
all the same distance apart. The yoke
sailor blouse in Peter Thompson style
is the latest, the lower edge of yoke
cut into tabs holding lower portion
slightly tucked, just enough to allow Of
sufficient fullness over the bust. Have
sailor collar, cuffs and belt of navy blue
galatea, trimmed or not with rows Of
white India linen tape, quite narrow.
The shield will be white showing a
navy anchor, and the emblem on the
arm worked the same color.
You can wear light blue chambray
if you will either wear a wide white
collar or cut out your waist in a square
for wear with chemisettes. White, you
know, has clearing effect upon the
skin. The princesse styles should be
come You gathered or pleated at tho
waist line, the fullness springing just
above the line Of the hips, and so drap.
ing them, as it were, the bottom I'm.
trimmed save for self folds or tucks.
Then you should have rather a large
yoke or else full bertha, so as to
bring your bust into proportion with
the rest Of the body. Your sleeves, too,
may be full at the top, and elbow or full
length as preferred, both being equally
becoming. This model would be for
soft wooden materials as albatross, veil
ing or challie.
Make your chambray with a skirt
laid in inverted box pleats over the
hips, the fullness springing from there,
the waist similarly pleated to yoke
, depth. Lay on small yoke square,
but rounded at lower edge front, trim
ming it with ruffle of embroidery, the
yoke to be of all-over embroidery. Add
? suspenders of the material edged with
the embroidery, coming down as an
3 outline to the small yoke, and wear a
, white embroidered belt. Puff sleeves
, will be pretty brought into bands OF
l the goods and ruffles of embroidery.