The San Francisco call., 1909-02-21

required. fills in the centers of flowers with
pistiis of French knots gives the dainty little
Pompadour figures waxen hair OF floss silk.
or ties garlands and festoons with
dainty colored ribbon worked in silk.
Waistcoat embroidering seldom has been +
much in 1t is just now, ~
satin or Ottoman silk. worked by hand
floss silk. they providing favorite
ployment The simpler the design the better q
is the effect In many cases, while the mere
fact the dressmaker tailor prefers to make B
up the work according to measurements
lieves any one making one of these as gift
OF the trouble and expense of finishing the
waistcoat before presenting 1t.
In many of the newest schemes pat
termed materials are instead OF stamp
Ing plain a design, the outlines Of
the brocade stamping being then marked
out in silk or worked in satin stitch. Many
people besides. beginning to realize that
hand necessarily be n
tique and that 1t is possible by means Of
few lessons, solely with the aid OF mex
pensive book OF instructions. learn to evolve
exquisite iounces, motifs, and chus berthas
a reel two of thread With lace pillow
torchon. Honiton. and Buckingham point. which are
much in just now, represent few difculties
after the initial step has been taken.
N olden days women knitted and crocheted beaut-
full little purses themselves their
silks of various colors They gathered the silk up at
the ends and placed mother OF pearl silk gilt tassel
adornment then they sewed the long length
knitting up. leaving in the for the
money to be passed through, after which they strung
the whole through small rings that matched the
ornaments the ends and kept the coins in their
place from loss. Such bags called finger
and carried In the hands with the weighted
ends hanging downwards.
The finger purse is enormous edition of
fashioned one and is made of velvet of various
coors is embroidered with steel beads and
there rings and tassel ornaments this
charmingly pretty novelty The coors that most in
vogue are canary yellow gray lovely shades
of purple, green, and crimson
Coats and skirts of the heaviest and at the same
time said to be the fash
onable things predicted little later the
season. these costumes recently Of
black satin and the first impression for moment
smilitude the bore to wet seal The satin,
fitted everywhere to the figure. Of that soft shin
Ing aspect only obtainable by richness of texture
The of this costume quite simple. with
long rever which brought about graceful
diagonal line from the right shoulder to below the waist
left side The skirt absolutely unadorned,
saving line self-covered buttons running down
the left The length all around excessive the
hem probably resting good three inches the ground,
the left side where it caught in three
small folds shade above the hem to allow the we'll
groomed it's presence
These long, straight lines. clingng closely to
the figure the majority of women should be wary
about adopting literally. few whom
that of gathering the skirt in the kneesis almost
impossible.
For long our energies nave been
centraed making skirts flare at the feet that
the present order Of things bewilders those who
do much, and in that way accustom them
selves the often times radical changes
Draperies that caught in by buttons or bands OF
front panels skirts where the side draperies
drawn n attached edges by motifs of
sashes sashlike drapertes, which produce
pronounced drag " when the wearer moves. big RIB