Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06

under the front plat and removable for
laundering. It may be plainly heInstitched,
lace trimmed, hand embroidered. bordered
by tiny eolored hens, but whatever its
scheme It must be fine sheer, dainty, hand
made, or It loses its essential charm.
Thousands of frills more or less coarse
are offered in the shops, and some OF these
are excellent in design. but nothing can
offset fineness OF material and hand work,
and the girl who cannot afford to buy that
sort of thing will do we'll TO buy dainty
materials and do the work herself, a task
easy enough for any one who can roll a
hem and sew on lace, though, Of course,
the hand embroidered frill is a different
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ButtonhOling is a useful accomplishment
now, when so many good blouse details
are secured through button-holed scallops,
and the art is not a difficult one to &C
quire, though unless the work Is really
done we'll 1t is a delusion and a snare.
Sometimes excellent button-holed scallop
effects can be secured by using the strip
insertions or edgings with such edges and
so applying them that the edge seems to
be embroidered on the blouse material, but
this requires skilful planning.
A good tailor-made model with which
one blouse maker has had great success
is OF fine handkerchief linen tucked on the
shoulders, opening in front under an edge
cut in tiny scallops and embroidered. The
collar has a scalloped and embroidered
edge, so have the cuffs. so has the plated
frill, which is adjustable.
A good model into which the buttonholed
scallop is introduced is illustrated here.
The blouse is finely tucked from a tucked
shoulder yoke set in with narrow lines of
real Irish insertion. A plain front panel is
finished in large embroidered scallops
down each edge. These scallops are laid
over a rather broad band of real baby
Irish insertion, which runs down each side
Of the blouse front and a crochet button is
set in the center Of each scalIop.
Thu collar has a scalloped piece Of the
material turned down upon a band Of lace
and the cuffs are made in the same way.
Given the b~uttonholing. anyone could make
the blouse-any good seamstress, that is
and yet the model is excessively good
looking.
Another blouse also has a shoulder yoke
and the lace which borders this yoke turns
at the throat line and runs down each
side OF the blouse front. the middle front
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side fronts are finely tucked from the
yoke and the part next the line OF lace
insertion is formed OF a narrow embroidery
edge, finished by tiny scallops, which lie
over the edge of the lace. The shoulder
yoke or epaulette, too, is formed of this
fine embroidery band, which has both
edges scslloped and looks like embroidery
upon the blouse material. Lines Of tiny
designs embroidered In the collar run YER
tically On some chic blouses between
groups OF fine tucks and the color is re-
peated in the edge Of the frlll collars and
cuffs.
or the fine white blouses with tiny col
ored hens We ave often spoken, and the
blouses Of striped and figured batiste with
white frills bordered narrowly with the
color predominating in the blouse are de-
serving Of notice. We saw the other day
a remarkably good looking model Of the
tucked tailor style with plated frlll made
in a silky looking cotton which may have
been batlste or null
The design was a Persian stripe, in which
soft yellows and blues predominated, alter
mating with a narrow stripe OF White and
a white frill had a bordering band OF the
Persian set on with narrow Irish lace. The
collar and cuffs matched the frllI and there
was a tiny black cravat.
Fine cotton crepe. plain or embroidered,
ana fine cotton etamine. plain or en-
broidered, preferably plain, are made up
In both the simple and the elaborate styles.
One etamine blouse that has found ready
sale Is simply tucked in the tailor made