The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-19
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and Dainty Addition to
Women's Costume

Gated workmanship. These are usually
decorated by insets of lace or insertion
applied in fancy design, and the
edges finished either with buttonholed
scallop or lace edging to match the
inserting.
Some girls fancy the idea of en-
broldered white slips over cuffs to
protect the dress sleeve when using
the chaflng dish, as it insures no in
trusion of unruly ruffles or other trims
ming of the sleeves, aside from look
ing very professional and clean. Al
ways employ as much white as pos
sible when arranging edibles. There
is an undeniable attractiveness about
foods and materials that are prepared
and served on white tables, even
though it be only white oilcloth-cov-
cred kitchen table. 1t gives an air oE
perfect freshness and excellent quality
to food, even though it may be OF in-
ferior grade.
In the drawings are shown. several
types of tea aprons and kitchens
aprons and an art students apron.
The tea aprons have been described
at more or less length, and while
they 2. pear quite simple of construc-
ton they require considerable care in
cutting, especially where the bib and
skirt are cut IN one, as in illustra-
lions 1 and 2. These should be cut
with the entire on the exact bias,
otherwise, having no darts or seams.
over the hips, they will not at smooth
1y about the waist.
ALI insetS or embroiderings should
be entirely finished before the cloth
is cut if one would Lave a perfectly
Fat surface without tiny pulling or un-
even lines.
OF practical and pretty embroidery
No. is an excellent example, the little
pockets affording sufficient room for
materials, and the chatelaine assuring
the ready use Of scissors, emery and
needles, which sometimes have a mys-
ferrous way Of disappearing.
Some exceedingly pretty kitchen
aprons may be accomplished by COM
bining two colors; that is, using, per-
haps, blue chambray and applying q
hem of white, or blue, pink or green
linen with applied bands of white
with perhaps shallow-shaped yoke and
with bit of hand embroidery on it.
But this, in way, is aside from the
subject To return to aprons, and
kitchen aprons in particular, the white
oilcloth ones already mentioned should
of course be cut perfectly plain in one
piece ON lines similar to butchers
apron or modified princess cut on
the bias, all in one piece. Their uti1-
ity being quite obvious, they require
no laundering, are always spotlessly
white. being easily cleaned after each
wearing by merely passing a damp
cloth over the surface. A pair OF
long over-cuffs,. reaching well over
the elbows. is also quite indispens-
able.
For the art student, more especially
those working in pastels or oil, or
other equally soiling mediums, the
apron should be of generous proper
lions, covering the entire dress from
neck to hem. Such one is shown
in Fig 4. It is constructed of any
favorite color in either linen, duck
or pongee silk. but should of course
be of a material that will stand hard
wear and much laundering. Pongee,
while a little more expensive in the
long run, is by far the most desir-
able, as it conforms to the lines OF 1
the figure nicely, when stiff wash fab |
RIGS would appear very clumsy over al
heavy dress. 1t can also be laundered !
readily at home.