The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-21
CHARMING
AND CHEAP
Can Be Made a Most Chic
and Dainty Addition to
Women's Costume

Gated workmanship. These are usually
decorated by insets Of lace or insertion
applied in a fancy design, and The
edges finished either with buttonholed
scallop or lace edging to match the
inserting.
Some girls fancy the idea Of en-
broidered white slips over cuffs to
protect the dress sleeve when using
the chafng dish, as it insures no in
trusion Of unrnly rufHes or other TRIM
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 OF
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 kitchen
aprons and an art students apron
The tea aprons have been described
at more or less length, and while
they appear quite simple OF cons rue
tion they require considerable care in
cutting, especially where the bib and
skirt are cut in one as in illustra
items / and 2. These should be cut
with the centre on the exact bias,
otherwise, having no darts or seams
over the hips, they will not At smooth
ly about the waist.
All insets o. embroidcrings should
be entirely finished before the cloth
is cut If ono would have . perfectly
fiat surface without any pulling or I'M
even lines.
OF practical and pretty embroidery
No. 3 is an excellent example, the little
| pockets affordiag sufficient room fer
materials. and the chatelaine assuring
the ready use Of scissors. emery and
needles, which sometimes have a mys'
| teron5 way Of disappearing
Some exceedingly pretty kitchen
aprons may be accomplished by com
blning two col0rs; that is, using, per-
hapJ, blue chambray and applying
hem Of white. cr blaa, PINK or green
| linen with apalied bands OF white,
with rcraaps shallow-ahapc yoke and
with bit Of hand embroidery on II.
] But this, in a way, is aside from thu
! subject To return to aprons. and
kitchen aprons in pGrticu o. the whito
tollcloth ones already mentioned should
Of course b. cut perfectly plain in ono
piece On lines s'mi ar to q bu cher's
! Cpron or q modified princess cut on
tho h.Ga, all in ola piece, Their Gt.l-
i'y being quito obgiocs, thcy require
no llunloyias, arc always soo,iessly
white, bang easily cl.c1c1 after each
velrlng by merely pcislnG a damp
cloth oYcr ttc 5lr,a7s A pair OF
long oycr-cuffJ. reach,1r woll over
the elbows, Is alSo chi pens
able -
For the crt student. NOR clally
those working in pa5tcls or oil, o.
other cQ.ally soiias maGiuls, the
apron should b. O. generous proper
tions covering tAe entire drels from
neck 10 hem Such ons IS shown
in Fig. 4. It Ia constructed Of any
favoritc color in either linen. duck
or Do1gee silk, but should of course
be Of q material that will stand hard
wear and much numbering Pongee
while little m-ro expensive in the
lorg run. IS By far the most desir-
able, as i conforms to the lines OF
the figure nicciy, when siG wash fab
rics would appear very clumsy over a
heavy dress It can also be launderec
readily at homo.