The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-23
kTTA'S NEW YORK FASHIONS
Can Save Many DOlIars-But Must Have Taste.

Every daughter of Eve would enjoy
 being able to get out and buy every blessed thing she wanted, regardless of cost and all made or to be made just as she desired, and in hats more than anything else But the home mill liner need not be one bit discouraged in this year of our Lord 1912, when
 the Autumn and Winter modes in mill linery give special opportunities for
 ming in place.
 Once millinery course was essen tial, to gain an intimate knowledge of reversed facings, wired robbon loops,
 This year apparently the nailliners
 have grown tired of these intricacies of smart hat is concerned. Delft
 fingers that can properly adjust wing at just the right angle, can use
 pins and have no knowledge of one.
 It is here where the chance Of the to the fore. Without doubt some of the modish hats ticketed $15.0o0 or $25.00 can be duplicated at home for a third of the price. The hat shape is the primary ex-
 pense factor, What little trimming is
 used this season hardly brings the cost
 the Paradise plume is used as adorn-
 ment. In that case, good night to
 any money saving proposition. Even
 three little measly stalks call for five dollars A reasonably decent bunch
 requires reasonably decent bunch of money as well. - is the modified Tyrolean which sets well down over the hair. The sole trimming is two wings pointing. back ward. They all do this, and even
 plumes look as though they were fall- ] ing off at the rear.1
 Anyone scou1d copy such screations.
 This copying, can -scarrie1 into
 For r as M low. as ten dollars you can bury black charmeuse, with the pop | ular pep1u1n elongated at -t1les back.
 This lacks anything in the way of the essential white trimming which is the cachet of fashion this year.
 A yard of white net, two yards of wide black velvet, and six crystal but tons, and you can make such gown, l if you are at all resourceful, into 1 costume as wonderful in it's transfor- nation as that wrought by the wand
 of Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. The net becomes a deep inserted
 shield, with the frills bordering it. The l velvet runs in straight line down over the shield with the buttons at in- I tervals.
 sleeves, the frills can be continued at
 the wrist to give 2, softening as well as
 the latest effect
 l The crystal buttons to which re-
 ferred, are the smartest thing in but tons now worn. While they cost 9
 pretty penny, if used substitutes 1 Tor the olu crOcnet or material COW cred discs, they convert a passe gown | into one up to date. In many in- l stances no other trimming is used. l An especially smart lilac velvet, made as tight as was possible with out the necessity of using a shoe horn l to get the wearer into it, had a long continuous stream of these buttons. | from ne9k to skirt hem, with still an other row on the sleeves extending 1 from wrist to elbow.
 It is just in touches of this sort l where the woman of little means l comes out first best. She must, how | ever, have taste, and remember that l in doing the copying, she cannot lose l sight of the necessity of using just 1 as many buttons, just as much mater i ial and just good quality wings, if l she does not want her effort to pass es l a cheap rather than a skillful imita- l tion. NITA.