Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-21
OF GARMENTS
TO CONFORM WITH STYLES
Goats Are Difficult to Alter When Thew
Are Cut According to Last Springs
Fashions Changes Made in
the New Skirts.

| IN single box plait al the back Some
now this skirt does not look right against
the present tendency to have everything
loose al the waist line and over the hips
or II tIsht to obtain the tightness by a
mp NoEe or Turkish sash and not with
the upper part of Il one-piece skirt
Last September. in Paris. the dress
makers insisted on fitting the American
! women with cloth suits that We're gath
cred to an inch wide belt at hack and
sides. and the Americans refused then,
Those who Were persuaded into accept
ing 1t as novelty had their skirts altered
as soon as they arrived in America, be-
cause they We're laughed at for wearing,
a gathered cloth skirt, and they felt
keenly the difference between the suit
they bought in Paris and the suits that
were made in America
hen December came they We're de-
cldediE sorry that they had hammered
with their skirts American tailori and
dlessmakefS began to loosen the material
at The belt. take out the fitted box ulait
ana give ill!ness at the knees Today
thls method is the correct one for every
tailor suit, and we are So arcus+o,,aI
10 the huge waist dimension thar is given
by ali clothes that we find the skirt of
idsi spring rather old fashioned in its
appearance '''
1t Is difficult to make the one kind of
SKIRT INTO the other, for the ..atbarad
one is biiilt from single width Of extra
Wide materials and is fastened up the
oi 'iie sewage The other skirt is
cut IN two or four pieces
Inc mp yoke which is So fs sbio,at1a
Is the nfst thought to the woman who
IS niterlnS certain kind OF skirts espe.
o!aii! nose tnat have grown too tight
over the hips and at the waist Iine -rhoa
yokeS may be run down as far oya IT,
| nips as one needs. and they can he cut
! III an irregular shape at the hem If ~
eNIsehcies OF the lower skirt so demand
me best part of it is that the ,o!.a
mo iaI
| lower skirt The only requirement is that
IL IS used III some measure on the coat
For instance take thin. dark blue serge
Sut mat must be altered Let us say the
! sklft Is too tight II the hips and TN.
pack IL shiny. y hip yoke of Scotch
pad silk in dull tones, like blue and
| plack. can be used with good effect ON
| tile coat there must he "a collar and cuffs.
an" anu hiayhitp i Walstcoat also OF he silk.
| l his latter fashion for IL waistcoat on
coats mas materially aided in the work of
IfeconStructinS. especially as some of then,
| are ten inches wide. across the waist line
! and below it,
! Again. il a woman is slender and is
| quite sure OF the grace of her figure She
| can make the Turkish sash take the place
OF a yoke and at the same time hide the
ideiiciencies of the skirt. She should
choose soft material for il and wran IL
around waist and hips in any way that
suits her fancy. because all ways are
acceptable as far as fashion is concerned
| These SasheS are eminently eastern, but
il is not necessary to choose the imita
ton eastern fabrics for them although
the strict Votaries of fashion do it, Wom-
en- who are quite used to wearing eX-
ltreme things are now seen with brilliant
Roman sashes of corded silk tied around
the skirts of black silk suits; you may
imagine how far we have gone in accept
ing coorS.
Copyright, 1913 by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)