Evening star., 1925-09-04

The latest idea is to have every
thing in the wardrobe match. Each
gown or frock, even the simplest de-
sign, has its own set of underwear, r,
stockings, shoes and hats. 1t is not
necessary that every. article be of
the same color or material-indeed,
quite the contrary very often-but
each article in the wardrobe must
belong to the ensemble
Throughout the year highly paid
travellers and agents of large firms
in New York, London and Paris are
searching necessarily for novelties in
articles of attire and for new sources
Of supply. Some OF the embroideries
used on dresses, for instance, come
from Switzerland, Czechoslovakia,
India, Egypt, South Africa, China
and Peru, as well as from the United
States. Calico owes its npme to Cali
cut, town in southern India, whence
most of the best calico originally
came. The Far East is also the
birthplace of muslin, which came
originally from Mosul. a great com
mercial center on the banks of the
Tigris
Two textiles owe their names and
origin to France. These are cretonne
and cambria. The former came orig
inally from the Normany town of
SJlll
manufactured at Cambrai. Much of
the silk for dresses comes from the
tar East, particularly from India and
Japan, TO be made up from the raw
material by the silk workers of other
countries.
Trimmings and Decorations.
4 delightful new craft for decorat-
Ing silks. satins, lace, leather. porce-
" ie
The materials necessary for the work
are imitation jewels and brilliants in
various sizes, some tubes of colored
ana transparent mixtures for setting
me jewels and a pair of tweezers
The cost of a whole outfit is very
little.
The setting mixture. which can be
bought at an art store. should be nut
INTO paper cones and squeezed out
from the point onto the design. The
jewels should then be pressed out onto
the setting mixture, which will hold
them hrmly in position when dry. If
me jewels stand up from the back
ground and are in position on a
Sarment, for instance, which NAV he
subjected TO rather rough wear. an eX-
ira cdginC of transparent setting mix
ture should be added 10 give security.
Lovely effects OF jewel incrustation
arc suitable for evening wraps and
gowns.
An ordinary dog chain may be eff.
iIectvely utilized to form a really
handsome dress trimming The chain
should be entirely covered with tinsel
thread in buttonhole stitch. These
chains can also be worked over with
white wool in the same way, and are
strlkIngly effective on a black dress. or
colored silk or wool may be used
Another very charming trimming
for a jersey dress is made from sew
eral yards of crochet chain-stitch with
either crochet silk, cotton or wool
Designs in leaves or other shapes
should be cut out of buckram and
then entirely covered with the crochet
chain and sewed on like braid. These
designs should be sewed on the skirt
and long ends of the braid carried up
10 the WaIStline, or else twisted in
scrolls between the leaves. 1t is also
effective to string tiny beads of a con-
trast1ng color onto the braid before
sewing 1t onto the leaves.
To Thread Beads.
1t is very tiresome when a beaded
necklace breaks. The business Of re.
threading the beads after a break re-
quires time and patience, and most
women HIld lnat, IN spite or rea SON.
able care, the fashionable, long strings
of beads are constantly becoming
''hitched up" and severed, with the re-
suit that the work has to be done
again. One girl has found a way TO
overcome the difficulty by substituting
very fine tape for the waxed thread
usually employed. She buys the kind
sold for threading through babies lit
tie garments. This she prepares by
rubbing IL over a piece of cobbler's
wax. The beads are then strung in
the usual way and the result is very
successful.
New Underwear
Chinese embroidery and Chinese
motifs make a quaint decoration for
underwear. Circular motifs, matching
the silk binding of the cami-knickers,
are favorite trimmings. Strips of old
Chinese embroidery are used in the
ornamentation of underslips for thin
dresses.
The new wrap-over petticoat is a
design which adequately meets the
needs of the girl whose dresses are
or the ltghteSt texture. Very often il
is necessary to wear more than one
petticoat under a thin silk or muslin
dress, thereby adding to ones discom-
fort, especially on a warm day. There
is no need to do this when a wrap
over garment is available Attached