The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1003 
The Home Dressmaker 
A Youthful Organdie. —In the first 
illustration, the little figure at the left 
shows white organdie made in a simple 
but attractive style. The skirt was made 
in three tiers or circular flounces, joined 
together. Over the join, and along the 
edge of the skirt, was a banding of blue 
satin ribbon. The plain little waist had 
a square neck edged with a frill, and 
elbow sleeves finished with a circular 
cuff, a band of the narrow ribbon cover¬ 
ing the place where the flaring piece was 
attached. The plain waist was trimmed 
with suspenders of one-inch blue satin 
nbbon, coming down in front over the 
narrow waist ribbon as shown, while in 
the back the suspenders were brought to¬ 
gether at the 
waist, and at¬ 
tached to the 
waist ribbon 
with a bow and 
ends. In front 
there is a little 
bunch of pink 
satin fruit with 
green ribbon 
leaves, laid on 
one suspender 
at the waist 
line. This is a 
very simple 
frock, but an 
unusually pret¬ 
ty style. Among 
organdie dresses 
made in this 
way were or¬ 
chid color with 
pale yellow rib¬ 
bon. jade green 
with flesh pink, 
and blue with 
white. The hat 
is a basket 
weave straw of 
dull blue, with 
a little wreath 
of field flowers. 
The straw is 
woven in a flat 
braid, then the braid woven basket 
fashion. Such hats are sometimes woven 
in two colors of straw, giving a checker¬ 
board effect, and are popular for outing 
hats, as well as for juvenile wear. 
Checked Voile. —At the right is a 
plain little frock of pink and white 
checked voile. It is made all in one, 
without a seam at the waist, and has two 
box pleats all the way from neck to hem 
in both front and back. The novel fea¬ 
ture is that the box pleats are laid on a 
panel of white voile, so that as they flare 
open they give the effect of three white 
stripes. A little above the waist line a 
band of picot-edged white ribbon ran 
through slots in pleats and at each side, 
passing out 
through similar 
slots at the 
back, where it 
was tied in a 
little bow r . There 
were bands of 
the white voile 
in the sleeves, 
just above the 
cuffs. The hat 
was a close lit¬ 
tle shape of fine 
white chi p, 
trimmed in 
front with 
curving ostrich 
tip. 
Plaid Ging¬ 
ham. — In the 
second picture 
the figure at the 
left shows a 
simple gingham, 
quite plain 
enough for the 
country home, 
though the origi¬ 
nal seen in a 
good New York 
shop was priced 
at $35. T h e 
original was tine 
Scotch gingham, 
yellow' a n d 
W’hite plaid with 
a hair line of 
black. The plain 
two-piece skirt 
had a tunic ef¬ 
fect in three 
tiers, like scant 
flounces just eased on around back and 
sides; these tunic bands did not cross the 
front, leaving that like a panel. These 
pieces were attached down their front 
edges, so as to remain flat, and were 
bordered with a two-inch bias band of the 
material. The elbow sleeves had a flaring 
bell-sliaped cuff of bias material, and 
there was a bias roll collar. The fasten¬ 
ing of the waist was invisible, the edges 
coming together without overlap, with a 
row of small yellow buttons on either 
side. Some dresses of the same type had 
no collar, the oval neck opening being 
finished with a bias piping, and this is 
cooler than the rolled collar. The dress 
described had a crush girdle of chestnut 
brown taffeta; we think yellow would 
have been prettier, as the brown made a 
strong contrast, and in plaid material 
a strong contrast in the girdle is often 
unbecoming to the figure. 
Yellow Organdie. —The central figure 
show’s a very plain dress of buttercup 
yellow organdie, trimmed with bands of 
tucking set in like insertion. The tuck¬ 
ing was of the same material, the tucks 
running across the insertion, which was 
set in with hemstitching. Two vertical 
bands of the tucking in front" formed a 
panel; one horizontal band w'ent all 
around the skirt at the hip line, w’hile 
another about nine inches below reached 
the vertical bands, but did not cross the 
front. The pointed bib collar and the 
cuffs were trimmed with insertions of the 
tucking. Around the waist w’as a “shoe¬ 
string'’ girdle of bright peacock blue picot 
edged ribbon. Here again is a very sim¬ 
ple dress, made effective by attractive 
color and novel 
trimming. A 
wh,ite voile dress 
made after this 
model w’ould be 
charming with 
insertions of 
Irish crochet, 
even without the 
hemstitching, 
though this 
would make it 
handsomer, and 
finish off the 
raw edges un¬ 
derneath. This 
machine hem¬ 
stitching is done 
quite cheaply by 
the firms that 
cover buttons, 
tnake pleatings. 
ptc., and usually 
a local dealer in 
notions and 
fancy goods will 
have it done for 
a customer if 
there is no such 
firm in the 
neighborhood. 
Printed 
Chiffon.— The 
. , , . , third figure, 
shown at the right in this group, wears 
printed chiffon made up over taffeta. The 
taffeta_ foundation is midnight blue, and 
the chiffon is a mingled pattern of dark 
blue, copper, and a touch of jade green. 
Printed chiffon is a very fashionable 
fabric now’, and comes in a great variety 
of color combinations. The narrow skirt 
of taffeta has a gathered overdress of 
chiffon coming a little below the knee. 
Ibis tunic was slightly gathered in at the 
lower edge, where it was bordered with a 
band of upturned scallops. These scal¬ 
lops were made separately, like rose 
petals bordered with a cording, and 
turned up flat. The plain waist of ehif- 
ton had a gathered vestee of white or¬ 
gandie, the waist 
being edged, on 
each side of the 
vestee. with re- 
vers of the blue 
taffeta, wider at 
the bottom than 
the top. These 
revers were 
edged with 
round blue but¬ 
tons hanging 
from little cords. 
The sleeves were 
gathered into a 
cuff having scal¬ 
lops of the silk- 
like those of the 
tunic, turned 
back upon it. A 
crushed girdle of 
the taffeta, tied 
in a butterfly 
bow at the back, 
and hemstitched 
collar and cuffs 
of white organ¬ 
die. finished this 
dress. The cord¬ 
ed scallops are 
fussy to make, 
but give a hand- 
tome trimming 
a t s m a 11 ex¬ 
pense. 
I>ress Acces¬ 
sories. — Sports 
scarfs of brushed 
wool are among 
new ideas for 
street wear, and 
are practical, as 
well as jaunty and becoming. These 
scarfs are quite broad, 15 to IS inches, 
and when worn around the shoulders 
come down in front below the waist, the 
ends being fringed. Many of them are 
striped lengthwise in various combina¬ 
tions, some in rainbow mixtures, others 
in two colors. Black with white, navy 
with white, and tan combined with brown, 
purple, rose or turquoise, are popular. 
Such a scarf is worn with a one-piece 
dress, just like a fur scarf, and is cer¬ 
tainly more seasonable. These scarfs 
run from about $4.50 to $15. 
The modish “vanity case” is now a 
canteen box, in an oval shape somewhat 
similar to an opera glass case, with the 
usual strap handle. Such a case, in 
colored vaehette leather, with toilet ap¬ 
pliances. purse and memorandum book, 
costs $7.50. It does not take the place 
of a handbag, for there is little more 
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