The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Home Dressmaker 
A Pongee Sports Sett. —In Winter 
we see the new gowns designed for South¬ 
ern wear, and thus get ideas for Summer 
sewing. In the first picture, the sports 
suit shown presents no special novelty of 
outline, but it has some novel little 
touches, which will be found suggestive. 
It had a loose jacket of natural colored 
pongee, with a rolling shawl collar of 
mulberry moire. Near its closing this collar 
had a buttonhole on one side, while on the 
other side was a large oval amber bead, 
hanging from silk of the same color, so 
that it could be used as a button. The 
coat closed invisibly, but had a piping of 
mulberry color. Three-quarter length 
bell sleeves were edged with a similar 
piping, and at each side, over the hips, 
there was a gathered panel headed by a 
lapel piped all around with mulberry 
color, pockets being inserted under the 
panel. The narrow two-piece skirt had 
a simulated hem about five or six inches 
deep, headed with a piping of mulberry 
silk,- and on each side seam there were 
three of the am¬ 
ber beads, hang¬ 
ing like loose 
buttons. The 
color combina¬ 
tion of this dress 
was very good, 
and the bead 
buttons gave a 
novel touch. A 
dress of this 
style, made of 
pongee, linen or 
similar fabric, is 
always useful in 
the S u m m e r 
wardrobe. 
White Voile. 
—The y o u u g 
girl’s frock 
shown at the 
right was white 
cotton voile 
trimmed w i t. h 
black ribbon vel¬ 
vet. As shown, 
it is merely a 
plain waist fas¬ 
tened down the 
back, with short 
sleeves and 
round neck, and 
a straight gath¬ 
ered skirt. It 
was trimmed 
around n e c k , 
sleeves and skirt, 
with a lattice of 
black velvet, and 
had a crush gir¬ 
dle of black 
satin. On the 
belt, waist and 
skirt was a bit 
of embroidery— 
a pink flower 
with moss-green 
leaves worked in 
crewels. There 
was no other 
trimming, but 
the simple little 
frock was very 
attractive. 
Pink and 
White Check. 
—In the second 
illustration, the 
model shown at 
left was pink 
and white check 
taffeta, but it is 
n very attrac¬ 
tive style for 
wash goods, such 
as voile or tis¬ 
sue gingham. 
The plain two- 
piece skirt had 
two %-in. tucks 
around the hips, 
and was trim¬ 
med in front 
with a little 
round apron of 
fine white organdie embroidery. The waist 
had a little vestee of the organdie embroid¬ 
ery, and a white organdie fichu brought 
down on each side of the vestee. The fichu 
was folded over to show an edge bound with 
the check silk, the white organdie cuffs 
being edged with the silk also. A crush 
girdle of the silk was fastened at the side 
with a bunch of black grapes. This is 
a very attractive model, which would 
develop in any thin check material to 
advantage. 
Black Satin. —The dress shown in the 
center was a simple black satin with an 
original skirt decoration. This consisted 
of a double frill down each side seam,- 
wider at the top. and narrowing towards 
the hem, suggestive of a fish’s fin. This 
frill was gathered down the center on a 
cord, and the effect was very attractive, 
as it stood out enough to give the fash¬ 
ionable outline, broad at the hips and 
narrow at the foot. This trimming also 
had the advantage of being easily re¬ 
moved if it were desirable, to change the 
style of the skirt. The waist was per¬ 
fectly plain, the only trimming being the 
collar and cult's of fine batiste embroidery. 
At the waist was rather an odd girdle 
formed by a string of large oval jet beads. 
An Eton Shit. —The model at the 
right is an Eton suit of sand-color.ed 
crepe de chine, offered for the Southern 
trade. Many women like the Eton ef¬ 
fect, and find it becoming; this model will 
be found very attractive. In this case 
the skirt was accordion pleated. The 
short little jacket had a small braid-bound 
pocket slash on each side, and was bound 
with silk braid, but otherwise untrimmed. 
The sleeve, cut out in a battlement on the 
upper side, was very attractive. The 
under-bodice, which formed vest and gir¬ 
dle, was embroidered in sand color, brown 
and rose, this embroidery forming an 
all-over design. This was fastened in¬ 
visibly under the' arm. The little Eton 
had no fastenings, but with a small coat 
of this kind it is wise to have a snap 
fastener on each side that will attach it 
to the vest or under-bodice, and thus keep 
it in place. 
Spring Blouses. —There are many 
slip-on blouses of the chemise type with 
short kimono sleeves. These are often 
unbelted, coming below the wmistline like 
a middy blouse. They are made of 
Georgette, crepe 
de chine and 
line n, usually 
quite elaborately 
embroid ered. 
One French 
blouse of this 
type was a blue¬ 
bird linen, the 
straight narrow 
sleeves ending 
just above the 
elbow. The 
blouse was very 
straight in cut, 
coming down 
over the hips 
w i t h o u t any 
flare. The round 
neck, sleeves and 
hem had an em¬ 
broidered border 
of colored flow¬ 
ers. Most lux¬ 
urious among 
blouses are slip- 
on styles with a 
s m a 11 peplum 
made of real 
lace. These are 
for wear with 
satin skirts at 
the Southern re¬ 
sorts. and will 
doubtless be a 
feature in Sum¬ 
mer styles. They 
are made of real 
filet lace, filet 
combined with 
Irish, and heavy 
Irish lace alone. 
6 ports blouses 
of madras, dim¬ 
ity, handkerchief 
linen and wash 
silk are usually 
made with roll¬ 
ing collar and 
turnback cuffs, 
so that cuffs 
and collar will 
turn over the 
sweater. 
Spring Cot¬ 
ton Fabrics.— 
The new cotton 
fabrics include 
dotted Swiss in 
great variety. 
Blue is shown 
in many shades, 
and there are 
whites with lit¬ 
tle colored dots, 
priced at $1.50 
to $4.50 a yard. 
Dress ginghams 
are handsome at 
75 cents to 
$1.35. New 
voiles are print¬ 
ed in the de¬ 
signs used for 
chiffon and 
Georgette crepe. 
Some have six to - eight colors in flowers 
or designs. They cost 58 cents to $4.50 
a yard. Cotton crepe of silken clinging 
texture is printed in challie designs, 
and costs $1.15 to $1.35 a yard. The 
sellers tell us cheerfully that prices for 
all cotton goods will be higher in the 
Spring, but many of them are already 
excessive. Saleswomen in all the dry- 
goods stores have a habit of telling custo¬ 
mers that everything wearable is going 
up, and that prices will continue to soar, 
thus forestalling criticism of present ex¬ 
cessive prices, and preparing by mental 
suggestion for a further rise. This al¬ 
ways sounds to us like retailers’ propa¬ 
ganda, and a sensible purchaser will de¬ 
mand the reasons for this gloomy fore¬ 
cast. Frugal and hard-working pur¬ 
chasers are becoming impatient of high 
prices due to excessive wages combined 
with reduced output, or to unreasonable 
retail profits. 
Heavy Brussels net is now often used 
in place of mull as a waist lining in silk 
or Georgette dresses. A firm rather 
coarse quality for this purpose costs 85 
cents a yard. 
From time to time we .see socks offered 
for women’s wear. Silk socks at $3.25 
the pair, with 13 cents luxury tax, were 
recently noted. 
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s warm as io 
The porch thermometer says zero, 
all through the house, 70°. The 
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floor to take the one big dust and gas- 
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