Jht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
657 
The Home Dressmaker 
Flounces Have Returned. — Tunics 
still prevail, but what are called Spanish 
bounces are coming into vogue, and the 
dress on the left, in the first picture, 
shows their use. This was a taffeta dress 
of a plain one-piece model, trimmed with 
two deep knife-pleated flounces, which 
gave a tunic effect. Similar pleatings 
finished the elbow sleeves and round neck. 
A narrow girdle was tied in front; the 
waist fastened invisibly down the shoul¬ 
der and under the arm. This dress seems 
a desirable model for fine voile in a solid 
color, for good cotton voile holds pleating 
very well. One wearing mourning would 
find this a useful model for black cotton 
voile or dotted swiss, which would make 
a cool and inexpensive dress to wear over 
a black slip. The hat shown is a small 
shape of embroidered Georgette, with 
some black cherries hanging at the side. 
Georgette and Fou¬ 
lard.— The dress at 
the right, in the same 
picture, was a combi¬ 
nation of dark blue 
and white printed fou¬ 
lard with plain dark 
blue Georgette, and 
this, too, could be de¬ 
veloped very attract¬ 
ively in plain and fig¬ 
ured voile. The sur¬ 
plice waist and nar¬ 
row skirt were of the 
foulard, the tunic of 
plain Georgette with 
foulard bands trim¬ 
ming it. The elbow 
sleeves were of Geor¬ 
gette, banded with 
foulard, the little vest 
and collar being of 
white organdie. This 
was a pretty model, 
and it suggests a very 
practical model for a 
dress of figured mate¬ 
rial. The hat is a 
folded toque of blue 
cellophane. 
Juvenile Models. 
—The little dress at 
the left, in the second group, was pale 
yellow organdie. It was a plain kimono 
shape, gathered a little at the neck in 
both front and back, the short sleeves 
gathered into little puffs. The round neck 
was finished with a thick strand of orange 
wool, whipped on with wool of a lighter 
shade, and there was a wreath of colored 
flowers embroidered in front. An unusual 
trimming finished sleeves and hem ; it 
consisted of flat loops of white organdie 
banding, about an inch and a half long, 
spaced about the width of the banding. 
Orange satin ribbon was run through 
these loops. The organdie banding was 
finished with a picot edge. It was rather 
an odd trimming, but the effect was 
pretty. 
A Young Girl’s Blouse.— The figure 
in the center wears a separate blouse and 
skirt, the blouse being a pretty girlish 
style that gives a change from the popular 
middy. It is a Peter Pan blouse of blue 
and white gingham, with white collar, 
cuffs and band down the front, all edged 
with narrow 
pleating. Fine 
rickrack braid 
would be equal¬ 
ly pretty for an 
edging, anti 
would be easier 
to iron, or nov¬ 
elty braid of the 
medallion type 
such as is used 
with crochet 
work. The little 
gingham blouse 
is pretty and 
practical for 
wear with a 
cloth, piqu6 or 
linen skirt. 
Another Yel¬ 
low Organdie. 
—The little 
dress at the 
right is another 
yellow organdie 
of the plain ki¬ 
mono type. The 
trimming was so 
pretty and yet 
simple that it may give an idea to others. 
It consisted of bands of heavy orange 
wool whipped on with wool of a darker 
shade. Between these bands were ap- 
pliqued flowers of simple outline, the 
flowers being made of fine mercerized 
cotton material. We have seen some 
dresses of colored dotted swiss trimmed 
with conventional flowers and foliage de¬ 
signs of white swiss appliqued on, the 
colored material cut away beneath it, and 
the effect was very pretty. 
Separate Skirts.— Every woman or 
girl needs some separate skirts to wear 
with wash waists. Favored materials are 
cotton gabardine and ratine, linen, flan¬ 
nel. serge, woolen stripes and plaids, surf 
satin, baronette satin, crepe de chine, and 
other fancy silks, and knitted worsteds. 
Accordion pleated knitted worsteds are 
perhaps the newest of all woolen sports 
skirts, costing from around $10 and up. 
Knife-pleated flannel, in white and light 
shades, from about $12 up, is very at¬ 
tractive, tailored flannel not pleated being 
a little cheaper. Linen, in white and 
pastel shades, is always in good taste, and 
never goes out of style. So-called sports 
skirts in canton crepe are often beauti¬ 
fully embroidered. In buying a striped 
or plaid separate skirt one should select 
a predominant color that goes with one’3 
cloth suit; then the separate skirt goes 
with the suit coat, and saves the other 
skirt. The skirt should always be chosen 
to harmonize with a sweater, too. There 
are some attractive Summer sweaters of 
chiffon alpaca, in Tuxedo shape, that are 
excellent for wear with separate skirts. 
Color Comrinations.— So many bril¬ 
liant colors are now seen in women’s 
wear that it is very easy for one who 
buys without foresight to spoil the effect 
of her clothes by injudicious mixtures. 
We saw an elderly woman recently who 
exhibited this in a high degree. Her 
clothing was all good, new and stylish, 
yet she was very bad¬ 
ly dressed. She wore 
a dark blue silk jersey 
dress, a dark brown 
wrap, pearl gray spats 
and a green hat. A 
brown coat rarely 
looks well with a blue 
dress, except one of 
the sand or fawn 
shades; her spats 
should have been sand 
o" mode to go with 
her wrap, and her hat 
was entirely independ¬ 
ent of all her other 
clothes. It is a real 
misfortune when one 
who must wear the 
same clothes through¬ 
out the season buys so 
indiscreetly. 
Sewing-room Notes. 
—Readymade waist 
linings come in nain¬ 
sook, net and silk, all 
prepared for use, and 
nicely finished with 
edging at neck and 
armholes. 
Bias binding tape 
will be found very use¬ 
ful in trimming Summer dresses, wash 
blouses and children’s clothes. Folded 
flat and used like a piping it is very at¬ 
tractive for finishing yokes or other 
seams, or put under the edge of cuffs or 
collars. It may also lie used as a bind¬ 
ing, or folded and stitched flat like a 
braid. 
Some of the quilted satin coats seen 
are quilted all over, and are really very 
odd-looking, for they are too thick to fall 
into attractive folds, and rather suggest 
a coat worn inside out. Others have a 
deep border, cuffs and collar, quilted in 
an elaborate design, the remainder being 
plain, and these are quite handsome. 
Faggoting is used as trimming on crepe 
de chine gowns, usually several horizontal 
rows in the skirts, waist and sleeves. 
Bead embroidery still holds it vogue on 
all sorts of materials. Fine hand-made 
wash dresses are often trimmed with 
drawn Work. 
Broad-brimmed hats seem more popular 
than for many seasons, though the little 
turban styles 
are not by any 
means out of 
style. There is 
a n increasing 
vogue for black 
and white mil¬ 
linery — black 
hats with white 
trimming. Some¬ 
times the trim¬ 
ming is wreath¬ 
ed around the 
crown, some¬ 
times grouped 
on the brim, in 
the center of 
each side. One 
large black hat 
noted had a 
large bunch of 
dead white 
grapes on each 
side, the foliage 
as well as fruit 
being white. We 
also see a great 
many dead white 
cherries. 
A very attractive dress of navy blue 
twill, a plain tailor style, was noted with 
collar, vestee and cuffs of check gingham, 
blue and white or red and white. 
Organdie printed in block checks was 
$1.25 a yard, colors being blue, rose, or¬ 
chid, cerise or green on white. Dotted 
swiss is $1.50 a yard up, in a great 
variety of colors. The less expensive 
weaves are a little over 30 inches wide. 
It is likely to be very popular. We saw 
some showy gowns of navy blue swiss. 
with red dots, made up with girdles and 
little ruches of red grosgrain ribbon. 
Navy blue with white dots is cooler in 
appearance, and such a dress would be 
quite serviceable, as well as cool, in hot 
weather. While the new novelty voiles 
are still expensive, standard grades have 
got down to normal in price. Recent 
sales have been offering both plain and 
printed voiles of fair quality as low as 
28 cents a yard. We also see a little 
reduction in white muslins and percales. 
Flaxon, 34 cents a yard, and longeloth 
$1.75 for 10 yards, were seen lately. 
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