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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 
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The Home Dressmaker 
A Tailor-made Season. —The coming 
Spring will show a return to the tailor- 
made suit, and all the models shown are 
very plain, with no trimming except 
sometimes a bind of silk braid. They are 
very slender and straight in outline, the 
coat quite as plain as a man’s. Plain 
colors, sometimes with a hairline stripe 
of white, are preferred. With these suits 
small close hats are worn, very often 
black. These suits have brought the 
watch fob back into style; the fob hangs 
from the coat pocket, and this has 
brought fobs or imitations of them into 
vogue as trimming. One often sees a 
ribbon fob finished with embroidery pen¬ 
dent from a little pocket in a blouse, or 
from the belt, or even as hat trimming. 
A handsome colored scarf, a handkerchief 
to match, or a printed crepe de chine tie, 
brighten the dark suit. A boutonniere of 
artificial flowers is another adjunct to the 
suit; a gardenia, a little knot of rose and 
pansy, or newest of all, a carnation. The 
plain little black hat calls for jeweled 
hatpins; a favored style is a double pin 
with two jeweled heads, one of which 
screws over the point when it is thrust’ 
through the hat. 
An Alpaca Coat Dress. —The first 
picture shows, at the left, a coat dress of 
black alpaca that will be found very be¬ 
coming to a plump figure. Alpaca is a 
very fashionable material, and is often 
made up in black combined with white. 
In this ease the white appears at neck 
and wrists; straight cuffs show beneath 
the bell sleeves, and a crossed vestee at 
the neck. The cuffs and vestee were of 
white pique. A flat tuck, like a French 
seam, curved into the shoulder, giving a 
better fit for a full figure, while three 
large buttons, fastening the skirt where 
it wrapped over and a set-in pocket at 
the other side, trimmed the skirt. The 
dress was tied with a narrow girdle of 
the same material. This was a very sim¬ 
ple dress, but is in excellent taste and 
would be found very useful in either 
black or dark blue alpaca. 
The Shirt-bosom Effect. — Both 
dresses and blouses are seen with a 
pleated shirt-bosom, as shown in the 
model at the right. In this case it was 
very tiny box pleats; sometimes it is the 
French gaufre pleating, or “goffered” 
like our great-grandmothers’ cap borders. 
This dress was copper-colored crepe de 
chine; the pleated blossom was set in 
with faggoting. The short sleeves were 
trimmed with a band of vertical pleating, 
put on with faggoting, and there was a 
band of the same around the waist. The 
skirt was entirely plain, except for some 
pleats over the hip at each side. The 
general outline of the dress was straight 
and narrow. Indeed, the Spring models 
are not cheering to a wearer with gener¬ 
ous curves, for they demand straight up- 
and-down slimness. 
Another Chinese Tunic. —In the 
second picture the model at the left 
shows one of those straight unbelted 
Chinese tunics that are now fashionable. 
This was black crepe de chine, trimmed 
with shades of terra-cotta. The long 
blouse had a square bib-like trimming 
formed of three rows of picot-edged rib¬ 
bon, shading from deep terra-cotta at the 
outside to a pinkish brick. Down the 
center was a strip of Chinese embroidery, 
black, gold and terra-cotta. A standing 
collar of embroidery edged with ribbon 
extended around the back and sides of 
the neck, and the loose sleeves were 
edged with ribbon. The skirt worn under 
this blouse had a band of the trimming 
down the center of the front. This was 
rather an odd-looking dress, but had a 
great deal of style. We see the same idea 
carried out with trimmings of vivid 
Chinese blue. 
Check Alpaca. — The little girl’s 
dress in the center was made of check 
alpaca, brown and fawn. It was as 
straight and plain as a coat, buttoned 
all the way down the front. The trim¬ 
ming was two vertical bands of heavy 
fawn-colored linen on either side, and col¬ 
lar and cuffs of white pique. This was 
a pretty little frock, and exceedingly 
practical. The same idea would seem 
good for heavy wash goods, as it could 
be opened out flat for laundering. 
•Straight Lines in Linen. —The girls’ 
dress at the right was heavy linen in 
natural color, laid in box pleats at either 
side on both waist and .skirt. It was 
varied by a circular peplum below tlio 
belt, while the sleeves were finished with 
circular cuffs below bands. The belt had 
on either side a flat pocket opening, 
bound with linen, and there was a similar 
bound opening in the bands on the 
sleeves. This dress opened down the side, 
under a pleat. The collar was white 
pique. The pretty little hat worn with 
it was a close shape of light brown raf¬ 
fia, with stripes of colored embroidery 
around the crown, and a little pompon 
of colored silk at one side. 
Dress Accessories.— Tan pique is fea¬ 
tured in collar and cuff sets, and there 
are also very attractive styles in natural 
line. A handsome vestee with attached 
Byron collar and turn-back cuffs was of 
natural linen with vivid Chinese charac¬ 
ters embroidered in corners of collars 
and cuffs, and in the center of the ves¬ 
tee. Another very smart vestee was 
printed silk in brilliant Chinese style, 
with a close little stand-up collar. 
Smock frocks are the combination of 
ovcrblouse or long tunic with some ac¬ 
companying skirt, the whole having a 
slender boyish outline. One beautiful 
French model consisted of a red over¬ 
blouse embroidered all over in navy blue, 
over a navy blue satin slip. The two- 
piece silk frock is certainly coming into 
vogue after the long reign of the one- 
piece dress. 
Brickdust, almond green, golden rod, 
fawn and nickel are favored colors for 
flannel skirts. 
There is a specially shaped dress shield 
made for use in kimono sleeves. Always 
use a dress shield that is large rather 
than too small; a margin of safety in 
this respect may save a new dress from 
an unsightly stain. One who perspires 
freely will find one of the bodice shields 
mounted on net very desirable. 
The cloth loops used to button wraps 
of heavy material are often mounted on 
tape instead of cord. With thick cloth, 
the cord would make the loop too bulky. 
The tape gives firmness without bulk. 
In preparing for Spring sewing, one 
should include a good supply of the hiss 
binding that is so easily used. Its uses 
are varied, aud it adds wonderfully to the 
finish of the garment with a decided les¬ 
sening of work. Many women only use 
the white binding, but the city stores 
show a variety of colors, both plain and 
figured. A contrasting color makes an 
attractive finish to wash dresses. A 
child’s dress of orange print, consisting 
of a plain smock and bloomers, was 
made very effective by the use of peacock 
blue binding, which finished all edges. 
An old rose print was bound with green. 
A woman’s bungalow dress of black sa¬ 
teen was bound with henna, and then 
had a little applique of orange and leaves. 
A Chinese Tunic and Two Juvenile 
Models 
cut out from cretonne, on sleeves aud 
pockets. Manufacturers of these biud- 
ings bring out many little novelties, oue 
new this season being a folded binding 
having a little lace edge woven on at the 
fold. The lace was white, the binding in 
a variety of colors. This cost seven cents 
a yard, and would be desirable for fin¬ 
ishing neck and sleeves of wash dresses, 
or edging aprons. There are also trim¬ 
mings sold by the yard, formed of little 
points of cambric sewn into a band; 
these used to be made laboriously by 
folding the material, and were popular 
for white aprons. In colors they are 
also very nice for wash dresses. Another 
trimming consists of a diagonal lattice 
between two braids, the whole being 
about an inch wide; this is 14 cents a 
yard. One can make very good effects 
with colored rick-rack, too, and all these 
accessories add to the attractiveness of 
the home sewing, with much less work 
than the old-time ruffles and tucks. 
