Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
843 
The Home Dressmaker 
Camp Clothes. —All the large stores 
now make a feature of girls’ camp clothes. 
These include middies, bloomers, knickers 
and pleated skirts. We noted recently, 
in one of the high-class shops, knickers of 
heavy blue linen, sizes 8 to 14, for $5.50; 
of khaki, $1.95 to $2.95. Bloomers, serge, 
$4.95 to $5.95; blue linen, $2.75; khaki, 
$1.50 to $2.50. Blue linen middies were 
$3.50, and blue linen skirts $2.75. Some 
of the girls’ camps require blue linen and 
blue serge, as a sort of uniform. Tweed 
knickers, gray or brown, are very popular 
also. When Mrs. Bloomer appeared, 75 
years ago, in a skirt reaching just below 
the knee, with ankle-length Turkish trou¬ 
sers beneath it, her costume was regarded 
as extremely daring, and excited a storm 
of disapproval. We think Mrs. Bloomer’s 
critics would be rendered speechless by 
the groups of girls to be met hiking near 
the cities every Sunday, hatless, short- 
haired, and without the vestige of a skirt 
among them. 
A Simple Cotton Frock. —The first 
picture shows, at the left, a very simple 
frock of yellow English print with a ring 
dot of dark blue. It is made in a style 
often seen in printed silk, but is especial¬ 
ly suited for cotton. The dress itself is 
straight and narrow, with a smooth round 
yoke and short sleeves. All down the 
front is a panel of white swiss embroid¬ 
ery, the edges of the dress being scalloped 
all the way down, the scallops bound with 
the material. The short sleeve is bound 
and scalloped, with a cuff of the white 
embi’oidery below. A narrow strap gir¬ 
dle. of the material went around the 
waist. One sometimes sees dresses made 
with this front panel without the yoke, 
in which case there is a fastening at one 
side of the panel. With the round yoke 
there is an invisible closing on each 
shoulder, the dress being a slip-on. We 
see some dark silks made with a panel of 
white lace or embroidery all down the 
front, but it is very perishable. The 
style is very suitable for English print, 
or other printed cottons, and though we 
ought to be a little tired of short sleeves, 
they still persist. The hat shown was 
yellow and white, a very popular com¬ 
bination this season. 
A Linen Suit.— The brown linen suit 
at the right showed two prevalent fash¬ 
ions—the short boyish coat and the wrap¬ 
around skirt. The coat, which came just 
below the low waist line, was open at the 
front, without fastenings. It was collar¬ 
less,. and the fittted sleeves were a trifle 
short, so as to show the cuffs of the 
blouse. There was a little patch pocket 
at each side, the bottom of which came to 
the edge of the coat, so that the seam 
was turned in with the edge, instead of 
being stitched on the coat. The blouse 
worn with this was natural colored pon¬ 
gee, the round collar showing over the 
coat, with a brown tie in front, and the 
cuffs showing beneath the jacket sleeves. 
The skirt worn with this is the wrap¬ 
around style so popular in tailored suits 
and separate skirts. It is very simple to 
make, being practically a piece of ma¬ 
terial of the right length and width wrap¬ 
ped around and brought over at the left 
side, where there is a hem from top to 
bottom, instead of a seam. It is very 
necessary to fit the skirt so that it will 
not draw around the hips. Where the skirt 
is to be worn with overblouses it is a 
great advantage to attach it to a bodice 
top, easing it by gathers at the back. If 
it is to be finished with a belt, to be worn 
with tuck-in blouses, it is an advantage, 
with any heavy material, to fit the top 
with some small darts, so that the full¬ 
ness may be eased in without bunchiness. 
Overblouses are so commonly worn that 
many separate skirts are finished with a 
bodice top, which keeps the skirt in place 
without a close belt. The placket of the 
wrap-around skirt is under the overlap. 
Care must be taken that the overlap is 
deep enough ; it should lap about 12 in. 
at the bottom. It is not stitched flat to¬ 
gether, but is attached at intervals, so 
that it appears loose. Some dressmakers 
use snap fasteners at intervals, but more 
often invisible stitches are used, the first 
fastening being a few inches above the 
hem. The little casque or helmet hat 
worn by this model is a particularly pop¬ 
ular shape for bobbed hair. 
Costume with Tunic. —In the second 
picture, the figure at the left shows a 
skirt, and tunic which, with a long coat 
of the same sort of silk as the skirt, 
forms one of the fashionable three-piece 
suits. The tunic was printed chiffon, 
fawn and brown, made with a yoke and 
vestee in one. The fronts were laid over 
the vestee surplice fashion, and appar¬ 
ently tied in front. The edges over the 
vestee were bound with the silk, which 
was heavy crepe, dark brown in color. 
Bands of the brown crepe finished the 
sleeves, and the skirt of the tunic. The 
coat forming the third garment of this 
suit was long and narrow ; it was made 
of the brown silk lined with the same fig¬ 
ured chiffon. This is a present-day fash¬ 
ion which gives a very pretty effect, and 
it makes a luxurious-looking wrap. The 
coat was fastened with flat amber glass 
buttons. Glass buttons—clear glass, 
either crystal or faintly tinted—are very 
popular this Spring, arid are extremely 
pretty. The unlined flannel suits that 
are so extensively displayed this season 
usually have glass buttons. 
A Pretty Coat JDress. —The dress 
shown in the center is one of the coat 
styles which still remain popular; the 
material printed silk in black, white and 
red, the edges bound with black satin. 
The narrow revcrs, coming down to the 
waist, are given a pretty effect by the 
notch at each side, and the elbow sleeve 
has a deep slash. The guimpe or blouse 
worn with this was made of white wash 
silk, the flaring sleeves being slashed like 
the upper sleeve, and bordered with a 
little ruche. The roll collar was also 
edged with a ruche. There was a little 
pocket at the right side of the skirt, 
which wrapped over at the left. Such a 
dress is very cool and comfortable, and 
especially becoming to a plump wearer. 
The complaint is often made that all our 
fashions are designed for girlish figures, 
but it is quite possible to find becoming 
styles for the matron. The leading shops 
now carry large sizes in many ready¬ 
made garments, in some cases up to 50-in. 
bust and over, but of course these gar¬ 
ments are designed for the large figure, 
and do not include all the popular mod¬ 
els. 
Chintz and Organdie. —The child at 
the right shows a combination of printed 
chintz and white organdie. The upper 
part of the dress, simulating a jacket cut 
out in front, was of cream-colored chintz 
with a small floral design of pink and 
Two Silk Dresses and a Simple Juvenile 
green,_ bound all around with the same 
material, and laced at the top with nar¬ 
row green ribbon. Where the jacket was 
cut out in front it showed a vest of white 
organdie, tucked across. The skirt was 
of white organdie, and had, scattered 
around it, flowers cut out of the chintz 
and appliqued on. This was a very dain¬ 
ty little dress, not advisable for frequent 
laundering, but it suggested a very pretty 
combination of plain and figured or flow¬ 
ered material. A skirt and vest of col¬ 
ored linen, with the jacket part of flow¬ 
ered material, would be very pretty, and 
would also furnish an attractive Way of 
utilizing an outgrown dress. 
Notes and Novelties. —One of the 
shops offered India prints, 50 in. wide, 
for 45 cents a yard. These were printed 
in traditional East Indian designs, in a 
variety of colors; they are used for sports 
frocks, house and garden dresses, and 
hangings. One of the fashionable dress¬ 
makers is offering sports dresses made of 
Normandy peasant handkerchiefs, which 
are about a yard square, printed in an 
all-over design, with border. The hand¬ 
kerchiefs come in the piece, and four are 
required to make a dress, with short 
sleeves. 
Scotch woolens, 54 in. wide, cost $3.75 
to $7.50 and $9.50 a yard. Shetland 
homespuns at the higher price are woven 
diagonally, and in stripes, plaids and 
diamond patterns. 
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