Ladies' Column

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 101, 23 February 1892, Page 2

Ladies' Column

By Huia. I keep his house, I wash, wring, brew, j bake, scour, dress meat, make the beds, and do all myself. — Shakespeare. fashion notes. As we shall soon be returning to | warmer dresses, and many will be j anxious to make their spring costume ; suffice for autumn wear, I thought ; perhaps a few hints on renovating them might be useful to my readers. In these clays of corselet bodices, and blouse bodies, this is not at all a difficult matter, and the effect will amply repay you for the time and trouble you may have spent upon it. We all know that the bodice of a dress wears out quicker than any other part, and that in remodelling a dress you can generally get part of a new one, but very seldom a complete bodice ; then with a little velvet or a different shade of the same material you can make a waistcoat with deep buttoned cuff and collar or a V back and front, a yolk, or corselet bodice all of with are pretty and. stylish, and any of them will help you out of your difficulty. Although the highly trimmed bodices are aa advantage in making up half worn dresses, I think myself nothing is so becoming to most people as the tight fitting plain bodice. Gored shirts are in high favour ; they are made with the front and side breadths gored and sometimes the back breadths are also gored, but this necessitates a slight train, and is only suitable for dress occasions. I have also seen them piped down each gore, sometime in a contrasting color. The pretty tea gowns which have been so fashionable this summer, made of lace and muslin, are giving place to warmer materials ; the favourite materials will be mousseline de lame and cashmere ; jet is very fashionable ; bonnets are almost entirely covered with jet beading ; capotes are made with bands of jet over double row of loop of ribbon, and makes a very effective trimming. A new hat trimming for girls consists of pinked out cloth, and if mixed with velvet and ribbon looks very pretty. Feather tri.nining will be the most fashionable trimming this winter for walking jackets A new dress material is pean-de-nyrnphe. It is a satin like cloth (very fine) in soft shades, amongst which are mouse-gray, sevres-blue, sea-weed, and various others. It is well adapted for the slight draperies, which are gradually taking the place of the plain shirt so much worn lately.