Fashion and Things Feminine.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 6, 22 January 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

Fashion and Things Feminine.

By IDA MELLER

A NOVEL SCHEME FOR A LINEN DRESS. Th. e mixed dress, with skirt of one material and top of another, is more and more seen, and the fashion, is one that opens dp great possibilities when; leaovaticriS are concerned, rendering it quit© possible for th e renovated frock or costume to assume the aim of a newly-mad >• confection, founded on the latest fashion

For out of doors, a leading vogue is a tailor-made skirt, supplemented by a sports coat in a different colour and material, or by a tunic in contrast, and this latter style is also affected in relation to house-drosses. Theitunic mayhang quit;- ..imply, in its own folds, or be of the pleated type—both stylce are fashionable. Another scheme for a mixed dress is elovised with plain skirt and short, sleeveless tunic of dark, soft material, and sleeves, vest piece, and frill to the tunic of brocaded fabric, the waistband, finished with a bow in front, lining <>f the same. The tunic io tucked under at the end. where it is frilled, and stitched to the skirt, and the sleeve!; ss bodice, cut very big at the nrniholPS, is decollete to the waist and filled in with a straight-acres, s ? vest of brocade, above which is a chemisette

of tacked, white bv.vn. with lic-i*i_ titc'n--0(1 collar. The sleeve- :iJ - e long and finished with folded (art's of the i !;iit material ami small frilK and the cambric '.>•!. it should he added. fas>tsi:s with coloured drop-buttons. A smart but simple dress of mixed materials is illustrated. Here we have a nicely hung skirt, that might be of fin? coating-serge, cloth or whipcord, and a becoming tunic for which a plaid or a black and white checked cotton or delaine material may he suggested. The costume would be smart and useful for holiday wear at the seaside, and imagination can readily picture it carried out in various setn'nies of colour and material. It might, for instance, lie of crcpoa or linen throughout—the skirt plain-coloured and the tunic-coat of printed or checked fabric. _ The collar and cuffs (the former is supplemented by an over-collar of whiteJawn) .should be of the .-kirt material, while the belt and tie would l»e .smart in black .silk or satin. An effective m.clley for the dress would he a black or dark blue skirt and blue and green, or red and green, plaid tunic. A particularly smart hat. suitable for black straw or silk, trimmed with :« wide band of ribbon and an aigrette of flowers accompanies the dross. TUNIC FP.OCK FOR A CHILD. A pretty litU, tunic, equally suitable for a boy or girl of three or four years, ir, illustrated, and would make up well in light blue or ercs-green linen, with yoke embroidered to match. or in white. Acrain, the tunic would be useful in indigo Sin. n. with light blue or red embroidery. About l! yards of 12-inch stuff will he required. The pattern is in five parts, representing half the tunic, and those pieces are in client d bv the .diagram, and are respectively: Half th e fro-.t tunic, No. 1 ; one back. No. 2: half the yoke. No. .'».: one sleeve. No. 4: one cuff No. 5. Tl> Q bdt should be of patent leather, either black, rod. rU' blue, arcordirrg to the colour of the linen used.

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The cuff, is cut wide enough t« be doubkd. and i s therefore seli'-iined, but tlie yoke requires a lining. Before being made up. however, it should be embroidered in tlie scallops rind att the neck.

The back ot tlie tunic is closed with buttons and buttonholes, the. placket extending to the belt-line. It must, of course, i>j arranged in tji e usual way. both edges being turned in and faced, and the end of the placket strengthened to prevent splitting when the tunic is put on and taken off. Ihe ideev:s are • lightly gathered en the shoulders and at the wrists, but the tunic fits the yoke quite simply, without pleats or gathers. The yoke rests outside tlie tunic, the edge of the latter !>eing encased between yoke and lining.