Fashion and Things Feminine.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

Fashion and Things Feminine.

By IDA MELLER

SUMMER FROCKS OF LAWN AND MUSLIN. The season of muslins is, after all, but a short one, and must be made much of, for no fabric is more becoming than muslin, which adapts itself most admirably to the fashionable gauged or gathered skirt and to the two or three tiered one. More particularly is the mhite muslin frock a favourite; but it should not be forgotten that black muslin ako makes up very smartly, and is cool-wearing and practical at the same time and far more uncommon than white or coloured muslin for sartorial purposes. Made up with frills or flounces, the black muslin dress, kept shapely about the waist through the medium of a

wide sash-drapery of black satin, gives a good account of itself especially when the bodice is lightened uy the introduction ol ;> vest and high collar of tine white lace.

Again, very dainty and becoming arc tht new striped muslins, with coloured or black and white elfects, the stripe being now as tine at a pin, now moderately wide. Sometimes tiie skirts are gathered nt the waist, sometimes the trucks are made with long tunics and are trimmed with borders' or graduated bands of plain coloured stuff. Flouncings of white embroidered lawn or muslin are much used in the production of tiered effects the skirt with three flounces of equal deptli find, ing a pretty top in a blouse-bodice the fronts of which are gathered to raglan sleeves and form wide bands about the waist where they can cross and take the place of a belt. A simple frock siutable for lawn or white embroidered muslin, that any girl moderately skilled in dressmaking could easily make for herself in the homo workroom, is illustrated. The skirt is of the two-tier kind, composed of a couple of flounces of which the top one is the deeper. This is gathered top and bottom with little trills of raglan bodice, the sleeves of which are original, for the lower parte, which suggest cuffs or mittens, are entirely of embroidery, beautifully fitted and edg. Ed top and bottom with ltitle frills of lace, which should match the lace of the high collar at the neck. Th» waist is swathed with a wide sash of soft fancy ribbon, and with the dress is worn a pretty hat with dark silk lining and light crown, trimmed with wheat.

THE INDISPENSABLE PRINCESS SLIP. One of the most useful patterns that the home dressmaker can have by her

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sateen, s!ikette > or some such fabric, on wiiicu sue can inouui iitr nouueeu or tunic uress. aiik-u Ijv a wea-cut undersi.p, the tasu 01 urnpiug a skui oi wouict- ib not m the least uimcult.

lne princess sup may be required as •in inuepeuueiit support lor a nounced net or Him voi.e oue-piece hock, or u may be needed *ie> a louudatioa ou winch to stitcu a deep kih or tussoie or other material tnat w met by an uuhned tunic, slipped on separately in countless ways me princess slip is oi value, and reuuees tue worn oi tiie iiome-uresbinaKer to a minimum, in lact, every girl anu woman who makes her own iiocks may be connuently auvised to proviue net self with a plam princess sup alter tue tashion oi tne oiit> sKetcued, wmcii can be celled oi course, in light or dark material, and is such a heip in bringing about good effects easily, it is just the thing «*n which to n^ount a blouse-bodice and plain or Uounced skirt, and thus produce the all-in-one effect.

lhe paper pattern ot the slip is in live parts, una includes hair the front, one back, two side gores and one short sleeve—exactly hair the garment. The quantity of &4-inch material required is yarus or its equivalent in narrower stuff.

The material should be folded in half lengt.iwise, and the front pattern laid on u with straight edge against the lol'i, the entire iront being cut in one pu.ee. The other patterns, distributed ...j shown m the diagram, are cut out in duplicate. The single, double and triple notches indicate the union of the various pattern pieces. When all are tacked together the slip should be tried on. The fastening is at the back, and a placket must be left fro mthe neck to a few inches below the waist. A deep hem, which should be allowed for when cutting out, must be made at the foot and the neck and sleeve edges should be turned in and faced with narrow bias hands, lhe armholes must also be neatened with bindings, and all the seams when stitched beneath the right back- edge, must be arranged. The small back view illustrated shows the slip without sleeves.