OUR PARIS LETTER.
This is the time of the year when all
fashions seem to be at a stand still,
that is, there is no question of novel.
ties but the stylesalready well known
are used to the be:t advantage, Their
original characteristics are slightly
modified and then presented as “‘new;”
be content.
all interest for Fashion's devotees who
have gone to the sea-shore or monun-
taine to spend the warm season. At
these places, Fashion does not mle
utilize the few months of liberty al-
lowed to them to wear any costume
which may suit their fancy, quietly ig-
noring the dictates of the arbiter.
While the majority do as they please in
the matter of Jress at these resorts, the
more conservative party will be found
following with exact minuteness Fash.
jon’s latest decrees. Sometimes they
rather overdo this and as a result one
exclusive property of the
room, sweeping the
Trouville or Honfleur,
es are generally
or light
a 0h
is observed. The
Ol while Or gray serge
with o; en
1
ise a
dres
beige,
IRCKCY
link butte
at the coll:
The collar
often 1!
pins, place dd one
chemisette i
a yell
stoned AVEeTral Jev
he other.
leather
silk
band,
tight, or els waistband.
This
noon, unle s it 18 necessary to
it for a lawn-ten
ing dress.
The bl
ment that it
costume is
ior
3
chaange
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pt 8
wm
os
costume
1 wi
ite 6 gare
and a deep belt 1m
of surah with le
knotted in front at the
sleeves, close the wrist, wer
broidered to m teh skirt,
model conld be varied according
the purpose for which it n
sired, cloth being substitut
sau de soic and simple soutache or |
gilk embroidery for the jet. It should
always be remembered that the “art” |
of all fashion how to Appro-
yriate that which is pretty, and then to |
se able to change and simplify iis ehar- |
acter so as to meet the needed require- |
ments. {
og Re ends
whist line.
at
the
s dle
4 to Know
Ferice Ligstae,
No, 1185, 1s a pnncesse gown of |
figured wool in heliotrope shade, and
opens on a plastron and skirt front of
faille #ilk of the same shade, It has a
fs
FN
Be B5
Jeating of the
where thd
ond model
: part of the
A parrow panel
nserted in the
skirt, and
he cont bas
fs drawn {or
i
get on the fronts
are trimmed wi
dery headed
I'he oc
o 119)
No. 1191. Six
This gown is
and
GOWN, wm
orown
AND Lace
made of light
Aline tes-colored lace,
bodice is
lace exe pt
the my
idle of the back, and siso a sime-
’
| rows of fanoy stitching
{ broidery silk. The dress goods
mounted in gathers over a plain
the folds at the neck fastencd
fancy stitches and drawp in
heading,
The skirt is also
the armhole with a small heading, Ti
sleeves and shirt are embroidered
match the bodice which
the back by hooks and eyes.
light blue
broidery.
| with a strip of embroidery
mounted in gathers on a Land.
figured ecambrie and
chiffon and trim-
The skirt
and a front
with gathered brown
fall back
Ince. The pointed apron-like
as 18 also
No 11%,
Ko. 1187. Forranp Smmr Waste |
Our model shows a blouse made of |
flowered bine foulard, the pattern of
which is equally suitable for any of
the soft cottons, outing flannels, ete.
The fronts and back have ayoke shaped
lining to which the outside material is
shirred at the top. Fquere pointed,
rolling collar and sle¢ves shirred at the
wrist, The lower adgé of the basque
is sewed to a belt three inches wide,
the right end of which is pointed and
extends rix inches beyond the front
edge of the waist, where it is hooked
under a rosette on the left mde.
. 1188, Exner or Tarrera.—The
erial of this skirt is gray taffeta
striped with white. The lower edge is
trimmed with three bins hox-pleated
flonnces having the edges pinked and
beaded with a narrow basd ornsmented
with feather stitching in y sill
The top of the skirt is finished with a
yoke band and draw strings,
No. 1180, Commwa Sacqur.~The
material for this combing sseque is
white eambric trimmed with Hamburg
insertion apd edgirg. The fronts are
tueked on either side of a band of ine
portion, and on the right front is set a
double band of edging, eonnected
a narrow festher-stitched band, whic
rovers the fly fastening, Pookels ar
No. 1192, Cmeonex's CosroMps,—
The little dress on the left is made of
crepe ornamented with
No. 1181. rroxt view,
No. 11685 Cnr Six
Yuans Onn. o cloak pale
blae wool and deep blue bengaline are
used, with trimmings ot silk embroid-
erv. The back has three seams with
sides forming two pleats and the cen-
tre of the back bengaline. The
fronts open on a broad pleal of beng-
saline, esoh side of which is a narrower
pleat of the wor 1 goods, A pointed
voke of bengaline is plac d on the open
fronts and looses itself under the edge
of the wool rlea's Straight collar in
bengaline and flat pointed eollar in
wool. Bleeves fall on the shoulder,
trimmed with a bias band of bepgaline
and a pointed belt of bepgaline, em-
Croag ron
A
For this litt]
mn
the yoke, snd the tinming on the
| front,
FANCY WORK.
A new iden is that of executing can.
vas embroidery with the mater al
stretehed tightly in a frame,
frames are the ordinary frame, but a
gqueire and of varions sizes,
coarse wire and bonnd with ribbon,
These frames make the embroidery
very easy, for itis almost impossible
to draw the threads of the canvas ont
of place or work unevenly. Any connt-
ing of threads that may be nedessary
is far more (nsily mansged when the
t material is thas tightly stretched. 1In-
experienced workers will do well to in-
vest in a picee of work that is com-
| menced as a model, for from this they
| enn similar designs for them-
selves more or less elaborate as they
h OORe, .
Most of the new sideboard cloths,
teacloths, and articles of this kind are
sold with the drawn thread work fin-
| ished, the embroidery between this
. alone being left for the purchaser to
finish, "The reason for this is 1
i Indies have GeOme aceustomed to w
i satin, butt
{ Other Tanoy
of
made
devise
and var
lithe
ining
hols outline
con
ile bine or
i01E
be remembar
be igo
TT LY,
htt Gehl de + -
Liree rov
v a few length-
m an edge.
begin with 0 chain
a loop with a slip stiteh.
ging'e crochet aronnd the
p stitch on the first single,
chain, 17 doable crochet,
184 TOS
For
once
2nd row.—4
3d and the 4th chain at the beginoing.
9d row.—A sincle around the first
chain in the last row, 17 times 4 chain
and a single around the next chain,
then 4 chain, a slip on the first single
in the row, 4th row.—2 slip stitches
on the first 2 chain, then 18 times 5
pt
ehain and a single into the next4 chain
scallop; this completes a rosette; when
ach succeeding one connect
the midd . ebain of each of the last 2
scallops to he eorresponding chain A
the 9th and 8th seallops of the preced-
| ing rosette: in the remsinine 2 rows of
| scallops connect rosettes to on®
another, and also connect them to those
of the preceding row in the manner
illustrated in Fig. 2: the rosetfes of
each succeeding row alternate as there
! shown: where this leaves & gap at the
ends of the 24 row put a oar] rosette
for which work the first three rows of
the larger one on a circle of 12 gingles,
In the model the yoke is 52 rosettes
long. For the edging of the lace work
proeced as foliows: 1st row. —2 double
erochet on the stiteh by which one
roscite is connected to the next, 1
chain, a single sround the following b
chain, 6 times 5 chain and a single
around the succeeding 5 chain, then 1
chain: repeat. 2d row.—A on
the 24 of the 2 donble, 3 chain, a single
und the { llowing
wv er)
ne
single
uy
x # ®
EYRN SEERA
for side
tidies or
: and
Lika,
y Lhe
wok
es 0 :
{esple of that town in U
ing their teeth.
For fourteen Years a
Marshes" in Scotland h
$0 get a sioht of a wi
act of guarding its young
He trampe
hat purpose, but
of the
trying
in the
1 time of
i dav aller
without suc-
“Son
as been
Pima:
danger. has
lay for
Prayer books, bound In ivory, thal
sell at 13 apiece, are among the {a vors
in demand at shops that carry specially
PAINTED WALL POCKET,