Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1910 — To Tailor Wash Frocks. [ARTICLE]

To Tailor Wash Frocks.

There was a time when the tailored gown meant cloth, and a fairly heavy quality at that; then lighter weights and heavy pongee silks were included in the tailor's stock. The midsummei costume how requires a coat, and otu tailor does not go out of business when his early sprnig season closes. His order book is filled up to ths middle or the end of July, and his summer stock includes all varieties o) the pongee weave, beside the white and colored costume linens. Dressmakers and the home sewers go one step further when they makt the Scotch ginghams, percales and goods of a like weight, with a tailored finish. Tailoring the tub gown, whether ii be the two-piece dress or the princess effect, is a method with two excellent results. Tailoring means the strengthening of a fairly low-priced material, and it means very good style for ths simple morning street dress. Any woman is more willing to appear it the well-made, well-stitched cottor gown that, therefore, ha s a snap to it than she would be to wear a slungtogether dress bearing the combined stamp of rapid sewing and a bargain" price. Nothing could save it froir being mistaken for just a fair-looking working dress. To tailor the tub gown means only a little bit more trouble and is not half as difficult as it sounds. Ii does not mean that one must have learned the tailor’s art. But simply that on« must leave a good-sized seam everywhere throughout the bodice and skirl jtortions and whether these seaim be turned together underneath 01 merely overcast, they are stitched flat once or twice on the right s;d« after the gown is pressed. The bodice seams should be stitched down befort the sleeves are put in; the skirt seams done before the hem is turned upr Ii there are blouse or skirt plaits, s very nice tailor’s touch is the row oi stitching near the fold of the piait