Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — The HOME DEPARTMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The HOME DEPARTMENT

USE OLD FINERIES (lack waists and silk skirts FOR NEW BLOUSES. Practical Woman Can Make Good Use of Ancient Materials—Everything Can Go Into Bodice Nowadays. The woman who has old lace waists £n hand, or a skirt or two in figured r plain silk, may now find use for [these dilapidated fineries. A little istudy of the stop models in both elejgant and practical blouses for winter wear will demonstrate how these ancient materials pan be used up, for

everything can go into a bodice nowadays, and yelling one stuff with another is the madness of the moment Granted there must be a little good lace for the yoke and sleeve bottoms, all the rest that goes into a corsage, made after the present styles, may be patched to any extent. As for silk, all that is necessary is for it to be of a rich color, for the sheen of red, blue, orange, or violet must be visible

through the covering of veiling, marquisette or chiffon. A summer foulard in black and white—since these materials wash like rags—would be Invaluable, for this combination is stylish under a veiling of any sort in any color. , The veiled waists, especially if they have three-quarter sleeves, are shown prinolpally for dressy uses, but the style is too useful for the home dressmaker to Ignore when making over old textures, and if trimmings and models are sufficiently simple, such designs are suitable for the plainest tailor gowns. The veiled bodice with lace under part, commonly begins with a complete blouse made with a high stock of an all-over lace. A plain or patterned silk, or a Persian gauze foundation, which is very stylish, will stop at the line where the jumper is to cover it and be filled in there with a stock In appropriate materials. The jumper, which is of gauzy veiling in the dress color, is the easiest thing in the world to make. The kimono model is the favorite for this over-blouse, and is fitted with one or more Gibson pleats at the shoulders, or else tucked back and front, or across the shoulders only. One strikingly effective device with such waists is a broad band of some, rich trimming going around the foundation at the bust point, and showing richly through the thin outer material. Narrow velvet ribbon, or plain satin bands, trims the white stocks and undersleeves of these bodices effectively, while the blouse itself may have quite another trimming. Persian silk and Indian cottons in a blur of rich color shape the more practical waists, those intended strictly for the plainer tailor gowns; but when these gaudy textures are veiled with something else, they at once become things for dressy use. Our illustration displays a blouse of a simple all-over lace in a rich cream, covered with a kimono jumper of king’s blue marquisette. A lace in blue and black encircles the round neck, with a stole drop at the front. The same lace edges the sleeves of the jumper and forms cuffs for the gathered undersleeves. This bodice, like all the others, is adapted .to simpler materials. If a gray dress on hand must be fitted out with a waist, use any colored silk —‘ blue, old rose, violet, green or white —for the foundation, and then get a veiling in the dress color for the top. Moire or silk in a matching color could be employed instead of the lace here used. A well-made waist in this style would be suited to a handsome tailor suit, and if liked the jumper part alone might be employed as a model for a collarless short-sleeved house effect. In fact, there is no end to the possibilities of this jumper, for it is adapted equally to plain and dressy uses.

All-Over Lace With Marquisette Jumper.