Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — PURELY FEMININE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PURELY FEMININE

WHEN GARMENTS HANG

BET OF SLIPS TO PROTECT DRESSES FROM DUST. . ;■ ■‘ v ' JReally Sensible Gift That Any Girt Can Make—Dimity About the Beet . Material That Can Be \ ‘» Used- •

An attractive though simple gift, ’Which a girl la fashioning herself for her grandmother, constats of a set of slips to go over dresses to protect them from dust when hanging. The materials used is dimity, as ft Is wide enough to make one width •uffldent for each slip. Were silk employed It would be necessary to have • seam through the middle—not nec- ■ essarily objectionable, but more work tn make. As many of the patterns which come in dimity are dainty and pretty, the cotton stuff suits the purpose admirably. The slip consists of one piece, two yards long. It is folded across the middle and directly in the center of the fold a circle is cut out to correspond to a neck. The best method ■of getting this correct is to cut a paper disc by laying a plate down for a pattern. When the paper is folded tn two it will make a semi-circle. This, laid on the fold of the dimity, two •freight edges being together, makes the pattern for the circle, which should be done with sharp scissors that the material shall not pull. Muslin beading, two inches wide, having slits through which to run ribbon, is cut into lengths to fit the round hole and the beading is whipped on precisely as though it were a lingerie collar. Ribbon chosen to run through and tie in a pretty bow should match In color one of the effects appearing in the dimity pattern. The ribbon should not be put in, however, until all the sewing is done. The neck completed, the two edges -of the dimity are brought evenly together and seamed, either by hand or on a machine. The raw edges across the bottom of course require hemming and then the slip is complete. It is used by putting the hook of the hanger on which the garment is suspended through the hole or neck of the Blip. The coves Is wide enough to permit of Its going easily over the waist and by Its presence dust Is prewaited from gathering on the shoul•ders. . Another slip for the same purpose Is formed by a square. It is necessary

to have two widths of dimity for this, or a half square. The raw edges are feather stitched and the place for the neck Is cut in the middle as in the first model. • .. . '' ’ For her grandmother's cases the girl has chosen a delicate heliotrope pattern, using heliotrope ribbona