Show I a. a C p i Yr E 0 FANcIES ON MAKING A FROCK THE WAY TO KEEP QUALITY OF FRESHNESS Somewhat Worn Garments Can Generally Generally Gen Gen- Be Renovated by a Few Deft Touches Touches Good Good Example In Illustration Shown The woman who wishes to keep up upa a smart appearance must be Interested eternally In dressmaking affairs whether she makes her own gowns or not This is because freshness is the tho first quality that is considered considered by fashion and so if It there is no new G o f r r h hf I S I IJ It t J Ikui h s c Showing the Way a Jumper Bodice and Wide Skirt May Be Made Over garment on hand there is always an anold anold old one which can be improved with some change or other and little freshening touches There is an astounding astounding as as- mixture of materials which Is a point for making over even a rather scant dress so with the wide skirt bands used the tunics with bibs the pretty collars and cuffs all of which may be in a different color and texture from the frock Crock Itself almost any frock may be picked to pieces s for remaking When it is only a matter of changing the style of n a dress the models of the moment would cut t over oer last summers summer's frocks and leave a surplus surplus sur sur- plus so much wider were skirts sleeves and everything else then than now In fact tact the very narrowest of or orthe the Empire styles offers chances for remodeling for since skirts are so scant and the belt line still above the normal these short d frocks may maybe maybe maybo be bo used as foundations for the prettiest prettiest prettiest pret pret- tunic effects When contemplating a change of style In a dress the sewer must first pick her old gown to pieces brush it free of threads and dust and clean and press the breadths that are to be changed A black goods either wool or soft sort silk will respond well to a good wash with soap bark which Isan is isan isan an inexpensive cleanser to be found in any drug store Silks and wools still good enough to use when faded may be dipped in a dye dyo of the same sarno color or have the tint entirely changed and where the tho dress goods is not good enough for the outside there is always the possibility of usIng using us us- ing lug it for a foundation for a thinner material One mistake the inexperienced inexperienced sewer is likely to make when remodeling an old garment Is to use a anew anew anew new material in a color so bright or delicate as to show off of more plainly the faded or otherwise used appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance of the old stuff So whenever possible it is best to combine old with withold old that old that is put two frocks together or else make use of trimmings that ha have ve been employed before If this Is not done have the new stuff black or In some color too deep for the contrast contrast con can with the old goods to be too striking This dainty and very feminine little little little lit lit- tle frock offers a way to draw a wide skirt in after atter the present close manner man ner nor while almost any Jumper bodice from tram last season might be arranged to advantage as here As pictured the little frock is of sprigged muslin in pale blue and white with a simple white lace used on the bodice and for tor forthe forthe the hobbling skirt band The tucked vest and neck and sleeve ruffles are of plain white muslin A plain goods would be as effective in this style as a flowered one and if It veiling were employed a matching or contrasting silk could be used for forthe forthe forthe the trimming The model also allows for a round or slightly trained skirt From S 8 to 10 yards of new material would be required for the design design- this in the average single width ilk J JUse Use Large Mirror Perhaps one trouble with the rank and file of persons whom one sees wearing unbecoming styles In the streets Is that they dress before small mirrors instead of at taking in their own figures before long glasses A woman who had been traveling and had been confined to the usual hotel dressing table mirror said the other day I had no Idea how unbecoming this gown was to me until I happened to look at myself In a mirror In the corridor corridor cor cor- of the hotel I was simply hor hor- rIfled Think of or my walking In the I street In a skirt that kicks out at the back at every step |