Show 7 ap A TT F I 1 ELLEN OSBORNS L LETT t t 0 1 I 1 new T tork 0 rk feb 25 1 I know a miso lae doctor 1 balla a id the little dressmaker dressm who dec declared 1 a red when big biff sleeves went out that he be aras in for or trouble with his nervous women but you see bee flounces have bave come com to give us back the th buoyancy and brightness that small tight bleeve evet were to destroy As cutler out ln iii calef the little drega maker stood up billows of flowered flowed about her you get nn an advantage among women when you are the only one standing and if you have in your right hind hamd ft a large laree pair of 0 scissors your position la is the th moro more ira posing As between ruffles and na drut oble lr announced decisively give five rot me ruffles roy my dear girls ellis tho the little dressmaker has a habit ot of calling everybody under 40 a girl it Is soothing anil and malcus us all tool eel that she bhe Is a wise woman drugs eh be concluded are the root ot of all illness somebody ventured that perhaps ill awse were the root ot of some gome d ark irl bugs but the little dressmaker pooh felho the 1 I shall take starry for my example I 1 you wont mind win will you dear she 1 said mid sweetly and starry who sat mit lit in a corner comer pouring over fashion plates nodded rig ns cheerily sus as it if tho the ono thing thine in lare she wonted was wa to he h lie held id UP lip as art an example of evil doing to a party of m moman ornen t starry continued the little dress maker if she h ham hi Q if she eho feels nervous she th illch lle to bromide at night if she fall tn in sleep nl at once up ill act jumps for drugs are arc like daik 0 lothia they mean incon depres slon alon if would t tah tk instead ft a bicycle or dr what whal Is more mor lit in my line a chiffon sash or a 0 all 11 dancing ruffles rhe fhe would need nn na etiore more mod medicines leines out our grandmothers in bite mu ilina and nn blue have had nerves it 1 they had tried the little dressmaker go co a bout about to houses bounce but she had broken tier her rule tor for once bi anilse the sprang rush has not begun and she aho was wae asked I 1 I 1 I 1 r za il I 1 I 1 N qa 1 L V I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 a vo 11 11 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 v I 4 I 1 I 1 j 1 il fy a A 1 lb aa I 1 2 r I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 t I 1 j I 1 X 1111 S k t I 1 OT k 1 A r k A 4 09 1110 i j I 1 i I 1 W I 1 I 1 11 t I 1 af 1 I 12 f 41 pt il 4 3 11 II I V 1 I 1 ol 01 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 r k I 1 I 1 I 1 ta ia I I 1 ea e A 1 1 I 1 I 1 Q I 1 k 0 A k I 1 AV A I 1 I 1 f t 10 I 1 11 1 L i Z I 1 I 1 I 1 fi i I 1 j 1 11 t t rl V I 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 I I 1 I 1 vt k I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 4 E 2 1 F rr 11 icv I 1 im k I 1 1 L I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 gingham and organdy for the to come by a MK family ot of girls she has known front froni thild childhood hood to ti take hold bolt d of 0 their thin gowns za Is 11 get it eh aruo r 1101 1 asked the shrimp to chanis tf the subject ul ig that blouses are arc going out or la Is it il a aim alarm the tha I 1 shrimp 11 iri IN a oling thin girl till nil care it 1 la t li I 1 no 0 said eald the little dres dmn I 1 maker who settles Bettle fl every doubt as 09 if sf Pet taltY commissioned by a divine providence you cant keep blouses if you have small email sleeves with hil hl sleeves sleeve anti and a blouse she ohe continued measuring ore off yarda of in sert bertlon lon you are independent more or atts of n lines begin on lines ilni with nith tight sleeves oves and you have hilve to continue with a close lining aalst tapering taper lne under the anna the wings we women have to have to keep up ui healthy and rood good torn tem 1 will be on tile the shirls this summer cummer thit that li Is how holy and why we a return to ru aumea flies hut but objected starry pt irry riot not unwilling to pet get even the lit time sleeves were small skirts were skintight skin tight ILI al yes yea said all the little serenely ie that was the struggle with t tho lie craze with her hand full ull 0 of bright colored velvet ribbon site she entered upon discourse in the sixties it course courne you rant rebern remember b er w we e had haa small mall sleeves alc or mido droop ln ones onea never up on the shoulders skirts were looped I 1 and ruffled in the seventies m wo a had small arn al I 1 sleeve skirts were ruffled and bunched and bustled we had tho the polon polonaise alge and the pullback pull back ugly fashions oil of 0 them but wholesome enough tho first nervous prostrate in our tow town a we was 9 a curl curiosity sity she he had ben a school teacher then oscar wilde came along alone I 1 have a picture of the Prin coto of wales ales in that amiable lady looks as an it if she nhe hall been mith ith thin clothes in a a thunder shower shoner the esthetes made mad a point of clinging draperies that sent them to private hospitals we dl did 11 not cling in this country so 40 and lankiness lankin esq struggled with bouffant effects behind the th bouffant idea succumbed somewhere before 1990 swathing draperies wrapped u us in gloom bloom for or it year or two and then to to counteract them sleeves ce sprouted skyward SIP sleeves eves and ten tennia nis and golf colt and a few ew other things havo have raised our vitality amazingly and kiven us better complexions completions complex ions why tor for the past few years m we e have worn IL a larger variety of 0 colors colon find and brighter ones now that sleeves are gone it Is on oil the bright colors and the ruffles we must n u t depend it takes a strong minded woman to wear for any lenyth length of time a black dress and keep well tarry starry looked dazed but she inquired why are skirts so tight then a aal n d getting lighter skirts skirt pronounced the little dressmaker m aker dont know their own minds mind 8 the princess gown whenever it get an inning makes dresses dressen close about the hips and trailing but the polon alc alte haq crime come back ant and that fullness behind the net find and chiffon sashes that tie at the back point in tho the same direction cotton w n III be mad ma this summer bilth th short overskirt and apt apron n draperies once we come to buniea we get all the things that belong with thern them how many ru buillen ruf fleK illen asked tho the shrimp who war wa R watt waltler lnor impatiently ito fro to my or gandie gandia the gauzy stuff on which the little dressmaker was working had immensely wide crossbars and then rias nas covered with lar large flow bau err r on a pale blue ground tut 4 one circular flounce paid ald th little decidedly you tou can have a wide one starting above the knees or a narrow one barely edging the bottom of 0 the skirt of 0 courte course if 1 you wish you can be ruffled to tho the w waitt in that case I 1 would h have ave the tha frills narrow set them a little distance from one another an dedge each wit with blui bill ribbon but better stick to the insertion the she added well have an eight pored gored skirt and run the Ins insertion with lace rims between the gores that Is new and pretty and ana will go famously with the waist which must have a yoke and front of 0 insertion over blue silk ellk with lace about the shoulder dem then with a roman homan sash so do to catch butterflies and be ba ane there wag a a plaid gingham among the good waiting attention tho the 11 allt ittie dressmaker did not this with much enthusiasm 11 All all aLthe the tire are like ilk 6 that the she c complained amr tied dolorously P normous enormous and roman stripes a and ad blocks big to bu build lid houses with id tone them down with plain or use the pe plaid for or waists only nut but as starry demurred 1 I dont suppose look any worse than tho the oth r women site she contempt contemplated a ted th the shades of red green and blue with lines of 0 sulphur aulph ur ril ill give lve you a good ed practical skirl and waist at any rate opening in front over it a preat phat ph at of 0 red fr illings white collar and cuffs and then tor for the skirt imil broad strap like bandt band of plain blue gingham on oil each side to be frilled with red and have the look of 0 holding back the draperies thero there you are simple bold OrIz original inal mischievously but not at ruffles commented starry ill ruffle all your other frocks frocke proclaimed C the little amaker and cut ore off sour there wits wn it a polon polonaise alse out before tho the day dar was over of ti bugger blue camels halt hair nobody says polona iio in yet tile hie little woman with the sc scle legore iora made announcement but coat waists with three quarter extension ete exten nalon slon below the belt are arc not much ole cle fri friendie endis and fellow citizens site she decreed straps 0 of f silk alk braid with steel buttons to orn ornament e til th front of this with more braid bra id for the skirt bottom blue the small emall dio dictator concluded lb Is the best beat of colors and a combination of three blues Is in for many women the ideal gown yoke and alcoves of powder blue lillic and prIno eq dres of navy blue wool slashed at the bottom botto in over it a silk bilk underskirt two shades I 1 left sl dark embroidery in navy blue atrid ind burnt orange to ornament the sla sla sn ili ings nobody had energy to respond to this and the little dressmaker took oft off her apron and went homo home ELLEN OSBORN all rights i how sardinian women creag the women of sardinia are described by a visitor to that island inland as aa being of 0 elegant acure and graceful croce ful carriage carr liffe with large black eyes dark hair andi brunette complexion they dress in it very much the came style as women in other cither parta of civilized europe except that there lit la not the same extreme haute haste to adopt the latest fashion he wives arid and daughtery daugh claugh tera teris of the farmers and tra tradesmen demen by the da of their co amply compensate for the simplicity of dress among the upper classes cla and sit at their religious relle loua fetes and other oilier festivals festl vals when they appear in gala dress they present a wonderful spectacle these costumes co are a sort of bamily heirloom handed down from mother to daughter and treasured vi highly as hereditary lewels jewels or ancestral portraits port ralta tho the f w hion never chartr chanfer chan fei e and instead of of feeling ashamed as of bong beng boing being ing been irk in the same name dress at two different entertainments they glory elory in its ita antiquity antl nulty and in the number of 0 ocra along on which it has haa been worn the of th the women very try creetie Cree tir I 1 I 1 in different purr parts ot of Bud lnla in dome bome districts a small black jacan bicket opan in tho the front is in worn wor n over a very h t 0 of b rig ht colored COT omil P milt ilk am abid d bro b code cada which Is loosely inwood befaro and 1 I cut rather low cheit g lre r e IT y no corsets the pett tt ts of 0 apar agh t brown b own loth vory very full and between it and tho the bodice is a sort or of neutral brou ground ind ot 0 f protruding garment can nent which by no niana marle ni ana loads adds to the tha general genera 1 beauty ot of the tha tot |