Show borne home dressmaking and home millinery I 1 em to be becoming more and more bommon some attribute this to the extravagant trava gant prices asked by the best known dressmaking establishments others to the increasing facilities through the papers and recently established dressmaking classes for acquiring scientific knowl edge of how garments should be mada be that as it may every woman of th middle class at least can count among her friends several who cut and their own gowns and these same are apt to be very becomingly dressed the art exchanges seeing the need and demand for a course of practical demonstrations in dressmaking last winter engaged a competent dressmaker to give lessons in cutting and fitting about the baue methods were employed as were eo successful at pratts institute the only difference being that the classes are smaller being limited to a certain number the woman manager of a new york city exchange told mo she was surprised to see that wealthy ladies took advantage of the opportunity thus afforded just the came in brooklyn many of those attending pratt are women who can afford to pay to have their dresses made but find it pleasanter plea santer and more convenient to be able to do the work themselves homemade dressea affect the family economy as much EB homemade bread A woman who has been in the habit of ordering the kind of a dress bhe de aired at a big establishment without any of tha tromble of selecting material lin aggs trimmings and was rather shocked herself recently when the bill fora plain black brilliantine traveling dress was found to be eighty dollars she was still farther shocked when she looked into the matter to discover that the materials could not at the most have cost over fifteen dollars and might have been procured for ten dollars thero are plenty of women however who prefer to pay a big sum like this and have the satisfaction of knowing that a certain name is printed on a bit of black satin on the inside but there are also plenty of others who do not care a fig for the printed tag and who enjoy getting up their gowns just as cheaply as possible brooklyn eagle |