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Show SUITS FOR SPRING Jersey Cloth Suggested as Quite Satisfactory Material. Any Tailor or thu Clever and Careful Home Dressmaker Can Easily Give Satisfaction. The suit shown In the sketch is made of a wool fabric jersey cloth is suggested as (in excellent selection embroidered and stitched In a contrasting con-trasting color and with a smart vest af white satin. This suit could be made by any tailor or a clever and careful home dressmaker, as It is not of t lie fitted type, and its charm is due to careful attention to tailoring and finish." It is a slipover coat, the vest opening in the center front making this possible, and if made of a good quality of wool jersey cloth no lining Is necessary. Very cheap wool jersey cloth has the unfortunate tendency to stretch In all directions, so that unless a coat of it is lined It usually sags very quickly. quick-ly. It Is not difficult to see that the money saved on the material, when a cheap grade Is selected, Is overbalanced overbal-anced by the lining required, and never under any circumstances will the suit be as smart as though a good, firmly knitted fabric had been selected. High-grade garments and fewer of them, if necessary, is a good general rule for any woman. The skirt of the suit shown in the sketch is narrow. A width of one and a half to one and three-quarters yards is a safe general rule for skirts u 1 Modish and Unusual Suit for Spring. this season. It may be stitched at the edge to match the coat. The skirt fastens fas-tens at the side front, and is plain front and back with a trilling fullness let in at either side. This design might be developed in silk jersey, or It might be made tip in dark-colored satin embroidered in wool thread and with white vest of satin or faille silk. FAop jacket suits are being strongly featured, but they are not becoming to all figures, and as with all novelties when first introduced, or when revived after several seasons of rest, there is great danger of the style being overdone. |