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Show I PRACTICAL DRESS HINTS TUB woman who can dreos as Rhe pleases, without counting the cost of her clothes, knows little of the thought and time th.it her less fortunate sister has to bestow upon the minor details de-tails of dress if she wishes to be smartly gowned. A white yoke, a stock collar of mm. AW Virp of Black CbllTnn Cloili LlueJ ulib Willi or Black Crci;c, fine lace or finer net. hand rucked. Is extremely ex-tremely becoming, but in these days of many furs and scarfs around the throat, remains white culy a few days. Even lo the most expensive of dressmaking establishments estab-lishments it is by no means easy to have tho collar and yoke made so that they fit to the perfection now demanded, w hile in jless competent hands the task is ft hcsv7 one. To have the yoke cleansed require i careful treatment, and sometimes it is life essary it should be taken out of the want entirely, and to put it bark again uieaM the expense of n seamstress. Fashion for once is kind to the poor, f'f she has ordetvd that this year the wliite yoke be covered with a veiling of bbi't chiffon; only the collar is left while, aoi even that is guarded by a bit of rolr ot .black moussdiin do soio around the top. I A separate guimpe and iniderslecres that can be taken out and cleaDed of laundered are far better than any yoke and collar made into the waist, but U extremely difficult to make thcin fit " j There should be the tiniest of hooks an thread eyes used 'to attach the wnist to the guimpe. The unJersleeves roust be tin-isbed tin-isbed quite opurt Iroiu the sleeve er hi" lug, attached to the urmhole of lite' vait with careful sewing. A fresh collar fl"J ( undersleeves will transform a shabby waist, and the clever woman now fiuai use for odds and eu.Ls of old hind cne broid-ry, as well as for tho fascmatiji. remnants of tine machine work If i found in all the frbe"3. j i |