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Julie Marat
The List sketch shows the scarf and hut combined, it in all of silver 2, and the end of the scarf va imtuoidered in grey into which
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CUSHIONS -HOME MADE BUT DISTINCTIVE.
Many women long to posrega soma of the lovely and elaborata cushions that are for those who have money to buy them. But wonderfully and fearfully made as many of these confectione scom to bo with little ingenuity and little careful buying and bargain | hunting they are not so impos- siblo of home copying as would at Brat soom to be the case.
If you examine them bit by bit it will be found that most of the effect obtained by the use of the unusual or the extraordinary: a surprising trimming of fur, a bizarro tassel, a colourful inset or a splash of gold,or a foil of black.;
It merely means that tho cushion maker at homo must be propared to do tho courageous alep, not haphazardly, of course, but of settled design and effect.
A really regal cushion of purple and gold may be made bolstor i fashion. There is now on the market a golden furnishing fabric t of wonderful depth of tone
that keeps its colour through-
and out
nover tarnishes. The same class fabric is also mado in a range of colours, so it is possible to carry out any col
aur scheme and gold.
THE DOLSTER CUSHION.
One cushion may be made in horizontal strips of the gold, each strip six inches wide and joined to its fellow with a piping of purple. This division of thoj
is utrked pour infini in a soft line. The wat hat is of a black shiny cover gives it a more shapely ap- It is a 105 xure uttle slope which is accentuated by tpearance than if the bolster- arge while fevers which one perched on the edge at the top. On the shaped cover wore made all in naitel is a hot made from blak narrain and trimmed with crise)
At each end join a one piece. mare rain. The large one is in white marocain, and is prettily trimmed strip of purple sown on in the with red kid.
opposite direction. Tho. tree odges must ho gathared up and finished off with heavy gold tas- Bule. Whore the gold and tho purple meot sewa line of imitation monkey fur, covoring the line of Bawing with some gold braid.
A round cushion of gathered shor-blue and grey taffetas has square middle insot of silver lace, but because this would oasi-for
THIS WFFES RECITE,
PINEATTIE TRIFLE.
the pineapple.
HOW TO READ FASHION ARTICLES.
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Mlle. Odelte Jacqueline is one of youngest stars on the. Parisian screen. She is only
18. But already the critics are calling her the "Mary Pick- ford of France."
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Perhaps it hasn't struck you Fut a layer of sponge cake into that there is more than one way a glare dish then a layer of reading then. Beliovo me, just pineapple (tired) cut into pieces, and a little of the syrup. Kepeat as many as there are of writing this preeese until the girth is full them. For instance, don't we all ly tarnish, and in case somcove each is mitred, and the strips fit Whip some cream ard pilu crknow the girl whose inevitable should use the cushion for its in each behind the other. the top. Dicerate with pieces cremark is "Oh, vory pretty, logitimate purpose and scratch needs a little patience to arrange daresay, if you can afford that her face on the metal, overlay them symmetrically, but when it sort of thing, but I have to think the lace with a single covering is done the effort is well worth
while... To boighten the effect of. of every sixponco-1 spend." of blue ninon.
A cover too may be made of the fun, the comer from which Just ко! And the fashion writer's aim is to help you to scraps of multi-coloured brocades. the strips start is weighted by a cut in narrow heavy tassel, and each strip is spond each to the host. The pieces are advantage. To do this, it is an strips of an inch and a-half outlined with a very fine gold and they rudiate galon. Incidentally, this also immonso help to know what is wide..
from boing made in the best houses, and worn by the most fastidious. You can then plan your pur- chases no that they will hava: distinction and will last a long) while in fashion, for it is the extreme fashions which date quickly, and these are just ther ones which tho host-dressed women will not have at any price-even the highest!
PINK CREPE FROCK.
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An effective way to use the populur morihou landing is shown on this straightline frock of petul pink crepe. It edges -the nido panels that are fitted ao an,oothly about the unist
The use of long tight sleevwa
on dinner and evening frocka
is increasing and the absence
ticeable
of elaborate 'trimming is no...
Then there is the girl who nover believes what she reads, "Oh, nonsense, I'm sure those) will never come in: perfectly hideous 1" is hor comment. Well, no one in the world knows what fashions will become the most. popular, but at the same time the fashion-writer really does have in- side information, and is able to tell you those that are to be launched by the grent dressmakers and milliners, and it is very rarely that these do not have a fair menture of success.
In direct contrast is the girl who takes herally every word in her favourite paper. "Thero ja a erize for choker rearl necklaces," · she reads. Without delay sho brermen porecreed of a porti cularly gorgeous specimen, and for the next few wooks she noti only diner and donees, but break- faste, shops, plays tennis, does a little light gardening, and probably bathes and sleeps in ohoker pearls.
Wiser than all these is tho woman who bears in mind that no newspaper article can be written for hereof alone. No writer knows your type, income or circumstances; Sun"can"bur] give you the general trend of the most exclusive, dressing, with comments prompted by libr own judgment and experience. It in
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PLEATING ISUFZSHIONABLE.
Ploatings of every kind sro very much back in tori lon. Ibla is welcome news to the hemo dressmaker, who knews that a pleated skirt in easier to bang iban a shaped one, and that it also involves far less work in the making. Pleated its differ in ond essential from plain once, in that the hem is longer. The camo)! applies to the little pleated dresses that bave actually became a feature of the season. These usually have a Billo yoke, atcut as deep as the armpits, and & pair of miniaturo clore fitting sleeves which aton well above the ellow to the straight lower line of the yoke the rest of the frock is attached, pleated into fashion. able straightness either with knife pleats, box pleats, or in- verted and box pleats alternating. An inner belt fixed. at the bip line will hold the pleats in place, ard an outer girdle may or may not cover thir, according to whother the wearer wishes to add this purely decorative note....
A simplo freek of this kind can be the foundation for many ac- cessories. One of the oasicst to' arrange is on apron tunic, made of one of the printid hanuker. chiota and mounted on a natiow girdio.
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BFADED HANDBAGS,
Beaded hardtage do not so cut of fashion, though they have recently chang- ed form. Flat, envelope- like to hogs are mode of tiny beads, usually imitating some metal, gold, silver, platinum, or broper, and they Bpured with geometrical designs carried out in bende of a lighter shade. They are held flat by means of a thin plece of
aet in whalebone
tho lining at the top and bottom, and are carried swinging from a head handle. As they are just about the size of an ordinary square envelops, they carry very little, only
change, somo handkerchief, and a few visiting carde.
WHAT WILL THE WILD WAVES SAY?.
LINGERIE STRAPS.
Some smart styles seen at a recent bathing parade.
· No smart trousseau can fail to include the dainty com- bination of pink or on hit crepc, trimmed with black chantilly lace and black ribbon. It is quite the lust word in lingerie,
FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS.
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and
TO-DAY'S BEAUTY HINT.
fashionable coiffure, Steel is a new material for hat whether shingled or no, aims at trimming The cool gloam of th is the smoothapes of a man's and chilllost of metala lends a chaim should be equally slook to three quaint little loaves which shiny. The only way of achiev- decorated the front of a hating this is by the same vigorous soon recently on the lawns at brushing that men are accustom- jod to give their hair This Chantilly.
should be done twice a day, and two or three times a week before brushing, a fow dropsf brillian- The potticcat is an article of tine or olive oil should be poured clothing that has fallen into into the palm of the band and disuso during the past years of smoothed over the hair. As narrow skirts, tube frooks and anishing touch, pollah with an wrap-arounds. This summer, old silk handkerchief: this given howevor, soos it revived in the
a beautiful lustre. form of a slip, for it is impossible: to wear one of the volle, silk #
tricot or chiffon frocks without a slip of crepe de Chine or crope Batin:
narrow
Some sow Inside the neckline shoulder straps made of banda, of their frocks, just at the A Tow women refuse to wear shoulder, soams a pair of little boulder straps of any kind, and
for you to dinoriminate, to select The annovando of lingerie ribbons of the same colour as the provide their singlets and cami-i and to adapt, and it is the woman straps, with their inconvenient frook: These silp under the soles with a strip of olasilo run who brings the kechost wits to way of appearing from beneath shoulder straps of the lingerie, through the upper home. Th bear upon doing so, and not the the neckline of the frock. is and fasten to the inside of the device, however, provokes the one, muni hot one with the largest bank account, avoided in various ways bywo frock with a couple of snap fast criticisan that.
who achieves the most complete men who study theso important gners. Others provide their suffer too much to be besotis.
Hittle detalls of their tollette, lingerie with narrow removable | fül":
AUDOMSS.
MAKING A SHOE PAD.
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Thore is nothing like a volvot pad for giving the final polish to A shop cleaning operations. The latest material for parasols piece of volret about 9 by 5 inches is suede kid. It comes in bright is large enough. It should bo gre-, blue, scarlet and champ-soamed around on the wrong sido. ague yellow. Of course, this then turned and stuffed with the "parasol" will keep off the rain revellings from an old woollan as well as the sun.
LINES AROUT- LINGERIE.
Exquisite werkmanship and fine materials in the simplest of. designs constitute the beauty of, French lingerie.
One well known
has created ADMO
designer
chumises
of fine white liner, perfect y
in simplo
cut, finished AT the ton with n'straight band of rest Valenciennes Jaco three inches wide. The shoulder strars are of white satin ribbon, The matching knickers,fallow the Fame chaste simplicity, though: ellt d'ahird of the way up the log. The edgin", of course, was of Valenciennes lace, mitred at tho corners and carefully-lot into the linen at the aldo of the knickers.
ELBOW SLEEVES. Eleovelass frocks have boon with us so long that smart women are turning with relief to the elbow- length leoves which Reveral of the best 'drons -makers-are now offeriniz. Those miseros fallow the line of the arm closely and stop just short of the albow, leaving two inches bare for the upper arm boolat,, which còn«, atitutes the smartest form for dishe
stocking. A loop for hanging up.' completes the pad which may oasily bo slipped into a new valvot cover when it becomer Roiled. .A black pad for dark shoes, and a light velvet for tan, is preferable.
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