Used in Millions of Homes — ao Years the Star laid
skirt for the summer, and Mrs? Cleveland
will wear the. stiffening later, although she
very properly refused to lead the innova
tion. So also will the princess of Wales,
who returned to the Birmingham dress
makers all the gowns they hud prepared for
her Riviera trip, to have the horse hair
taken out. The princess is very keen af
ter fashion, and if there is an approved
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angle in Paris she is sure to have it, thouga
she does want the name of patronizing an
extreme.
• Hie New Cuts.
There are many ways of cutting the new
skirt, but they all have the same end in
view—a small top ami a wide bottom, with
a very round effect, on the model of the
umbrella.'
As now being made at Paris, this skirt
when doubled and laid flat has the lines of
back and front at right angles, and the
edge describes a quarter circle, or rather
a quarter ellipse, since the back is some
what longer than tin 1 front. The angle at
the middle of this quadrant is hollowed out
for the waist.
When the cloth is wide enough its width
is taken for the length of. the skirt in front,
and there is a seam only in the back. Tiiis
back seam is straight, and the cloth falls
diagonally only on the sides.
When the cloth is narrow many gores
are used. Ati approved pattern for narrow
cloth is in seven pieces; a front slightly
gored, and three pieces on each side, leav
ing a gored seam to come in the back.
