This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...as a rather superfluous and impertinent expense--something that "counts" up, but makes no show. The mention of a silk waist-lining will almost cause the economical home dress-maker's hair to stand on end; but the French waists are always lined with silk, or the softest of silesias, with a silk finish; and this has much ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...as a rather superfluous and impertinent expense--something that "counts" up, but makes no show. The mention of a silk waist-lining will almost cause the economical home dress-maker's hair to stand on end; but the French waists are always lined with silk, or the softest of silesias, with a silk finish; and this has much to do with their exquisite fit. "Twill," a somewhat stiff and thick cotton fabric, is the favorite lining of the ordinary dressmaker; but this does not adapt itself readily to the figure, and shows through the least thin or broken place in the outer material, while silk of the same color prevents so early a stage of shabbiness. The twilled lining costs less; but a silk dress, or even a fine wool, is not an every-day affair, and may be indulged with a silk lining. The silesia with silk finish, when sufficiently thin and soft, will answer nicely in many cases; but white linen, which is frequently used, is too stiff and unyielding. Linings, as well as all the other accessories, should be provided as carefully before the great business of cutting N the dress is entered upon as if a dress-maker by the day were coming to the house. It is a great saving of trouble and delay; for a dress, even when made by one's self, can not be treated like a piece of fancy work, and taken up and put down when one "feels like it." Unless the whole of the mind be given to it, at a stated time, the result will surely be disastrous. r Closed and even locked doors would be a wise precaution at such a momentous period as the cutting out of a dress, if one desires to wrestle with the problem alone; for pleasant conversation may cause the cutting of two backs to one front; or bits of advice (to which fallen human nature is prone) culminate in ...
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