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 175 WOMAN'S DRESS Conducted by the Editress of " Fashions for All In this important section of Every Woman's Encyclopaedia every aspect of dress will be dealt with by practical and experienced writers. The history of dress from earliest times will be told, and 1 practical and useful information wil 1 be given in : Home Dressmaking Millinery Hozv to Cut Patterns Home Tailoring Lessons in Hat Trimming Methods of Self-measure- Representative Fashions How to Make a Shape ment Fancy Dress Hozv to Curl Feathers Colotir Contrasts Alteration of Clothes, etc. Flowers^ Hat-pins, Colours, etc. Boots and Shoes Furs Gloves CJioice Choice Choice How to Keep in Good Condition Hoiu to Preserve, etc. Cleanin(r, etc. Hoxv to Soften Leather, etc. Hotv to Detect Frauds i Jewellery, etc. PRACTICAL MILILSHEIRY By Mrs. ERIC PRITCHARD Continued from page 22g, Part 2 The Art o Choosing Fabrics — How to Make Bows — The Charms -of Colour Schemes- Individuality of Taste I In my last article I left the " shape " com- pleted in cloth, satin, or velvet ready for whatever trimming might be selected. Trimmings, of course, alter with different seasons of the year, and follow wild flights of fashion. We must remember that we Englishwomen have a somewhat deserved reputation for using decoration on hats with a distinctly heavy and all too lavish hand. I will commence by describing one of the most popular forms of trimming — namely, the bow. There are, at the moment of writing, many pretty and large hats trimmed with wide bows of velvet or satin, and lined with a contrasting colour, just as there are small toques adorned' with " choux," and wonderfully constructed rosettes. But bows and bow-making are quite an independent part of millinery. We must first of all choose oitr fabrics with care both iii respect to quantity as well as to quality. One of the newest ideas is to line the loops of our bows with a material known as tapestry galon — a lovely model seen in Paris had a bow made of a piece of velvet edged with a piping cord and partly lined or edged with a narrow galon of tapestry. Since this idea is fairly simple of construction and most effective, I am adopting the idea for our bow. Purchase f yard black velvet, about 21 inches wide, the usual price at West End drapers' for a good millinery velvet being 4s. ii^d. per yard. (Be careful not to get too blue a black ; the cheaper velvets err in this direction.) Buy a skein of narrow black piping cord, at i^d. The tapestry galon should be 2 inches wide, and is obtainable at IS. ofd. per yard — 3I yards will be required. 7 ins. Fig, I Fold the velvet into three longitudinal layers, cut, and leave three lengths measuring g yard by 7 inches wide, as illustrated. 22imch 1 ins. Take one length, and place the piping cord on the wrong side, inch from the edge. See Fig. 2.