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The adaptation of. smocking to children'sfrocks, and to the shoulder parts of ladies tlresscs has made feather - stitch ornament fashionable on many garments. Not alone on the bodice* of dresses but on the skirt* is this ornamental needlework introduced. The dies* seams are joined by a row of Hat stitching on the right side in silk, done in the machine. 7 The seam is then turned, pressed on the wrong- side, the right turned out again, and a vow of feather ornament stitched on with embroidery silk to match the material.Skirts are made of two. shades of thesame colour, sometimes in the same material, at other times in *itk and wool, velvet anti wool, or brocln* and plain. The hand work, must le inthe less obtrusive colour of the two breadths. The bodice, likewise, is trimmed in a similar manner, but the -embroidery is added to various parts it lias hitherto been the custom to leave quite plain. For instance, on the sleeve, when one of the shades is used for a turned back cuff a row of the herringbone at the extreme edge so far intrenches on the sleeve proper as to fasten the cuff securely down, the stitches to the right being caught on the cuffanti those to the left on the sleeve. The vestfront i* outlined also with a^ row of thesame stitching, and, what is a greater novelty, the edge of the basque is finished with a row of the same feather stitch.All workers know that there are many varieties(if tl Uuf fnr drMQ SPAIUS
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London Mid Surrey Times and General Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 22, 1887
Page 6
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