Tt is the Little Things that Count—Specially in Clothes Looking back, a long way back, upon my childhood I seem to Hear the sound of many voices, iny in the accents of' govern-cases, aunt, grandmothers and mother: "Remember, my dear, is the little things that make the difference." The sayings of relatives and intimates are easy to disregard until the hard-earn-fed experience of later years brings you up with the though, why, that was what they were always telling me," and then you you had believed your eldors a little sooner.
For it is' the same thing that the "modistes and the. fashion magazines are dinning into our in, the dictum that we upon our careful of details." ally 1 might remark employing Chinese tailors seems only a wilder form of gambling. Not being able to- demons! obtained, the results are problem-convincingly the effect I desire atic. If' we lose we squander materials as well og the cost of making ' but if we win (and stranger things have happened), Oh! the mad esultation. ligtlamens=1 have often, on: ered whether you yead the new papers, and hive concluded tha perhaps your vision is like mine, selective, and that your blind spot may cover things you do not wish to sce. Pardon me, there-Tore, if I touch-a, sore spot in bringing. to. your notice The fact that. the. prompt. comers. tothe Bheatro get rather annoyed of being walked-over, by. the unco" late the. will not, even, sit.or, atend fo the rear: until: the scene. is over.
It is the "little more and how mucly it #feans" particularly in dealing with tailored suits. might expect the tailored vogue fo remain stationary, and so per-"it does, except for the details—oh, those little details that spoil the effect! The new shoud-ers, Tunderstand, are an example. You must not hate m drop-shawld er nor yet-a normal armhole, you wish anything highly di Tve—just. a cross between the two. This. gives. slightly. elongreally is rather horrid'to miss; Ated.cffect.,. The wnbelted. iroak,, 't00, calls for lodeeness under the a7m, a very necessary. point, ince the aim is to give the appearance of slit hi Jcreasing the width at the shoulders and under the arms.
The girdle, whether seem or not, mast always influence the gown—that is, whether only a part of it appear in the disposition of the Jgathers over the hip, as a buckle, or the "heading of the apron panel, there must be something to reassure one that it was not overlocked in designing the frock,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.