BOATING COSTUMES.
White eerge* is being used to fashion emarb boating costumes. Theie are usually made with a plain skirt and Eton jacket, the latter.lined, and the revers faced with white moire eilk. ITancy-coloured blouses are worn with gowns of thi-s description. Dresses' of light-tinted woollen materials may be cleaned many times, while later on they can be dyed a dark colour without unpicking them, provided the seams are stitched with silk. Cotton does not take tbe dye. So that, when this precaution Is not taken, the costume has to be unpicked and fbiide afresh. . Naw serge remain? In favour for boating gowns' * .Silk; and even chiffon blouses, are oeing vforn withicoats and skirts Iα place of linen euirle;. they are, of course, more dressy in appearance, and require to be faultlessly fresh. Those who cannot afford to replace the soiled blouses with new ones constantly woald do well to substitute humbler materials, which can be washed, and which, after all, may be made just as prettily as the more expensive atuflV
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9008, 22 January 1895, Page 3
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