. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. para-sols (as shown in thedrawing), or other goodsthat go well together or^^^- ^ are accessories. Our window, Fig. 4, was designed for use at Easter time but, of course, could be used any time of the year by leaving out the rabbits, chariot, eggs, etc. The entire layout of the window is so well done and the Easter idea is so cleverly introduced that we feel certain many American trimmers can get some good out of the from the good that you can get out of seeing different decora
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. para-sols (as shown in thedrawing), or other goodsthat go well together or^^^- ^ are accessories. Our window, Fig. 4, was designed for use at Easter time but, of course, could be used any time of the year by leaving out the rabbits, chariot, eggs, etc. The entire layout of the window is so well done and the Easter idea is so cleverly introduced that we feel certain many American trimmers can get some good out of the from the good that you can get out of seeing different decorative ideas in windpws there is the pleasure of seeing what other people are doing in your line of endeavor. To the window trimmer there is some good and much of interest in everything he sees. We show next in our illustration No. 5 a grouping of dress goods in conjunction with ar-tificial flowers. In the center is a pyramid drape finished at the top with a fan-shape cluster of puffs, in the center of which is fastened a husc bouquet of artificial flowers. This drape is flanked on either side with tall. Foreign Dhaping drapes finished at the top with small clusters of flowers. Several tall vases are also intro-duced in the -window, filled with large bouquets. Notice carefully the different are some of them that will probably be new to you. From the German paper Der Shaufenstcr we ()l)taincd the design shown in ourFig. 6. This window has a very light lattice-work tlirown the border and on to])of background, as a dec-oration. Through tliecentral arch is built aseries of three steps. Onthe lower step or plat-form is posed a waxfigure completely outfit-ted with hat, gown,gloves, purse, etc. Twotall drapes of dressgoods are shown, fin-ished at the top withhuge bouquets of flow-ers. This sort of drapewould look strange inan American window. A small table orstand is placed in onecorner and has, besidesthe vase of flowers, sucharticles as parasol and gloves thrown o
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