Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . eelaborately trimmed. The breaking of bones over the hips atthe waist-line, is remedied, in some corsets,by having the cords or bones arrangedacross, instead of up and down; while inothers, instead of bone, a cording is madeof coraline, which does not break, and isflexible, and yet furnishes sufficient supportto the wearer. One of our home authorities in mattersof style, describes the morning corset asbeing from nine to ten inches deep, with avery few whalebones, which give a goodfigure, without either pressing the body orhindering the movements in the slig
Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . eelaborately trimmed. The breaking of bones over the hips atthe waist-line, is remedied, in some corsets,by having the cords or bones arrangedacross, instead of up and down; while inothers, instead of bone, a cording is madeof coraline, which does not break, and isflexible, and yet furnishes sufficient supportto the wearer. One of our home authorities in mattersof style, describes the morning corset asbeing from nine to ten inches deep, with avery few whalebones, which give a goodfigure, without either pressing the body orhindering the movements in the slightestdegree. A winter corset is made of white or grayjean, with supports of whalebones andsteels, and must be perfect-fitting. Thiscorset is laced in the back, and secured byhooks in front. Still another style of corset is short infront, deep cut over the hips, and supportsthe body without pressure; this is much infavor with lady horseback riders. In mak-ing these corsets, jean or coutil is thefavored fabric. M. E. L. CHAIR The beautiful design for a chair cushionhere given, is to be worked in gay em-broidery on neutral-tinted cloth or felt. Several varieties of long stitches areemployed ; as well as satin and double strand of crewel is used to outlinethe design, and is caught down with threestrands of filoselle silk of the same color asthe crewel, or a shade lighter. The colors must be chosen according tothe taste of the embroiderer; nevertheless,we trust a few suggestions will be foundpractically useful to our readers. Theportions of the design in satin-stitch arealternately brown, light blue, and rich winecolor; all outlined in stem-stitch of paleblue. In the large flower-like figure, theouter row of pointed oudine work, is deepolive, the second outline row is crimson ;while the shorter stitches between theserows are of light blue and light brown; andthe long, bag-like stitches between thesatin stitching and second outline row, areof gold and straw col
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