. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. on the full form, suggesting the panier style, arenot difficult to make. There is opportunity for an almostunlimited variety of effects, and by choosing proper acces-sories, laces, buttons, fringes, etc., it is easy to suggest to the prospective customer ideas which she can adopt entirely,—and this means increased sales for each of these departments. In the four drapes shown herewith, Nos. 1, 2 and 4 were made with a 19-inch silk. No. 1 is a drape pure and simple, and shows the
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. on the full form, suggesting the panier style, arenot difficult to make. There is opportunity for an almostunlimited variety of effects, and by choosing proper acces-sories, laces, buttons, fringes, etc., it is easy to suggest to the prospective customer ideas which she can adopt entirely,—and this means increased sales for each of these departments. In the four drapes shown herewith, Nos. 1, 2 and 4 were made with a 19-inch silk. No. 1 is a drape pure and simple, and shows the panier fitted closely over the hips, and then draped away to the sides over a skirt of lace, and the end brought out to the floor and ties in a knot near the end. In No. 2 the loose panier is formed by bringing the goods across the front, pinning the selvage part away around the waist line, and allowing to drape loosely around the sides to the back. The under-side of this panier is pinned up underneath to give the overhanging effect. No. 3 was made with a double fold Ratine and is not strictly a 203. Drape 1 Pan IE R Drapes panier, but is given here as a suggestion for a skirt drapery and coat effect of this materialand also how the drape at the back of the skirt indicates the panier influence, which canbe made either on the regular half-shell form, or on one of the new full-draping forms,by using the side view. No. 4 shows a more extreme development of the panier, in whicli the side draperiesare each made in regular loops or festoons, laid in plaits at the sides. The panier, although a revival of the style of Colonial days and of the French courtof the time of Marie Antoinette, is sometimes called the basket skirt, getting its namefrom the old fashioned paniers—wicker baskets used to carry fruits, etc., on the sidesof a horse. Thus by panier skirt was meant a more or less loose drapery around the sidesof the upper part of the skirt from the front to theback. In tlio new f
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