. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. windows should be veritable fashionplates, showing the style tendencies in advance of the season, somewhat on the same order as regular fashion journals. Tlie up-to-date trimmer pays asmuch attention to the changing stylesas he does to bringing out cleverbackground designs. You can read-^^^ ily understand how easily spoiled a?^ beautiful background would be ifpasse styles were shown in the win-dows. In drapes 4 and 5 we show stylesthat embody the Empire and Prin-cess modes, influenced so
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. windows should be veritable fashionplates, showing the style tendencies in advance of the season, somewhat on the same order as regular fashion journals. Tlie up-to-date trimmer pays asmuch attention to the changing stylesas he does to bringing out cleverbackground designs. You can read-^^^ ily understand how easily spoiled a?^ beautiful background would be ifpasse styles were shown in the win-dows. In drapes 4 and 5 we show stylesthat embody the Empire and Prin-cess modes, influenced somewhat bythe Greek influence. The fashionlines in these styles are long andclinging, not showing much of thewaist line or hips. This effect is pro-duced by starting the waist line, es-pecially in the back, four or fiveinches above the regular waist line,and letting the goods drop loosely,just touching the hips and then drop-ping to the floor in long, gracefulfolds. The gowns of this style in some cases are several inches longer than measure. This extra s on the floor and in s the skirt closelv about. Draping on Forms the Hmlis. and in reposefalls in Ijrokon folds onthe floor. This is apretty idea to bring outin your draping of theform, and is shown inour illustrations. Certain styles arehcst produced in certainmaterials. For instance,the styles of these drapescall for soft materialsthat will hang in long,soft folds and give prettygraceful lines. Suchgoods as rough finishand liberty silks, messa-lines and arevery good. The good trimmerknows just as soon as hetouches a piece of goodshow it should be drapedto bring out its individ-ual beauty and charac-teristics. He would notthink of taking a heavytaffeta and try to pro-duce a tight-fittingprincess drape, or pro-
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