Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing by Myers Annie E

Author:Myers, Annie E
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Dressmaking
Publisher: Chicago, C.H. Sergel & company
Published: 1892-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

says, "unless they have spent some time in China and Japan, realize the difficulties attendant on the selection in America and Europe of a suitable wardrobe for the peculiar cliniates of those countries. The difficulty is much enhanced by the variety of climate each of the foreign settlements offer, but a few general hints may prove useful. Generally new-comers among the ladies are brides, who bring from home such a trousseau as they would require at home, only to learn by sad experience that many of their prettiest things are useless.

In Shang-Ha'i the winters are cold, also in Yoko-ama and Kobe, where one woidd find furs agreeable. Indeed, the winters may be fairly compared with those of Baltimore and Washington in temperature. In Canton, Hong-Kong, and the south of China heavy autumn clothing only will be necessary—hardly that— more feeling of cold coming from the great dampness of the country than from the temperature. In Japan furs are always agreeable in the winter, although snow and ice are exceptions.

The spring and autumn need not be considered, as, like the dawn and twilight, Nature has omitted them from her time-table.

For summer a number of washable lawns, muslins, nainsooks, or batistes and ginghams, simply made and without linings, are the best. Any dress that can not be done up by the home laundress must be omitted, unless the lady is willing to do it herself; and for the

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