Possible Clues:

• Material for dress cut out with instrument
• Fabric on instrument to perish
• A fine and slightly stiff cotton fabric
• Newspaper, say, to cease providing material
• Material making newspaper close down
• Material cut out by periodical
• A fine translucent cotton dress material with a stiff finish
• See material fade under one's eye?
• Cease to work on publication's material
• Means to cut out material for dress