Possible Clues:

• Starts an up in material manner, so that's all right (8)
• Muslin from old widow's place, so that's all right
• New article in such fine material
• Fabric in new article fashionable, thus acceptable
• Fabric from new area, fashionable therefore acceptable
• Kind of muslin like jaconet
• That stuff has sodium in it, so it's all right at last