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This Is the white outing girl; and If she prefers a pale pink waist, or a light blue one of cheviot, cotton, or heavy lawn, it takes nothing away from her smartness. The white skirt with the colored shirt will be worn not a little this Eummer; and It Is pleasant to learn that the very pretty and always much admired Miss Pauline Astor wears such a skirt, with a colored waist. This is her rig for afternoons at Cliveden, that country estate upon the Thames, where the garden parties are given to the royal princesses, and where smart gowns are swn, And, by the way, how stupid it is for young people in London now. What with the King coming out against "the young girl in society": what with the daughters of the King all grown up and married or In a hopeless state of unmarriedness: what with the little ones of the Wales family too small to be out of the nur- sery; and no young princesses anywhere available, it Is Indeed a season when the young girl in London can pity herself profoundly. Yet she manages to have a good time. Miss Astor wears a white suit, when in London, in ctamine. Etamine is such a very fashionable goods this year, and ia capable of such a variety of treatment. If you want It made up with ruffles and lace, as a summer dress, then all right. There are plenty of models. But it is so much smarter to tailor It. A tailored etamine was made upon the long sheath lines just as plain as can be. But there were panels of stitched etamine put on down each side of the' skirt. Each four inches wide, each stitched along the edge, each used as a wide strapping. Tha stuff was doubled so that it appeared more like a panel of cloth, solid, than one of open texture. Can Tou Wear White P There is a white zibiline. very light in weight, but one must not invejn in it un- less one has many gowns. Those white tloth dresses are apt to prove a sr.are for the girl who must be economical. They so soon soil, and when soiled they are soon gone completely. There are two. classes of women who took very well in white. One is the big fat woman, with plenty of figure. This woman finds in white a merciful friend, softening her outlines and making her appear graceful. The other woman is the very email woman, she whom one calls petite. White ?ives her height and dignity and assists lier in the matter of a "presence." It also gives her that fairy like look which is the privilege of the small woman. The White Outing Girl. 1.N spite of the fact that cold winds are 6till blowing the ambitious and beauty loving woman insists on tell- ing us that summer is here. She rushes the season, this pretty creature, and in May she shows us June, and in June she forces July and August vpon us. Anything for a change Is her motto in dress, and no matter how much ihfc change may cost her. in time, in money, and In personal wear and tear,, she must have it. There is a legend that no woman is ever happy until she has worn a white dress. Through the whole of the gentle spring she awaits the day when she can put It on; and, when, in the first blush of flowering summer, she actually does den it and sally forth, her joy Is com- plete. A white dress, the perfectly smart pedestrian one. consists of a skirt of white duck or drill, and a white shirt waist. It is quite swell to wear a hat crowned with colored flowers with this, and tan gloves. Self-Trimmed Goods. The white crepe goods will always be liked because they make up so dreaslly. In selecting there are many pretty and new fabrics from which to choose. The white cotton goods open up a great field and the lace stripes, the linen stripes, the satin stripes and the beautiful little stamped white figures, all make variety. economy if she have small pairs of shoes to buy and as many complete summer outfits. To the economical woman, there- fore, a word— wear white! cotton linings, just as one would with a.iy other gown; but these linings do not show up well and they add nothing to the beauty of the dress. it you cannot aftord to line well, then do not get , a transparent dress, so "the modistes adviser and they send their cus- tomers back to exchange dress patterns White, since it is ibfe color of Bunuherj Js the one to bo advised to all who would dress wel!. There Is something about it which makes it ever appropriate and one does not wonder that public women, like Mrs". Roosevelt and ihe wom^n of the Cabinet, choose while In preference to yellow or grtmn or even turquoise blue. Airs. Roosevelt is an econonjical dresser. Her famous pronunclamento. in favor of dressing en $300 a year, started an inter- national controversy. She chooses the pure color because it js becoming and be- cause !t is cheap. No woman not the wife oJ' a millionaire can neglect matters of jo trim them there are very neat hem fctUchinss that can be bought by the yard; and there are goods that come with a little cording running through them. It looked at the first of the' season as 1 hough none but the martyrs and the mil- lionaires could enter into the fashionable worjd. All gowns were so elaborately em- broidered, so intricately appliqued with lace, so profusely tucked and so wonder- fully squared eff, with the insets made out of the daintiest linen bits, that it seemed as though a woman's whole time would be spent upon the making of one gown. To achieve even one creation it The question of a lining is a perplexing one to the woman 'who' dresses in whltp. tor the lining costs more than the gown ' ar>d to line a 15-cent cotton means some- thing when viewed from the standpoint of the pecketbook. .As for the lining, it is a matter that cannot be ignored. All or very nearly all of the summer goods are transparent and the lining Is distinctly visible, painfully so .sometimes. Of course it is possible to use the plain . While wh'itc is made up with all sim- plicity, it is a sort of studied simplicity, which is by no means plainness.. , The dee'i flounce around the foot is in plain goods tucked at the top and released at the botom to make, the necessary flare and there are little bands of goods at the head of the flounce with hemstitching along each band. Lace is used more elaborately in some cases, than it need be. There is a wide girdle of it, pointed top and bottom, -front and back. The neck shows a band of lace and 'ti lace point comes down to the bust. The sleeves are finished with an elbow puff -with a band of lace at each side of the puff. ! , •: ¦'• Lace Trimmings. The daintiest of summer gowns is made from a material that is _a pale yellow, the color of old lace. It has a cording running through it and is soft and crepey. At wide intervals there is a little puff of the goods. All this is in the material it- self. It requires no other trimming ex- cept the little bit of lace, which goes on all things. One lovely bit of goods, just a plain white cotton, .costing not much, shows tiny rows of pin tucking with machine hemstitching set inbetween the group of tucks. Such a material is already trimmed and Is all ready to be made up into a waist. looked as if she would have to work inter- minably week in and week out. But all perplexities disappear before the softening fingers of Time, and so with the dress perplexity. As soon as the-ac- tual' summer goods came in and were spread out upon the counters, one began to notice the abundance and beauty of the machine-made fabrics. that show the lining too plainly. But the prettiest gowns for the house and many of the best gowns for the street do "show through," and the lining ques- tion must be tackled boldly. The Lining Question. Here Is the advice of a very fashionable dressmaker, who designs and executes for the wives of millionaires: "Ibegin at the very beginning," says she, "and make my linings first." "Mrs. A," mentioning the wife of a fa- mous multi-millionaire, "will noFbuy silk linings, and one do«s not blame her, for in the summer they are not durable, and a substitute that looks just as well must be provided. "For this woman and for many others among my patrons I make very stylish and wholly beautiful linings of the finest of lawn. The waist is low in the neck and is made like a corset cover, sleeve- less. It is elaborately trimmed with lace and would do for an evening waist. It cashes nicely and is made separate from the gown< | "For the skirt I make not. a petticoat, but a perfect fitting, perfect hanging dress skirt. It has its flounce, which is very full, and it has its sweep length. It would do very well indeed for a gown. "When the dress is to be put on the lining is first donned and hooked up, the ekirt is now put on and hooked. Then the dress is put on, bodice and skirt. "A per- fect fit is secured and the effect is lovely. "Imake up linings in all colors of tha finest of lawn and in wash mull, and In the thin goods, following always ona mcdel, and my patrons have four and six of them and often more, according to the size of the wardrobe. "The secret is in making both waist and skirt so that they look like gowns, not like corset cover and petticoat. My patrons could attend a dinner In a lining. Of that I am positive." The Ethereal Gown. The ethereal girl is the one who dresses in the fairy goods. These come delicately soft and thin, yet crisp, and they are de- signed for the making of afternoon and \ piazza, gowns. There is quite a fad now for the gown that is stiff and starchy, not soft and clinging, and the mulls and linens seem designed for this sort of treatment. While the esthetic and artistic gown— the "slinky" one, that twists around one's feet and gives one height—Is In fashion, it is undoubtedly true that tha crisp, sheer one is also In style, and tha after- noon maiden can see them both and tak« her choice. It is generally agreed among those who make dress and its designing a life study that the stiff, crisp linen and the delight- fully perky lawn, with Its starched effect, are both meant more for country wear! for hotel piazzas, when one can keep one's self in picture attitudes, than for the street. These little dresses are trimmed with Valenciennes usually, or with the softest and finest of summer laces, and are made with the lace set in the skirt and with lace set in the. waist. There is usually a baby-like yoke upon such a waist, and this is completed with a juvenile ruffle ot lace. Around the foot is a dear, crisp lit- tle flounce.. The elbow sleeves are fin- ished with a. little lace ruffle. ! Miss Simplicity will dross in white this cummer, with the white waist buttoning down the back; she will have a yoke, bor- dered with a lace ruffle, and her stock will be little more than a lawn band with lace along each edge. Her skirt will be very simple and rather full. It will ba finished with a very fluffy little lace flounce. And she will wear a sash. The Home Dressmaker. Itis a fine summer for the woman who wants to do her own dressmaking, for In the newest of dress fabrics are seen those that have lace set in, after the most dell- cate ways. There are the mulls— though they are a little bit expensive— that have really nice laco set in to form a sort of design, large irregular diamonds and little swirls of lace. You have to pay the price but think, of doing the work yourself! The foulard asserts itself summer after summer, and you fall a victim, though you don't know why. Foulard is never a ver\- dressy goods, and it is never very cheap. But it is, oh! so very ladylike. In a summer foulard one can face the world if it is made up prettily. / There ' are foulards and foulards and many ways of making them. A certain elegant importing establish- ment of Gotham makes a specialty of them. They are in Chinese blue, old cold tobacco brown, navy blue, black, and in many shades of green, making a gre'at variety. All show the figure upon a white ground, or the white figure upon a col- ored ground— tht; ; unmjstakable foulard sijjn. AHundred Dollar Foulard. These gowns are beautifully made, and none costs less than $100. It is ahnost a commentary upon the beauty ot the gowr,3 when you know that the" firm has difficulty in filling its orders at 5190 each Now, here is a $100 foulard, just such a one as was purchased by Mrs. -Clarence Mackay— and perhaps the very same one: The foundation was in two shades of tan, light tan pebbled on a deeper tan . ground. Green clover leaves connected by The Very Large Hat. The large hat. meanwhile, la enjoying an unrivaled popularity. It is big and it sets upon the hair in certain approved ways. It must tilt a little, and probably there is a bow at the back; that seems to be necessary. The Lord Kitchener hat has its boa. It is in white chiffen. while the top is startling in the intensity of its brilliant red flowers. They are large and very red, its leaves are large and very green. It used tu be thought not nice to v/ear a brilliant hat in the street, ami women of the best taste sought the black hnt^ with its ribbons and plumes and itsr rhlnestoiie ornaments. But this season you see hats made all of glaring red geraniums, and you see them built cf violets very bold in hue and of pansles that are not at all shrinking but that force themselves in all their color, upon you. If a "loud" hat Is becoming to you, by ail means wear one, for it will be in good taste, sanctioned by the best dressers in the world who put on their flower gar- dens and sally forth complacently. The true boa of summer is built of very thin goods, chiffon preferred, with silk muslin running a close second. It i3 dotted with silk lozenges, and it is fin- ished along the edge, with the tiniest of little ribbon ruffles. One can spend a great deal of time and some money on this summer boa and be •well repaid in the matter of looljs. The length just bow is to the waist, and the boa must surely match the hat. Falling this, it should be in white, made of white silk muslin and little satin ribbens. There are loves of boas, charming enough to grace any occasion and any gown. It is just the time of year when one ia winding up one's preparations for the summer. One sees many things that have been left unbought. Prices are down and the temptation to purchase is great. It is a great compliment to our native wares that American women are buylne, their goods in this country, and even jw^ the ,vast numbers that have gone ov e f this/ year for the coronation very few nav* made any plans for bringing home a wardrobe. Uncle Sam's clothes are good enough for them. ' Stout women find this smooth front a positive godsend. And again is the llttla woman suited, for, with the plain, softly trimmed front, guiltless of button or seam, she becomes positively babyish. There is something in her petite pretti- ness which takes at once to the waist that buttons down the back. So It is well to compromise with one's friends and one's family, and to make arrange- ments to be buttoned up with regularity and care. " The front forms a fine field for the dU- play of jewelry, and at a luncheon, very dressy one, to introduce a muaicaih relative of Somebody-or-Other to society, the ladies looked as though decorated with all the orders of the United King- dom. There Is always the locket which hangs from a slender invisible chain, and there ia the dangle which hangs from Its long chain. Lovely sets of pins coma now, four beautiful, clear pearl ones, looking Ilka mother-of-pearl and a. large oval pin to match. AH these are for the front of tha seamless waist and are to outline tha yoke and trim it. They are set along at intervals, with the big one In the middle. The big hat grows bigger and tha little hat grows smaller as the season warms. The latter is for matinee and for very nice reception occasions and for special events. But it can hardly be called a street hat. Indeed, many do not own tha tiny little hat; and really draw no medi- um between the big hat and none. at all. For a tiny hat, if wear one they must, women compromise upon a coiffure or- nament which consists of a feather, an aigrette, a few gems and a bow of vel- vet ribbon, the whole bearing a wavy look as though it were a thing of air. Everything is done to add to the light- ness of the hair ornamented, to Its fly- ing" qualities, so to speak. The orna- ments are perched on spirals that they may dence and the flowers are attached to wiry stems to make them sway; tha aigrette- floats, from very lightness, and the ribbons are perched in very perky lit- tle wavs. The Closed Front. Many of the handsomest new gowns are closed in the back and this style is becoming to all. It is youthful and graceful, and the fact that it is a nuis- ance is the only argument against it. .Many o'f ihe s.ik Dodices axe made witn. the postillion back. But for this it is al- most as well to make the tails of silk to match the gown, and attach them to a belt to form a postillion belt.- Then ona need not always wear the little rear tabs. That they are becoming there is no doubt and that they give height and slexx- derness is undisputed. Yet it is pleasant to be able to do without them. The woman who studies the fashions and designs her own gowns is as a rula the woman who gets along on a cloth in the spring, a summer siik, a little blazer coat, a few skirts and as many shirt waists as she can get. It is well witn such a wararobe to have each garment made along the conventional lines in- stead of trying a fashionable extreme. The rurHed skirt, gather*^ \>ifvthe band, the "tub" skirt it has been nicunamed. may be here next winter. It was o*ica fashionable in the ballroom and may ba again; but for one's summer silk It is not well to be too progressive unless one has a dress or two to spare. There are Eugene skirts creeping lnt© the fashionable shops, and llttlo glimpses of the Eugenie modes are given now and then. But the woman wno wants to fcw» on the safe side will not. just yet. ruf.I'i her skirt to the top, nor will she make it. very full and round. There is one model to which Dum Fashion is faithful. The plain, dose-fit- ting skirt with the foot flounce. True, she varies the flounce and makes It a Spanish ruffle, deeper In the back, or ah* points it along tho top. or aha side plaits It, or she takes It and sets a fluffy ruf- fle under it. But on all the new gowns you will see this volante, or on so many of them. ¦ Dame Fashion Faithful. Those who keep up tha pretty practice of paying calls each summer before going Into the country can Invest in one of the summer silks and make Itup convention- ally. Poulard has been called the church grown. So It Is, and the summer calling dress, and certainly the one for coolness and comfort. It wears well, does not muss, and Is not apt to look rundown until it is all worn to rags. If you do not care to go quite so high— and there are those who would look at $100 a Ions time before spending it on on« foulard—there are Just as pretty things with lace and velvet, all done along faah- ionable lines, but Involving not much labor nor much fine lace. The waist had a yoke and stock of chif- fon, with black velvet running through th« ¦tock, and thers were applications of duchess upon the vest and at the top of the sleeves. Beautiful tmdersleeves. trimmed with lace, completed tho gowir> There was a black velvet sash. I Such a dress as this, counting the eosft of the goods, of the lace, of the velvet and of the time to make It. was worth, the money. There was a foot flounce which grew very wide in the middle of the back; and heading this foot flounce, there was an application of beautiful duchess lace wit,h the foulard cut out underneath. Parts' of the lace were lined with black velvet. The hips have application of duchess with the foulard cut out in the same man- ner, and black velvet was set under here and there. In little stray patches. stems were scattered all over the mate- rial. THE SUNDAY CAliL. 2 THE WHITE COWN IS NOW THE FAD In spite of occasional blasts the smart white duck, the gauzy afternoon gown and the handy and ever-ready foulard are In our midst—Why Mrs. Boosevelt dresses in white. What Pauline Astor and other Anglo-American beauties ara ¦wearing—How to get up your gown to look as though itcost one hundred dollars—Cheating the public i:i matters of lace and summer silk.

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Page 1: 2 CAliL. THE WHITE · 2017-12-17 · This Is the white outing girl;and If she prefers a pale pink waist, or a light blue one of cheviot, cotton, or heavy lawn, ittakes nothing away

This Is the white outing girl; and Ifshe prefers a pale pink waist, or a light

blue one of cheviot, cotton, or heavylawn, it takes nothing away from hersmartness. The white skirt with thecolored shirt will be worn not a littlethis Eummer; and ItIs pleasant to learnthat the very pretty and always muchadmired Miss Pauline Astor wears sucha skirt, with a colored waist. This isher rig for afternoons at Cliveden, thatcountry estate upon the Thames, wherethe garden parties are given to the royalprincesses, and where smart gowns areswn,

And, by the way, how stupid it is foryoung people in London now. What withthe King coming out against "the younggirl in society": what with the daughtersof the King all grown up and marriedor Ina hopeless state of unmarriedness:what with the little ones of the Walesfamily too small to be out of the nur-sery; and no young princesses anywhereavailable, it Is Indeed a season when theyoung girl in London can pity herselfprofoundly.

Yet she manages to have a good time.Miss Astor wears a white suit, when inLondon, in ctamine. Etamine is such avery fashionable goods this year, and iacapable of such a variety of treatment.If you want Itmade up with ruffles andlace, as a summer dress, then all right.There are plenty of models. But it isso much smarter to tailor It.

A tailored etamine was made upon thelong sheath lines just as plain as can be.But there were panels of stitched etamineput on down each side of the' skirt. Eachfour inches wide, each stitched along theedge, each used as a wide strapping. Thastuff was doubled so that it appearedmore like a panel of cloth, solid, than oneof open texture.

Can Tou Wear White PThere is a white zibiline. very lightin

weight, but one must not invejn in it un-less one has many gowns. Those whitetloth dresses are apt to prove a sr.are forthe girl who must be economical. Theyso soon soil, and when soiled they aresoon gone completely.

There are two. classes of women whotook very well in white. One is the bigfat woman, with plenty of figure. Thiswoman finds in white a merciful friend,softening her outlines and making herappear graceful.

The other woman is the very emailwoman, she whom one calls petite. White?ives her height and dignity and assistslier in the matter of a "presence." Italsogives her that fairy like look which is theprivilege of the small woman.

The White Outing Girl.

1.Nspite of the fact that cold winds

are 6till blowing the ambitious andbeauty loving woman insists on tell-ing us that summer is here.

She rushes the season, this prettycreature, and in May she shows us June,

and in June she forces July and August

vpon us. Anything for a change Is hermotto in dress, and no matter how muchihfc change may cost her. in time, inmoney, and In personal wear and tear,,

she must have it.There is a legend that no woman is

ever happy until she has worn a whitedress. Through the whole of the gentlespring she awaits the day when she canput Iton; and, when, in the first blushof flowering summer, she actually doesden it and sally forth, her joy Is com-plete.

A white dress, the perfectly smartpedestrian one. consists of a skirt ofwhite duck or drill, and a white shirtwaist. It is quite swell to wear a hat

crowned with colored flowers with this,

and tan gloves.

Self-Trimmed Goods.The white crepe goods will always be

liked because they make up so dreaslly.

In selecting there are many pretty andnew fabrics from which to choose. Thewhite cotton goods open up a great fieldand the lace stripes, the linen stripes, thesatin stripes and the beautiful littlestamped white figures, all make variety.

economy if she have small pairs of shoesto buy and as many complete summeroutfits. To the economical woman, there-fore, a word—wear white!

cotton linings, just as one would with a.iyother gown; but these liningsdo not showup well and they add nothing to thebeauty of the dress.

it you cannot aftord to line well, then donot get , a transparent dress, so "themodistes adviser and they send their cus-tomers back to exchange dress patterns

White, since it is ibfe color of BunuherjJs the one to bo advised to all who woulddress wel!. There Is something about itwhich makes it ever appropriate and onedoes not wonder that public women, likeMrs". Roosevelt and ihe wom^n of theCabinet, choose while In preference toyellow or grtmn or even turquoise blue.

Airs. Roosevelt is an econonjical dresser.Her famous pronunclamento. in favor ofdressing en $300 a year, started an inter-national controversy. She chooses thepure color because it js becoming and be-cause !tis cheap. No woman not the wifeoJ' a millionaire can neglect matters of

jo trim them there are very neat hemfctUchinss that can be bought by theyard; and there are goods that come witha little cording running through them.It looked at the first of the' season as

1hough none but the martyrs and the mil-lionaires could enter into the fashionableworjd. Allgowns were so elaborately em-broidered, so intricately appliqued withlace, so profusely tucked and so wonder-fully squared eff, with the insets madeout of the daintiest linen bits, that itseemed as though a woman's whole timewould be spent upon the making of onegown. To achieve even one creation it

The question of a lining is a perplexingone to the woman 'who' dresses in whltp.tor the lining costs more than the gown

'

ar>d to line a 15-cent cotton means some-thing when viewed from the standpoint ofthe pecketbook..As for the lining, it is a matter thatcannot be ignored. Allor very nearly allof the summer goods are transparent andthe lining Is distinctly visible, painfullyso .sometimes.

Of course it is possible to use the plain .

While wh'itc is made up with all sim-plicity,it is a sort of studied simplicity,which is by no means plainness.. ,

The dee'i flounce around the foot is inplaingoods tucked at the top and releasedat the botom to make, the necessary flareand there are little bands of goods at thehead of the flounce with hemstitchingalong each band.

Lace is used more elaborately in somecases, than it need be. There is a widegirdle of it,pointed top and bottom, -frontand back. The neck shows a band of laceand 'ti lace point comes down to the bust.The sleeves are finished with an elbowpuff -with a band of lace at each side ofthe puff. !,

• •: ¦'•

Lace Trimmings.

The daintiest of summer gowns is madefrom a material that is _a pale yellow,the color of old lace. It has a cordingrunning through it and is soft and crepey.At wide intervals there is a little puff ofthe goods. All this is in the material it-self. It requires no other trimming ex-cept the little bit of lace, which goes onall things.

One lovely bit of goods, just a plainwhite cotton, .costing not much, showstiny rows of pin tucking with machinehemstitching set inbetween the group oftucks. Such a material is alreadytrimmed and Is all ready to be made upinto a waist.

looked as if she would have to work inter-minably week in and week out.

But allperplexities disappear before thesoftening fingers of Time, and so withthe dress perplexity. As soon as the-ac-tual' summer goods came in and werespread out upon the counters, one beganto notice the abundance and beauty of themachine-made fabrics.

that show the lining too plainly.But the prettiest gowns for the house

and many of the best gowns for the streetdo "show through," and the liningques-tion must be tackled boldly.

The Lining Question.Here Is the advice of a very fashionable

dressmaker, who designs and executes forthe wives of millionaires:"Ibegin at the very beginning," says

she, "and make my linings first.""Mrs. A,"mentioning the wife of a fa-

mous multi-millionaire, "willnoFbuy silklinings, and one do«s not blame her, forin the summer they are not durable, anda substitute that looks just as well mustbe provided.

"For this woman and for many othersamong my patrons Imake very stylishand wholly beautiful linings of the finestof lawn. The waist is low in the neckand is made like a corset cover, sleeve-less. It is elaborately trimmed with laceand would do for an evening waist. Itcashes nicely and is made separate fromthe gown< |

"For the skirt Imake not.a petticoat,but a perfect fitting, perfect hangingdress skirt. It has its flounce, which isvery full, and ithas its sweep length. Itwould do very well indeed for a gown.

"When the dress is to be put on theliningis first donned and hooked up, theekirt is now put on and hooked. Then thedress is put on, bodice and skirt. "A per-fect fit is secured and the effect is lovely."Imake up linings in all colors of tha

finest of lawn and in wash mull, and Inthe thin goods, following always onamcdel, and my patrons have four and sixof them and often more, according to thesize of the wardrobe.

"The secret is in making both waist andskirt so that they look like gowns, notlike corset cover and petticoat. Mypatrons could attend a dinner Ina lining.Of that Iam positive."

The Ethereal Gown.The ethereal girlis the one who dresses

in the fairy goods. These come delicatelysoft and thin, yet crisp, and they are de-signed for the making of afternoon and \piazza, gowns.

There is quite a fad now for the gownthat is stiff and starchy, not soft andclinging, and the mulls and linens seemdesigned for this sort of treatment.

While the esthetic and artistic gown—

the "slinky" one, that twists around one'sfeet and gives one height—Is In fashion,it is undoubtedly true that tha crisp,sheer one is also In style, and tha after-noon maiden can see them both and tak«her choice.It is generally agreed among those who

make dress and its designing a life studythat the stiff, crisp linen and the delight-fullyperky lawn, with Its starched effect,are both meant more for country wear!for hotel piazzas, when one can keepone's self in picture attitudes, than forthe street.

These little dresses are trimmed withValenciennes usually, or with the softestand finest of summer laces, and are madewith the lace set in the skirt and withlace set in the. waist. There is usually ababy-like yoke upon such a waist, andthis is completed with a juvenile ruffle otlace. Around the foot is a dear, crisp lit-tle flounce.. The elbow sleeves are fin-ished with a. little lace ruffle.!

Miss Simplicity will dross in white thiscummer, with the white waist buttoningdown the back; she willhave a yoke, bor-dered with a lace ruffle, and her stockwillbe little more than a lawn band withlace along each edge. Her skirt will bevery simple and rather full. It will bafinished with a very fluffy little laceflounce. And she will wear a sash.

The Home Dressmaker.Itis a fine summer for the woman who

wants to do her own dressmaking, for Inthe newest of dress fabrics are seen thosethat have lace set in, after the most dell-cate ways.

There are the mulls— though they are alittle bit expensive— that have really nicelaco set in to form a sort of design, largeirregular diamonds and little swirls oflace. You have to pay the price butthink, of doing the work yourself!

The foulard asserts itself summer aftersummer, and you fall a victim, thoughyou don't know why. Foulard is never aver\- dressy goods, and it is never verycheap. But it is, oh! so very ladylike. Ina summer foulard one can face the worldifit is made up prettily. /

There'are foulards and foulards andmany ways of making them.

A certain elegant importing establish-ment of Gotham makes a specialty ofthem. They are in Chinese blue, old coldtobacco brown, navy blue, black, and inmany shades of green, making a gre'atvariety. Allshow the figure upon a whiteground, or the white figure upon a col-ored ground— tht;;unmjstakable foulardsijjn.

AHundred Dollar Foulard.These gowns are beautifully made, andnone costs less than $100. It is ahnosta commentary upon the beauty ot the

gowr,3 when you know that the" firm hasdifficulty in fillingits orders at 5190 eachNow, here is a $100 foulard, just such aone as was purchased by Mrs. -ClarenceMackay— and perhaps the very same one:

The foundation was in two shades oftan, light tan pebbled on a deeper tan .ground. Green clover leaves connected by

The Very Large Hat.The large hat. meanwhile, la enjoying

an unrivaled popularity. It is big and itsets upon the hair in certain approvedways. Itmust tilt a little, and probably

there is a bow at the back; that seems tobe necessary.

The Lord Kitchener hat has its boa.It is in white chiffen. while the top isstartling in the intensity of its brilliantred flowers. They are large and veryred, its leaves are large and very green.It used tu be thought not nice to v/ear

a brilliant hat in the street, ami womenof the best taste sought the black hnt^with its ribbons and plumes and itsrrhlnestoiie ornaments.

But this season you see hats made allof glaring red geraniums, and you seethem built cf violets very bold in hue andof pansles that are not at all shrinkingbut that force themselves in all theircolor,upon you.Ifa "loud" hat Is becoming to you, by

ail means wear one, for itwill be in goodtaste, sanctioned by the best dressers inthe world who put on their flower gar-dens and sally forth complacently.

The true boa of summer is built of verythin goods, chiffon preferred, with silkmuslin running a close second. It i3dotted with silk lozenges, and it is fin-ished along the edge, with the tiniest oflittle ribbon ruffles.

One can spend a great deal of time andsome money on this summer boa and be•well repaid in the matter of looljs. Thelength just bow is to the waist, and theboa must surely match the hat. Fallingthis, it should be in white, made of whitesilk muslin and little satin ribbens. Thereare loves of boas, charming enough tograce any occasion and any gown.It is just the time of year when one ia

winding up one's preparations for thesummer. One sees many things that havebeen left unbought. Prices are down andthe temptation to purchase is great.It is a great compliment to our native

wares that American women are buylne,their goods in this country, and even jw^the ,vast numbers that have gone ove fthis/ year for the coronation very fewnav* made any plans for bringing homea wardrobe. Uncle Sam's clothes are goodenough for them.

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Stout women find this smooth front apositive godsend. And again is the llttlawoman suited, for, with the plain, softlytrimmed front, guiltless of button orseam, she becomes positively babyish.There is something in her petite pretti-ness which takes at once to the waistthat buttons down the back. So It iswell to compromise with one's friendsand one's family, and to make arrange-ments to be buttoned up with regularityand care."

The front forms a fine field for the dU-play of jewelry, and at a luncheon,very dressy one, to introduce a muaicaihrelative of Somebody-or-Other to society,the ladies looked as though decoratedwith all the orders of the United King-dom. There Is always the locket whichhangs from a slender invisible chain, andthere ia the dangle which hangs from Itslong chain.

Lovely sets of pins coma now, fourbeautiful, clear pearl ones, looking Ilkamother-of-pearl and a. large oval pin tomatch. AH these are for the front of thaseamless waist and are to outline thayoke and trim it. They are set along atintervals, with the big one In the middle.

The big hat grows bigger and tha littlehat grows smaller as the season warms.The latter is for matinee and for verynice reception occasions and for specialevents. But it can hardly be called astreet hat. Indeed, many do not own thatiny little hat; and really draw no medi-um between the big hat and none. at all.

For a tiny hat, if wear one they must,women compromise upon a coiffure or-nament which consists of a feather, anaigrette, a few gems and a bow of vel-vet ribbon, the whole bearing a wavylook as though it were a thing of air.

Everything is done to add to the light-ness of the hair ornamented, to Its fly-ing" qualities, so to speak. The orna-ments are perched on spirals that theymay dence and the flowers are attachedto wiry stems to make them sway; thaaigrette- floats, from very lightness, andthe ribbons are perched in very perky lit-tle wavs.

The Closed Front.

Many of the handsomest new gownsare closed in the back and this styleis becoming to all. Itis youthful andgraceful, and the fact that it is a nuis-ance is the only argument against it.

.Many o'f ihe s.ik Dodices axe made witn.the postillion back. But for this it is al-most as well to make the tails of silk tomatch the gown, and attach them to abelt to form a postillion belt.- Then onaneed not always wear the little reartabs. That they are becoming there is nodoubt and that they give height and slexx-derness is undisputed. Yet it is pleasantto be able to do without them.

The woman who studies the fashionsand designs her own gowns is as a rulathe woman who gets along on a cloth inthe spring, a summer siik, a little blazercoat, a few skirts and as many shirtwaists as she can get. Itis well witnsuch a wararobe to have each garment

made along the conventional lines in-stead of trying a fashionable extreme.

The rurHed skirt, gather*^ \>ifvthe band,the "tub" skirt it has been nicunamed.may be here next winter. It was o*icafashionable in the ballroom and may baagain; but for one's summer silk It isnot well to be too progressive unless onehas a dress or two to spare.

There are Eugene skirts creeping lnt©the fashionable shops, and llttloglimpsesof the Eugenie modes are given now andthen. But the woman wno wants to fcw»on the safe side will not. just yet. ruf.I'iher skirt to the top, nor willshe make it.very full and round.

There is one model to which DumFashion is faithful. The plain, dose-fit-ting skirt with the foot flounce. True,she varies the flounce and makes It aSpanish ruffle, deeper In the back, or ah*points it along tho top. or aha side plaitsIt,or she takes It and sets a fluffy ruf-fle under it. But on all the new gownsyou willsee this volante, or on so manyof them. • ¦

Dame Fashion Faithful.

Those who keep up tha pretty practiceof paying calls each summer before goingInto the country can Invest in one of thesummer silks and make Itup convention-ally.

Poulard has been called the churchgrown. So It Is, and the summer callingdress, and certainly the one for coolnessand comfort. It wears well, does notmuss, and Is not apt to look rundownuntil it is all worn to rags.

Ifyou do not care to go quite so high—and there are those who would look at$100 a Ions time before spending it on on«foulard—there are Just as pretty thingswith lace and velvet, all done along faah-ionable lines, butInvolvingnot much labornor much fine lace.

The waist had a yoke and stock of chif-fon, withblack velvet running through th«¦tock, and thers were applications ofduchess upon the vest and at the top ofthe sleeves. Beautiful tmdersleeves.trimmed with lace, completed tho gowir>There was a black velvet sash. I

Such a dress as this, counting the eosftof the goods, of the lace, of the velvet andof the time to make It. was worth, themoney.

There was a foot flounce which grewvery wide in the middle of the back; andheading this foot flounce, there was anapplication of beautiful duchess lace wit,hthe foulard cut out underneath. Parts' ofthe lace were lined with black velvet.The hips have application of duchesswith the foulard cut out in the same man-ner, and black velvet was set under hereand there. Inlittle stray patches.

stems were scattered all over the mate-rial.

THE SUNDAY CAliL.2

THE WHITECOWNIS NOW THEFAD

In spite of occasional blaststhe smart white duck, thegauzy afternoon gown and thehandy and ever-ready foulardare In our midst—Why Mrs.Boosevelt dresses in white.What Pauline Astor and otherAnglo-American beauties ara¦wearing—How to get up yourgown to look as though itcostone hundred dollars—Cheatingthe public i:imatters of laceand summer silk.