These almost transparent materials will be greatly worn. These goods are finer than those sold last year. Printed yarn and corded effects are very stylish, also broken plaids, shaded stripes, Scotch plaids of rich colorings, narrow stripes bordered with black, etc. Such zephyr gowns can be made very dressy with ribbons and heavy cream lace, and always seem new when washed with reasonable care. A zephyr gingham to sell at twenty cents is twenty-seven inches wide, slightly heavier and in much the same range of colors and patterns peculiar to Parkhill zephyrs.
Lavender is now fast in cottons as far as the washing goes, but sometimes fades in the hot sun.
Cotton sergette in wide and narrow stripes is used for shirt waists and men's negliges. Printed welts or French piques from thirty-eight cents promise to figure as house and street suits in white with colored figures, and vice versa. They are in broken stripes and small figures, black outlining many of them. Canvas or duck suitings are from fifteen to seventy-five cents, and resemble basket cloth weaving. They are in white and colors, plain and with hairline and shaded stripes, tiny dots and dotted stripes.