The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-07
NEXT SEASONS SHIRT WAISTS.
They VIII Come High, But the Women
Will Wear Them.

VIII Wear Them.
Women of luxurious taste, with
money to support it, will soon spend
SIS on 4 shirt waist that viii be n fire.
qnent candidate for the washtub.
Surely that's a pretty price for a wash
garment, but experts say it will be
worth the money. 1t will be ofsilk, with
French collar and cuffs. For the in
formation of the unsophisticated it
may be stated that the French collar
and cuffs are of the kind that turn
over. 1t is of fine white linen, and is
secured with a gold button.
Fifteen dollars will be the outside
price, the dealers say, and if a woman
wants anything more expensive she
will be obliged to put on didoes of or
iginal design to run up the cost. On
the other extreme, she a go as low
us $3.50 for a waist, purchased in a
fashionable store. The $3.50 waist is
Of gingham, and is plain enough, too,
TO the ordinary beholder. 1t must
have good points, however, or it could
not cost so much. What these good
points are is not apparent at n glance.
but the woman of fashion who has a
delicate perception can tell them off to
you without difficulty, and is perfectly
willing to pay $3.50 so long as she is
being served with the right kind of
goods.
A dealer in women's furnishings
struck a good thing last week, Sc he
rays lie procured the loudest colors
possible i'll q new cloth that is called
grass linen. 1t is a Partisan produc-
ton and comes in great bars and
stripes, in the deepest and most strik-
ing colorings. He tried a dozen or SO
of them to see how they would sell. 1t
need only be said, to indicate what
the swell woman thought of them, that
he has ordered hundreds of them. She
is making her next summers shirt
waists already by wholesale, and if a
hot spell were to come next week she
would be ready with her lew waist and
her sailor hat.
The highest price for a grass linen
shirt waist is $3.50. A woman can buy
one made of batis4e linen for SIP. These
batistes come in deep colorings also.
such as red and green and blue and yell
low. all mixed up in various combina-
tons OF stripes, broken bars and
plaids.
The increased popularity of shirt
waists has sent them up in price even
now in the winter, when one can hard
ly think of them without a SILVER.
There have been attempts to decorate
the shirt waist in some unusual way,
but the shirt waist, like the mans
white shirt, does not lend itself easily
to decoration. and it will be much as it
always was when the season opens. A
tuck here. a plat there and q ruffle
somewhere else is about the extent Of
the possibility, even embroidery not
Icing easily applied. To the expen-
sive shirt waists six plaits have been
added to the back, which, the dealer
viii tell you, makes the waist worth a
dollar moro than it was before. The
six plaits are entirely new, he says, but
really they are only a revival of the
styles of ten years ago, as any woman
whose memory goes back for a decade
can testify.
1t has been found that for bicycle
and horseback riding nothing is more
convenient than the shirt waist, so it is
natural that there should be a great
deal OF attention bestowed on the gar
ment. Women will wear stocks of
washable material, and tie them in q
big knot, so hat collars will not be
necessary, and she will not be obliged
to tuck a handkerchief down her neck
to prevent her collar wilting.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.