Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-15
FASHION AND FANcY.

various Articles for the Fohinile ward.
rObo.
While many ladies do not like to or
Ger their standard suits very early in
the season, as, toward the end Of April,
new styles may appear, they may with
perfect safety arrange for all the &C.
cessories and minor items OF their
wardrobe for the entire summer.
The pctticoat is an important factor
in fashionable dressing. One may have
dress skirts made with lighter material
for Innings and with less bulky and
cumbersome fittings than heretofore,
provided suitable peLticoat is secured.
There are firm and reliable makes of
kaircloth that stand out under the
weight Of all skirts Of ordinary fabric.
With skirts made on this plan, one
well-made petticoat serves for the en-
tire outfit for street costumes. These
MAY be in gray or black haircloth, and
should be fitted with the utmost nice
ty. For evening dresses a white hair
cloth one answers the same purpose.
Silk petticoats are in very general use,
although many ladies who have worn
them for years are making up fine,
firm qualities of moreen, and like them
very much better. There is a certain
springiness to the morecn petticoat
that one does not find in silk. which.
unless very carefully cut, is likely tn
wind around ones ankle, and make
walking q weariness rather than q
Pleasure.
AS to white petticoats, the variety
and elegance of the importers stool:
are simply bewildering. They remind
one of the old-fashioned christening
dress of an infant, such masses of
tucks, puffs, ruffles, lace and embroid-
cry are they. There is a fancy among
exceedingly dainty and fastidious
women for making petticoats of fine
nainsook and finishing them with
single wide hem-stitched hem. An
other favorite model is made on the
Spanish flounce idea. Half of the
length of the skirt is gored, the re.
1iaining portion being set on OF
straight breadths. This may have a
hem-stitched hem or a plain one with
narrow flounce of lace. In all cases
the hem should be the full width of
the flounce, as it is much more desir-
able if the flounce is sewcd through
more than one thickness of the fabric.
While the chemise is part of oil
well-kept underwear stocks, the knit
ted vest, either in gossamer, silk or
wool, is much more generally worn.
1t absorbs the perspiration in summer,
fits the figure without wrinkles and IT,
by many thought to allow of n much
better fit of the dress waist. At all
events, it has become q standard arti-
Gle of wear, and is so much approved
that there must be a good reason for
its continuance. The gossamcr vest is
also worn as a corset cover, and is by
many preferred to those made of mus
lin except for dressy wear. The bicycle
has had much to do with modifying
certain articles of apparel. The corset
waist and the hygienic waist have he.
come so important for wheelwomcn
that it is fondly hoped that much bet
ter shapes will be furnished than here
totore. Many of those in use, whilo
they have points of advantage in bust,
waist and hip shapes, have such ex
ceedingly awkward and uncomfortable
shoulder straps that they cannot be toll
Grated. A number of makes have
strap so arranged as to bunch out Just
above the shoulder blades. absolutely
spelling the figure and suggesting wing
bones, which, while they may be desir-
able from nm esthetic point of view, are
not particularly ornamental when they
push out into the back Of ones dress
waist. a"'. )