Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-04-10
NEXT SEASONS SHIFT WAISTS.
they VIII Come High, But the Women
viii Wear Them.

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Women of luxurious taste, with
money to support it, win soon spend
SIS on n shirt waist that will be fire.
quent candidate for the washtub
Surely that's a pretty price for a wash
garment, but experts say it will be
worth the money. 1t win be ofsill. with
French collar and cuffs. For the m-
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 gold button.
Fifteen dollars will be the outside
price, the dealers say, and if 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 can go as low
as $3.50 for 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 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 good thing last week, so he
says. lie procured the loudest colors
possible III a 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 batiste linen for SIP. These |
batistes come in deep colorings also, |
such as red and green and blue and vel |
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
~ think of them without a SILVER.
There have been attempts to decorate
he shirt waist in some unusual way,
out the shirt waist, like the mans
white shirt, does not lend itself easily
70 decoration. and it will be much as it
llways was when the season opens. A
uclS here, a plat there and a rufiie
else is about the extent of
he possibility, even embroidery not
'eing easily applied. To the expen
i've shirt waists six plaits have been
dded to the back, which, the dealer
'ill tell you, makes the waist worth a .
ollar more than it was before. The
TX plaits are entirely new, he says, but
eally they are only revival of the
tyles of ten years ago, as any woman
those memory goes back for a decade
an testify.
1t has been found that for bicycle
nd horseback riding nothing is more
onvenient than the shirt waist, so it is
atural that there should be a great
cal Of attention bestowed on the gar
lent Women viii wear stocks Of
ashable material, and tie them in a
ig knot, so that collars will not be
and she will not be obliged
} tuck a handkerchief down her neck
} prevent her collar willing Chicago
tier Ocean.