The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-27
FOR FEMININE READERS
TRANSPARENT EFFECTS ARE PREV
ALENT IN SUMMER FASHIONS.
The Successful Woman May BE One
en- i'm COIIcges-ScfentificC Cookery.

The dominant nbte in all the fashions
this season is the use of thin ma
terials, says the New York Sun. Have
what you will; if it is only transparent
enough to show a CLEAN of color from the
lining, it will pass muster. The muslin
gown is decidedly one of fashions special
ties, and has leading place among her
fayorites. The new mode of mounting some
of these simple gowns is a development in
the art of dressmaking that adds much to
their beauty, as we'll as expense. For ex-
ample, skirt of colored chiffon in dainty
apple green is first hung over one of white
taffeta silk, and over this is the real dress
of white organdie, as plain or as much be-
ruf1fed with lace as you wish. The soft,
delicate tinge of green gives an exquisite
effect, especially under the embroidered
muslins so much worn. White muslin gowns
founced from the waist to the hem and
again on the bodice with narrow lace-edged
frills have subtle charm which is exclu-
siVely their own. White muslin trimmed
with yellow applique lace and made over
white silk affords a charming gown; but
many bright colored Innings are used,
mandarin yellow, blue, green and cherry
shot with gray being favorites. Another
model is of pure white muslin with an in
Iltl uIGSS Oh green CHlIIOn, anu SdSH ana
belt also adding much to the ethereal eff
feet so much sought after this season.
Tinted muslins in pale yellow, green, sum
flower blue and ecru, dotted with another
color or with white, are very popular and
very dressy when made with tucks and in
sertions of lace entirely covering the skirt
and bodice, which should overhang the belt
all around. Pale ecru muslns, trimmed
lavishly with yellow lace insertions, are
one of the latest fancies of fashion One
pretty imported model has three rows of
wide lace insertion around the skirt, a
tucked bodice with a round yoke of white
muslin finely tucked, from which falls a
collar of yellow lace finished on the edge
with hem of the ecru muslin and a belt
Of green and white and black plaid silk.
The key pattern is prettily carried out with
cream lace insertion in another model of
pink lawn, where it decorates the knee
deep ruffie and the skirt above it. The
bodice has a narrow tucked yoke, tire tucks
running crosswise and in the fullness be-
low the key pattern appears again with the
squares going up in the back and front.
Muslin gowns are ideal for garden par
ties, and are certainly a necessary part of
the summer outfit at fashionable sum
mer hotel, but they seem hardly suitable
for the races yet according to all the for
eign fashion budgets they are made ex-
pressly for this purpose. However, all the
fashionable materials decidedly gos-
samer in effect, whether they are cotton,
wool or silk; degree of thinness, more
or less, makes very little difference.
Canvas, grenadine, net. linon, foulard and
taffeta silks have the lead among the race
gowns, and white canvas over color is
very popular One gown of this sort has
red taffeta lining, lace bodice and belt
and collar of green-blue velvet which make
it very striking. Open canvases in checks
of two colOrs and silky bareges tucked to
form the principal trimming are very much
liked. Braid and cords are often used as a
trimming on the white canvas gowns, and
insertions made of lace braid and fancy
stitches are sometimes set in with cord
on each edge silk guipure insertions bead
ed with steel are also employed in the same
way. Feather stitching appears in some of
the gowns as a finish for the wide hens
and the narrow ruff1es which trim the
skirts. Black, white and colored satin rib
bon, half an inch wide, gathered in the
used as an edging for ruf1es. revers and
collars, and hundred yards are often dis
posed 5ef DOT OF on IN one 3 go% tc4. a ,o,aouo,
designs figures largely in combination with
foulard silks for revers. collars and por-
ton of the bodice. One pretty model of
brown and ecru foulard has an entire
bodice of ecru batiste with a lace stripe
There is no end to the pretty novelties in
Fittings of Mechln lace yellow chiffon
and silk embroidery are very desirable. One
wise authority predicts that the last will
soon supersede the jeweled and spangled
trimmings so much worn. Satin and Lutte
string ribbon with a corded edge, both in
very narrow widths, are used as a substi-
tute for braid, and are put on in the same
way in various designs; the ribbon often
matches the material in color. 1t is seen
on some of the tailor gowns made with the
very modish Moujik blouse, which is well
covered with the pattern both back and
front. Ruches of taffeta silk fringed on the
edge have come back again from the past,
and one new gown of black silk canvas
over a color has a ruche of the same silk
around the skirt at the knee and narrower
ruches across the bodice forming a yoke.
The sleeves of all the thin gowns are
more or less trimmed with tucks, insertions 4
and shirrngs from the wrist to the puff at
the top but the latest of all is the sleeve
which has no puffs frills, and is simply
an easy-fitting close sleeve, increasing a
little in size toward the shoulder In proper
ton to the arm. 1t is trimmed on the en-
tire length to redeem the plain effect, but
it shows which way the wheel will turn
as regards our sleeves in the autumn, Some
of the latest evening gowns have long
transparent sleeves of chiffon, net slight
ly shirred and close at the top, with no
frils puffs or drapery the fiat effect being
relieved somewhat by bows of ribbon on the
shoulders
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