The times., 1899-03-05
A SUMMER CLOTHED
IN AIRY WHITE
Lovely Fabrics That Show No
Touch of Color.
Spring Brides Will Wear Silver
White Flannels.
Fricze FIounces to he a Pretty Fea-
ture of the New Seasons
Cloth Dresses.

New York, March 4.-In view of the
fact that this promises to be spring
dressed in the very brightest tints and a
summer to follow clad almost exclusively
in white, it will be as well to advise the
anxious in favor of batiste and embrol-
dered muslin, and above all speak q
friendly word for white French flannel.
Batiste is one of the few materials that
has never been vulgarized. and in that fu-
ture, delicious to contemplate of blue
sky, ardent sunshine and gay gardens. the
loveIiest batistes will predominate. Their
soft, unwrinkling quality is what recon-
mends them especially to the new cut of
skirt, and made up over coarse lawn that
has plenty of body, they are at once beau
tiful and very inexpensive dresses. far far
more fashionable than any other cotton
goods of this year
II you can't afford gray embroidered
muslin in your summer trousseau then
don't betray your poverty by appearing at
any OF the fashionable resorts. After great
care and forethought the manufacturers
have brought out a muslin that is war
ranted to remain crisp in spite of seaside
fog and country dampness. They have
woven judicious amount of fine mohair
with the muslin and have produced an
| ideal fabric in consequence. Instead of
the sharp, almost singing eolors used last
season they have taken popular fancy at
its word and produced the most variegated
list OF adorable grays in their mohair
muslins and then embroidered on the crisp
surface in white and black.
No womans heart but must yearn over
counter full of these beauties that are
double width and cost from SOC to S1.25
yard. They are meant for makeup over
eolored slips. of course, and the bust mod
| els seen so far show skirts cut almost
| tight to the knees, bristling and biilowing
| below with a series of five to nine small
| aounces below that point. Another COM
mendable freak is that of edging muslin
| frills with very narrow gathered quilting
! OF taffeta, both its edges fringed
From Paris comes the advice TO cease
fastening any skirts behind and as often
as not to wear with muslin or cloth
| pouched lace blouses. buttoning up be-
hind or on the shoulder and under the
arm. Many women are buying with their
mohair- muslin gowns enough OF the goods
TO have toque made to match each cos
tune, and they are sitting up in the twist
ed muslin wings and quills. eolored in pale
| rose and wedgewood blue and fastening all
the trimming with silvered or gi,ded
skewers that the milliners have just got
in stock.
But to go back to oflannel-embroidered
9tiNtA "Hitt 10 quite Nut IuOSI IlOl-
| ish possibility for spring. Bridesmaids and
even brides are going to wear it, and the
reason why is plain enough, it is so bril-
| liant and becoming-silver white is a white
| that has sheeny surface, like satin
| and then on this surface is woven in
| cream white silk any form of ornament
| from polka-dot TO wreaths OF flowers AS
result we have a novelty that comes like
| the spangled net in dress pieces, ready to
| put on foundation and needing no deco
| ration. Some of these tints are made up
with overskirts falling in a series Of Column
| bine points upon knee deep knife pleat-
| ings and sometimes the skirt seems to open
all the way from hip to foot by means of
series OF charming little buttons.
Quite as handsome and fresh to the eye
are the spring cloth dresses Iavishly
| adorned with silk fringe. Now from time
! to time, there has been talk and speculation
about fringe. but at the present moment it
| has arrived and will make its presence or
| namentally felt in the Easter dress pa
| rades. Fringe lounces are the desire OF
every woman's heart. Some boarding souls
| have rich old fringes twenty years old to
| bring forth from trunks and linen wrap
| pings. and tiaunt in their friends envious
| faces. These flowers run from three inches
to three feet in depth. with the tasselly
| finish to the open meshed net portion quite
| deep.
| rietta cloth. silk poplin, or rich moilair is
| most approvedly contrasted with back or
| shade OF green so deep it is termed
| depth Of -the-forest green. and here is
| where the fringe comes in. You have a
| plain, slightly trained skirt and you lay
| your deeper narrow flounce around il in
| two rows from the knees down or lay on
| in points. Over your green waist YOU
place your fringe in a pouched front from
| the bust down, letting the tasse,s fall out
| about your hips, and thus arrayed you
| will get your due attention and admiration
| from your own observing sex.
| Make your own way into the sanctum
| of any progressive modiste and you will
| find her garnishing lovely silk and satin
evening gowns with white or colored
| fringe, in the mesh of which pearls and
| spangles are caught.
With these evening suits, by the way,
| pretty fans are carried that only have
| five slender sticks and instead OF spread
| ing into a semi-circle the conventional
fans do, these expand to only about one
| fourth the diameter of a circle. Their four
ribs apiece are OF wood or pearl but most
| elegantly of rich dark tortoise she'll
very highly polished and slender cord
overlaid with bullion or gilded lace. They
call these the Princess Metternich fans,
and for Snowy beauty they quite outdo
| anything Yer seen before. In consequence
of the gold work on the gauze these fans
are carried, when not in actual use, in
pretty painted kid protectors
| Beside her fan every woman in the
evening wears, thrust half way under the
top edge of her decollete bodice a single
rosebud, so put together that it requires
a keen eye to detect its silken artifciali-
| ty. The bud is white, red yellow. or
pale pink, and appears as though fallen
| from some bouquet. In reality II is
tiny sachet, for all the rose colors are
now in the height of fashion, and this
small close folded bud against the wear
er's warm flesh gives out a subtle sweet
aroma.
Tho p,me. mud tb. c,r.