The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
SUMMER CLOTHED IN WHITE.
IN THE NEAR FUTURE THE LOVE
LEST COSTUMES WILL SHOW
No TOUCH or COLOR.

and Country Dampness; Is Called
Mohair MusIin-Brides and Their
Maids Are Going to Wear Brilliant
silver white Flannel Dresses This
SprinG-It Has Sheeny Surface
Like satin. and Is Made Up With
OversISirts Having series of Co
Iumbine POints-Fringe FIOunces
Are the Desire of Every WOman's
Heart-Princess Metternich Fans
VIII lie Carried Exclusively the
Next summer.
New York, March 3.-In view of the fact
that this promises to be a spring dressed
in the very brightest tnts and summer
to follow clad almost exclusively in white.
il will be as well to advise the anxious in
favor of batiste and embroidered muslin.
and above all speak a friendly word for
white French flannel.
Batiste is one of the few materials that
has never been vugarized, and in that fu
ture, delicious 10 contemplate, of blue sky,
ardent sunshine ana gay gardens The love
lest bastistes viii predominate. Their
soft, unwrlnklng 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
uful and very inexpensive dresses, far
far more fashionable than any other cot
ton goods of this year.
If you can't afford a grey 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 manufac-
urers have brought out a muslin that is
warranted to remain crisp in spite of sea-
side fog and country dampness. They
have woven a judcious amount Of fine
mohair with the muslin and have pro-
duced an ideal fabric in consequence In
stead of the sharp, almost singing colors
used last season they have taken popular
fancy at its word and produced the most
varigated list Of adorable greys in their
mohair muslins, and then embroidered on
the crisp surface in white and black.
No womans heart but must yearn over
a counter full of these beauties that are
double width and cost from fifty to a do
lar and twenty-five a yard. They are
meant for makeup over colored slips, OF
course, and the bust models seen so far
show skirts cut almost tight to the knees,
bristling and biilowing below with a series
of five to nine small fiounces below that
point. Another commend BILE freak is that
Of edging muslin frills with a very narrow
gathered quilting of taffeta, both it's edges
fringed
Advice From Paris.
From Paris comes the advice TO cease
fastening any skirts behind and as often
as not TO wear with muslin or cloth pouch
cd lace blouses, buttoning up behind or on
the shoulder and under the arm. Many
women are buying with their mohair-mus-
lin gowns enough of the goods TO have a
toque made to match each costume, and
they are sitting up in the twisted muslin
wings and quilts, colored in pale rose and
wedgwood blue and fastening all the trim
mings with silvered or gilded skewers that
the milliners have just got in stock.
All silver White.
But to go back to flannel-embroidered
silver white flannel is quite the most mod
ish possibility for spring. Bridesmaids and
even brides are going to wear 1t, and the
reason why is plain enough, il is so bril-
liant and becoming-silver white is white
that has a sheeny surface, like sa tin and
then on this surface is woven in cream
white silk any form of ornament, from a
polka dot TO wreaths of flowers. AS a re-
suit. we have a novelty that comes ike
put on foundation and needing no deco
ration. Some of these tnts are made up
with overskirts falling in a series of Co
lumbine points upon knee-deep knife pleat-
ings and sometimes the skirt seems to
open all the way from hip to foot by means
of a series of charming little buttons.
Fringe FIOunces.
Quite as handsome and fresh to the eye
are the spring cloth dresses, lavishly
adorned with silk fringe. Now, from time
to time there has been talk and specula-
ton about fringe, but at the present mo-
ment il has arrived and will make its
presence ornamentally felt in the Easter
dress parades. Fringe lounces are the de
sire of every woman's heart Some hoard
ing souls have rich old fringes twenty
years old to bring forth from trunks and
linen wrappings, and fiaunt in their
friends envious faces. These flowers run
from three inches 10 three feet in depth,
with the tasselly finish to the open mesh
ed net portion quite deep.
A shade of willow or stem green Henriet-
ia cloth, silk poplin, or rich mohair is most
approvedly contrasted with black or a
shade of green so deep it is termed depth
of-the-forest green and there is where the
fringe comes in. You have taken a pfain
slightly trained skirt and you lay your
deep or narrow flounce round 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 tassels fan out
about your hips, and thus arrayed you will
set your due attention and admiration from
your own observing sex.
New TogEery for the Evening.
Make your way into the sanctum of any
progressive mod.ste and you win 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 spreading into
semi-circle AS the conventional fans
do, these expand to only about e-fourth
the diameter of a circle. Their four ribs
apiece are of wood or pearl, but most ele-
gantly of rich or dark tortoise shell. very
highly polished and slender cord overla!d
with bullion or gilded lace. They cali these
the Princess Metternch fans and for
snowy beauty they quite Guido anything
ever seen before. In consequence Of the
gold work on the fra11Za tbaca fore ~, 49,