The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-29
FEMININE FRILLS.
Pretty Linen Gowns Have Black
velvet Trimmings-Tasty
Muslin8.

Khaki letter paper is the latest, and
being linen, it might be made out of
the very material made into uniforms,
from its appearance. This may not
mean that it is altogether beautiful,
but it means something, and great
many people will find it indispensable,
says the New York Times.
Khaki linen gowns have real value,
for the peculiar snuff-brown shade will
not show the effect of wear, and that is
good thing in woman's gown as
well as in soldiers clothes. One of
these gowns is very pretty. The skirt
is made quite plainly, three plaits on
each side stitched to below the knee,
and a plat set underneath in the
back. White lace of heavy kind suit
able to the material is the trimming
of the gown, and band of this is
around the skirt and edges the bolero
and bands the sleeves. There is q
waist of some sheer white material
worn with the gown, and the bolero
and sleeves are of the khaki. The boz
lero is short, cut up little in the
center of the back, fastening at one
side of the front. On either side of
the opening of the bolero are two
close rows of tiny little brass buttons
which seem to give an appropriate
military note. 1t is pretty suit.
Black velvet run into gowns in mar
row ribbons is pretty and much used,
as always. One pretty frock in which
it appears is also of coarse linen, a
rose or soft red shade, also trimmed
with white lace and worn, like the
other gown, with sheer white bodice,
the bolero and sleeves of the linen.
The white lace is appliqued on in a
number of big splashes around the
skirt, and the bolero edged and fare
to the sleeves finished with it. The
.bolero may not be genuine one, but
there is no other word that will ex-
press the making of the bodice. 1t is
ia short bolero showing the white
waist at the neck and some distance
laboye the waist, except in the very
front. There the two sides of the boz
Hero meet biblike piece of the red,
(which tapers down to the waist. AT
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,ings there are little rosettes of the
baby velvet ribbon. The belt is mar
row band Of the linen with a row OF
1.-THE ribbon velvet on either edge, and
more of it is run into the heavy white
lace in the flare of the sleeve and the
thin stock Of the white bodice.
A figured lavender muslin gown has
the bodice made in very pretty way.
The back is composed from the shout
der blades down to the waist of three
!eighth-inch horizontal tucks. These
do not go entirely across the bodice
and graduate with the bodice down to
the waist line, the upper tuck being
the longest and the lower the short
lest. The fullness left at the ends of
the tucks is gathered into the under
arm seams of the bodice. The effect
is very pretty. There is fufiness,
and at the same time in the center of
the back the muslin lies fiat. The
material is fulled into the under arm
seams for the front of the bodice also,
but that is not tucked, the fullness
being desirable over the bust. A half
sailor collar turns away at the neck
of this gown, showing white chemi-
;eette. This collar in the back falls
to the first of the tucks. 1t is edged
with folds of plain lavender muslin,
which also form the trimming of the
skirt. Four or five of these folds are
put on close to the edge of the skirt,
and more Of them little higher sim
ulate a pointed oyerdress.