The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-08-24
OTR'FASHION LETTER
THE SHORT SKIRT WILL STAY
THROUGH THIS So e0N.

Growing Tendency To ,af. Military
Enects--Chick travelling Frock.--Fer
Golf skirts Get khaki OF Pongso--An-
other Travelling Gown.
Let IL not be supposed that the sum-
mer season advances this far without
strong evidences OF changes in fashion
showing themselves. II is enough ID
know that the spring opened with
mad furore for every kind of frill, fur
below, and gewgaw; TO surmise that
by midAeason my lady's mood would
change and from sheer safety she
would begin TO show a leaning toward
the other extreme and begin 10 adopt
the trim, neat and somewhat military
styles. These tendencies are TO be
seen first in her costumes for outing,
sport and travelling. and the mid
summer additions 10 her outfit are a
certain boastful swagger air, from
which her earlier investments were
markedly free. Her travelling gown.
which for many seasons past appears
to have forgotten its origin OF dust
proof simplicity and has extravag ntly
Haunted ornamentations of so elabo-
rate and perishable a character as 70
show a wanton disregard for tradition
and the ravages of cinders and dirt,
is now beginning TO show a few symp-
toms of quietness and plainness. and
Is learning anew, something of the wis
dom and severity of its foremothers.
Even since the first of the season a
decided change has crept in, and now
the suits for travelling are compare
lively simple save for the trim and
all popular ornamentation of gilt
braid and buttons, which express the
military spirit that is rapidly becom-
ing the rage. Dark blue Italian silk
with dash of gilt braiding and a few
gilt buttons. is the most recent ideal
summer travelling costume. This Ital-
ian silk is a slight variation from the
mohairs and siciliens, which have TAX
en- such stronghold this summer, and
while great deal more soft in tex
ture and more silky and lustrous in
appearance. ii still sheds the dust as
cleverly. 1t is a more expensive ma
terial, however, and in it's paler
shades is allowed 10 appear at dressy
affairs from which the mohairs and
sicinliens are ruthlessly ostracized. In
dark blues. browns and stone grays,
II is admirably adapted for GUNNER
travelling gowns and is light and cool
An extremely smart little sui OF
blue Italian silk recently from the
other side, appeared in Tuxedo not
long ago and was genuinely success
ftal u, = l.
proving also eminently appropriate for
short railroad journeys and days OF
shopping in town. The skirt showed
q plain straight panel down the front.
which was bordered in heavy stitcher-
les Of black. and outlined at its outer
rim with two rows of the very mar
rowest gilt braid. The panel was cut
IN the same piece, with a yoke which
came down upon the hips in the out
line of paniers and curved up at the
back leaving a space in which pleats
of the main skirt appeared extending
from the waist band TO the floor. The
skirt was eminently pleated, the
pleats which Joined. the panel in ont
being considerably larger than those
at the back. an original effect being
obtained by the graduating sizes or
the pleats. The bolero jacket was
equally original and chic, showing
the same curved outline as the yoke
Of the skirt with its trimming of black
stitcheries and gilt braid. AS the bo-
Zero curved sharply from the neck be-
low the arms, a pleating Of the Ital-
ian silk was adroitly attached 10 re-
peat the effect Of the skirt. The pleat-
ing fell in front from the neck in two
large folds and graduated 10 the very
smallest and narrowest size as it join
ed the rounding jacket under the
arms. showing only about one-quartei
of an inch in dept below the line of
the bolero in the back The jacket
was cut somewhat low in the neck
and not allowed 10 meet in front,
where twist and a few loops Of gilt