The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-07-06
FRILLS OF FASHION.
DresseFs Pretty Features of
the Seasons Gowns.

Embroideries of gold on tulle are
feature of the new evening gowns,
with silver and mother-of-pearl often
used in combination. Gold sequiDs,
very small and massed together 70
form a scalloped edge, are very pretty,
while for day gowns gold galloon and
gold cloth are both in use and are
Tor belts and collar bands and various
other purposes extremely becoming.
Pretty dancing gowns for young girls
are made of a soft white silk net with
very open mesh. The skirts are
plated and finished around the hem
with three tucks, sewn in with flo
selle silk. \ sash of soft. white satin
ribbon, draped wide around the waist,
and a narrow bertha of tiny white
roses and pink buds complete this
simple costume. made over satin or
white taffeta silk, says the New York
Sun.
Foreign fashion budgets tell us that
the severely simple tailor-made gown
is not the fashionable costume worn
at the Paris exposition. 1t may be
tailor-made. but it must be elegant
with some lace for trimming or it is
not up to the required standard. Mo-
hair is one of the most popular ma
terials. since it repels the dust. and
ecru lace is an equally good pur-
chase for this purpose.
One of the new modes of trimming
foulard gowns consists of bands of
white silk. machine-stitched in
straight rows or in a pattern. which
makes them very effective as finish
for the bodice, and the founces in
the skirt
High corselet girdles are worn with
shirt waists. and dimity gowns az
well. Formed of rows of lace. and EN-.
broidered insertion running around.
they are especially pretty for the
lowered muslins.
That fashionable color called khaki
has improved since it was first pro-
duced. and the ugly tint of yellow
brown has merged into the soft fawn
and beige tints.
\ straight full Spanish fiounce
tucked down in vertical lines a few
inches from the top is a pretty varia-
tion in skirts for thin gowns. 1t is
not always of equal width all around
however, being graduated from ten
inches in front to a half a yard at
the back
White mohair gowns trimmed with
silver lace braid and made with a
tucked skirt stitched with blue OF
pink silk are one of the vagaries OF
summer dress. Mousselne taffeta in
the color of the stitching forms the
bodice with a narrow finish of silver
lace on the plaits, and the irrepressible
bolero is made of bands of the mo.
hair two inches wide joined by straps
of the colored taffeta decorated with
silver braid.
For mourning pretty waists are made
of black net run through with black
/ chenille and worn with a long net
sash finished with chenille fringe.
The new collar band is quite
straight around. having no rounded
| form at the sides. but it is trimmed
| rs deliberately as you like.
Hand stitching is indeed one of the
new features of finish on our gowns,
and in the expert labor il requires will
Guido all others in the way of extrava-
| gance. While il cannot be so accu-
! rate as machine stitching. it has an
air which stamps your gown as chic.
| Bands of cloth and silk are covered
with hand stitching.
Pink is one OF the most popular coll
! nrS of the SEASON and the varViDo
tints in the different materials are
more beautifully soft than ever be-
! fore.