The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-07-25
NO. 80.
FASHIONABLE FEM1N1N1rY.
Iewest Attractions I'm Materials and
Make of Airy Summer
Costumes.


The newest blouses and fancy waists
close either at the back or they show
The revived style of fastening on the
left shoulder and under the arm, says
the New York Post.
Thus far, the exhibit of imported
gowns and costumes in black, white,
or black and white eombina tions have
proved the most elegant and attrac-
tive of the season. Wholly novel eff
fects in black and white mixtures in
silks, fancy satins, laces, nets and airy
forth in artistic and beautiful form.
The new gimp shirt waist is supplied
with q shawl. collar that is nearly COW
cred with lace and insertion. The
gimp is joined to aclosely-fitted UNDER
waist that has a trimmed front. the
neckband finished with a turn-down
lace collar. The gimp portion is tucked
all around the neck to the depth of
deep yoke. The close sleeves are fin
ished with turn-back cuffs, and some
Zines they reach only to the elbow;
and, again, gathered undersleeves are
added that match the gimp in fabric.
A very handsome summer toilet of
embr roidered black mousseline de sole
is made over a foundation of white
liberty silk. The tucked skirt.
trimmed with wide band of white
Venise guipure, opens down the front
over a shirred petticoat of the NOUS
seline de sole. The blouse waist has
q front of Venise guipure, and yoke
cJo chfrVo1 ho wit h
straps of black velvet ribbon. The
pointed girdle is of velvet, and the cof-
lar and sleeve frills are of the hand
some lace
The exhibition of f1owered batistes,
organdies, French lawns and India
muslins this season is more attractive
and beautiful than any display of SIM
liar textiles ever made in this city. The
array of French batistes is notably
dainty and elegant, and some of the
most charming gowns for June brides
maids and graduates have been made
of embroidered batiste, lavishly fin
ished with soft ecru lace flounces,
scarf-fronted fichus draped low on
the shoulders, and yokes and under
sleeves of plain batiste deftly gauged.
Hand-embroidery and hem-stitching
have been used in place of lace and
insertion on some of the most eXclu-
sive of the batiste and other trans
parent "dress" gowns of the summer.
Celestial blue" is the name of the
very newest of the tints of this still
remarkably popular color. It is an
even more beautiful shade than babe
or turquoise blues, and bleu celeste
appears among the lovely crepes de
chine, batistes, creped satins, sum-
mer brocades and taffetas, as we'll as
In the list of dainty belt and neck
garnitures in chiffon, velvet or satin,
and in hat fabrics and trimmings in
Vulnerable.
Dressmakers very frequently select
the corselet skirt for travelling, out
ing and beach promenade costumes
for morning uses, and when worn over
trim shirt waist of China silk, dim
ity or other fabric, the effect is chic
and pretty on fairly slender figure,
the cerselet top doing away with all
the details of waist of the ordinary
kind that calls for careful fastening,
betting and adjusting. A short Eton
Jacket is the almost invariable finish
for these skirts, the most novel mod
els being made with vest-frOnt Sec
tions and an Aiglon collar. This jack
ct always matches the fabric used for
the skirt, which, as rule, IS cut-with
five very shapely cores. and is made
variously with suspender tops, with
simple pointed corselet effect, or with
the front of the girdle portion slashed
and laced across with silk cords.