Evening star., 1901-08-24
Now Fair Woman suspends BetWixt
and Between.
SUMMER FROCKS AWHILE LONGER
Now a Good Time to Mako the
ChiIdren's Clothes.
REIGN OF BLACK AND WHITE
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August %. 1901.
The shirt waist dress, practicable wash
suit in one material, Is just now the morn
| ing costume of many smart women. Though
cut on the plainest lines, and fashioned
generally Of the simplest ginghams, cam
brics and linens, this little rig has singu-
| lar dash when made correctly. = *t.t't
The shirt waist, which runs to an easy
| looseness. bishop sleeves and plain back.
| Is made very long at the shoulder seams.
| over which the best dressmakers stitch a
bias band an inch and a half wide. It is
| curious what a FLIP these trif,ing details
give to the set or garment. Without them
| 1t Is the sort Of thing anybody might wear.
| With the long shoulders and the bands
and the aforementioned looseness Of fit
| IL one may use the expression with sense
less clothes-a look Of gentle breeding Is
| created.
To further thfs very aristocratic sngges-
| tion the best shirt waist dresses are self
| trimmed-that is, with the same material
| so If you see one running to white bands
you may recognize 1t, as base pretender
| In the fashion world t.
It is even belted with the same texture,
narrow double bias, heavily stitched,
| serving for this purpose.
Sometimes comes across a fOulard
silk fashioned in this same sensible nam
| ner. But the most mo1arn print pat
| teEnsfare always chosen, and Instead Of the
| stiff linen collar of the WASH dress tth9 silk
gown will sport lace barbe that wraps
| the throat tightly and falls with graceful
+ ends to the belt. II it is not tied in a lit,
| tie bow at the neck the baroe fastens at
| sort. A great disc of turquois-matrix. rim
| med by golden serpent with jeweled eyes.
| Is a brooch one sees on all sides nowadays,
| and any one OF the barbes III good inita-
aII II,
frock.
Black and White Holds.
In the way of absolutely new materials
French manufacturers are offering rough
wool frieze, which, in black and white.
clever dressmakers are beginning to COM
bine with plain cloth in coral pink and
ochre yellow, at points where only a sug-
gestion Of color is thought necessary.
Black and white 1t seems is to continue
with u.s. for the newest CONNECTIONS from
Paris show a liberal sprinkling of gowns
in this favorite combination. One pictured
is Of cheviot, In a weight sufficiently light
to permit OF late autumn use. The mate
rial is one Of the handsomest patterns seen
"a grayish-white background. with the
| black raised and in irregular round
splotches.
tucks at sides and back. and the front is
in a very narrow gore. pressed over the
seams to lie like a shaped box pleat. The
bodice, with Its square neck and loose
sleeves, offers charming suggestions for
slight figures. Below the bust and shoul-
der lines the material folds in pleats to
form a girdle effect; the chemisette and
undersleeves are of white silk muslin en-
| broidered with black. Black Liberty satin
evolves the floating sash. and forms all the
solidly dark notes elsewhere seen.
Lovely Evening Wraps.
A batch Of evening wraps recall the
styles Of preceding seasons In outline, but
they are what the market offers the maiden
| who prefers becoming garment which she
knows to a problematic one whose virtues
are yet to be tested The high Medici COL
lars that have so long distinguished the
short evening capes-the long ones, too, for
that matter-have been found too univer-