The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-14
FLUFFY VS.. TAIL0R-MADE.
HOW THE FORMER GIRL DEFEATS
THE LATTER,

Eternal Feminine Seems to Be Re-
turning to Its own-Athletic Girl
on the wane-New Idea In Paper
Patterns-A ParasoI for Every
GOwn-CottOn Costumes Are Swell
Ter Than SiIk-Foulards Are N
Nightmare, but Lace CIOaks Are a
Dream.
New York, July 12.-In midsummer
fashions the eternal feminine" rules
the day, the only danger seeming to be
a tendency to get skirts too long, seshes
too frequent and effects too heart-break-
ingly coquettish. Not a strong minded
hint is seen anywhere, and surely this
fact together with the soft loneliness OF
the seasons fnery. should compensate
husbands for the big bills that sometimes
come in with it. Talk as you please and
they will bear you out in it, you may be
sure, men abominate the really sensible
ia womans gear They love to be fooled
and carried away by fun and feathers.
and after brief laundering for the other
thing fair woman has found this out.
A Quartette' of afternoon frocks show
some of the least extravagant of the sum
mers styles. and offer becoming sugges-
tons to the home dressmaker.
New Kind of Paper Patterns.
But apropos of home dressmal1ing,
when YOU have smart gown to fash
ion, don't buy the conventional fat pa
per pattern. Go or send to one of the
many pattern houses in New York where
nat one This will show how to place
the various cores, fiounces and trimmings
AT some of these pattern places, which
achieve the most artistic results, even
textures are suggested with the model.
and any detail may be bought separately,
such as a hounce, sleeve cuff. stock OF
belt. Just now one place in particular
is running a very complete line OF de-
signs in the new lingerie collars, which
As the name of the little tucked and be-
laced affairs of silk null, batiste ana
organdy that embellish the smartest
frocks.
One of the four gowns in the group pic
ture has lingerie collar in ecru Datiste,
the fine tucks ending at a point to form
a surrounding frill. Another gown or
blue and white Pompadour foulard DEM
onstrates in shirring the hip-trimming
now SO popular. White silk muslin, or
the SHRED front and puffed undersleeves:
black velvet is the other garnishing, and
in a great bow at the front 1t trims eff
fectively the round hat of white tulle and
black satin, braid. A very graceful toll
lette for youthful figure also has Its
charms heightened by this gracious dec
Grafton, and so softening is found the in
fuence of black velvet that 1t may re-
veal with the frailest and palest textures
and never seem amiss.
Pekin silk, which means in plain Ian
euage black and white dots, envolves the
fourth frock whose swathed little bolero
knots at the bust over a corsage of white
guipure
Bright ParasoI Idea.
One very pretty, and striking fancy
of the seasons modes Is to introduce the
gown stuff into the accompanying para
sol Sometimes the umbrella will be en-
trely Of the frock material, and If this is
a light, dotted silk, bordered canvas, or
a robins egg blue pique, the result is
exceedingly smart.
One clever woman, who is endowed
with more brains than gold, has a par
asol for each of her best toilettes through
the simple device Of covers to go on and
off as fancy dictates. They are difficult
TO make at the top requiring much deft
handling. But lately she has taken to in
PRODUCING brass ring mere. Duttonnollng
the points of the cores over 1t, with the
result that her thatch may be changed
at a moments notice. The lower breadths
of the cover are fastened 90 the ribs by
means of the good, old-fashioned thread
and needle always at hand.
The swell Cotton Gown.
Very dashing pique costumes are seen
in rich, solid colors, and there are some
beautiful linens with weaves so coarse
they might pass as wall coverings, fash
toned into suits of a plainish gored skirt