Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-07-02
FASHIONABLE FEM1NINITY.
Newest 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 combinations 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
melanges in French millinery are set
forth in artistic and beautiful form.
The new gimp shirt waist is supplied
with Il shawl collar that is nearly COW
cred with lace and insertion. The
gimp is joined to aclosely-litted under
waist that has trimmed front, the
neckband finished with a turn-down
lace collar. The gimp portion is tucked
all around the neck to the depth of a
deep yoke. The close sleeves are fin
ished with turn-back cuffs, and some
times they reach only to the elbow;
and, again, gathered uInlersleeves arc
added that match the gimp in fabric.
a very handsome summer toilet of
embroidered black mousseline de sole
is made over foundation of white
liberty silk. The tucked skirt,
| trimmed with wide band of white
Venise guipure, opens down the front
over shirred petticoat of the nous
seline de sole. The blouse waist has
front of Venise guipure, and yoke
and sleeves shirred and banded with
| straps of black velvet ribbon. The
pointed girdle is of velvet, and the col
| lar and sleeve frills are of the hand
some lace
The exhibition of Powered 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 yolies and under
sleeves of plain batiste deftly gagged.
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. 1t is an
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or turquoise blues, and bleu celeste
| appears among the lovely crepes de
| chine, batistes, creped satins, sum-
mer brocades and tailetas, as well as
in the list of dainty belt and neck
| garntures 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
a trim shirt waist Of China silk, dim,
ity or other fabric, the effect is chic
and pretty on n fairly slender figure
| the cerselet top doing away with al
! the details of Il waist of the ordinary
kind that calls for careful fastening
beltipg and adjusting. a short Etor
/ Jacket is the almost invarinhle finish
for these skirts, the most novel mod
| els being made with vest-front sec
tiuus and an Aiglon collar. This jack
, ct always matches the fabric used fol
the skirt, which, as a rule is cut witt
five very shapely cores, and is made
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