The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-18

800 ARDEN parties are in high
M/VN. y favor at the fashionable
HMM resorts this season. As a
A SASM means of displaying charm
NEW ing toilettes there is proba-
bly, nothing better, for they
offer possibilities of combinations that
neither the reception, theater party
nor evening dancing parties can lay
claim to.
Foremost among the materials Tor
the garden party gowns are silk ba-
tistes, figured gauzes, mousselines,
yeilings, pongees, crepe de chine and
foulards. AS for models, any definite
description is impossible, as anything
and everything which the season has
offered is employed and repeated again
and again in all it's notifications.
Shaped founces, for example, have
become monotonous side of the sub
ject since they have been worn long
and varied in many ways. Yet they are
quite as much the fashion as ever, and
repetition in the new materials and
modes of trimming combined with the
variations in shape becomes almost if
not quite novelty.
The shaped founce gives graceful
flare to the skirt which no other cut
can quite accomplish, fact which ac-
counts for it's popularity. We hear of
plated skirts and of shirred skirts,
and they are in sight in sufficient num-
bers to warrant their position well up
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ual inspiration has modified the idea
somewhat, so we have the effect with
out the clumsiness of actual fullness
plated in.
For example, the plaits are made
separately and sewn on after the skirt
is cut with cores to fit the hips per-
fectly. The plaits graduate in width
from one inch at the waist line to near
ly three times that width at the hem,
where they end in points just little
above.
Other skirt models have hip yoke of
shirring, lace or bands joined by an
open stitch, from which the plaits hang.
A pretty effect is made by trimming
the skirt around in deep yoke form
with rows of lace insertion, set in with
tiny bands of silk and arranging the
plaits over this, giving the appearance
of their being run through underneath.
Onr illustrations show two very elab-
crate models of the garden party
gown. They are in fact exceptions in
point of elaborateness, and made "a
decided sensation among the fair deni-
zens of Newport when they were first
worn a few days ago at fashionable
late afternoon affair. One is made of
rich black duchesse satin, very finely
tucked and intersected in a Vandyke
pattern with transparent insertions
of fine Chantilly lace on which appear
appliques of black velvet in a floral
design. The foundation of white
glace silk can be seen through the
black lace, and the bottom of the
skirt is finished off with narrow frills
of black spotted net which are edged
with chenille. A very original hat
which completes this costume is made
of white crinoline, and has a large
square crown somewhat like that OF
the mortar boards worn by students,
and ornamented with fine quillings of
white tulle. The sole trimming is
black ribbon velvet, which goes round
the crown and ties in a large bow at
the back, the loops and ends hanging
down on to the hair. A really exquisite
sunshade, which gives the finishing
touch to the toilette, has a foundation