Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-03-13
SUMMER FORECAST.
Prediction as to the Modes for the
Coming Season.

Coming Season.
To anyone but the fashionable up
to-date women the display of gauzy
summer fabrics in the shops SO soon
would be disheartening indeed. But
nothing in the line of prospective
needs in dress can daunt' the twentieth
century woman.
No self-sacrifice is too great fol
her to endure if she can buy heI
July clothes before the winter has
fairly begun; so the willy shopkeepel
spreads out the new satin foulards
silk mousselines and batistes in the
most alluring manner, soon after
Christmas, to catch her eye when
she came to exchange her presents
He knew the temptation would be ir
resistible, and so it is.
The patterns are attractive, the col
ors fascinating and the prices so low
in comparison with the winter vel
vets and cloths, that two or three
gowns can be purchased for the price
of one OF the heavier fabrics But
alas. the few yards of material does
not represent a 1.-THE of the expense
which rolls up later when you pay fol-
the making. However, this consider
alton is matter so far in the future
that II has no effect on the shoppers
zeal.
The new satin foulards are chiefly in
small patterns and well covered. Diff
ferent sized polkadots and oblong
spots are arranged to form a design
there is great variety in the patterns
but the large distinctive patterns
conspicuously outlined against d light
background are in the minority in this
first importation, which is encourag.
ing as an evidence OF good taste The
prevailing colors are navy blue, pastel
blue and tan patterned with white
with sometimes bit of black in the
design.
Black and white foulards, or. rather
white with black patterns. are very
attractive, and will be very popular
as everything in black and white is
sure to be. Ii the display of tan
shades in all the new fabrics has any
significance they are to be much
worn.
There Is a large variety of tans and
biscuit colors among the foulards, and
you see them in great variety among
the batistes and Swiss muslins. A
novelty in linen batiste is embroidered
| by machine in silk of different colors
and different designs.
Then there are pretty batistes with
Persian stripes in silk, plain satir
| stripes in different colors. and the al
ways pretty polkadots. These are il
linen color but there are other ba
tistes in dainty tints of blue and pinl
and heliotrope.
| The new blue Swiss muslins EN-
broidered with white are charming
In the mercerized cotton mousselines
too, there is great variety in design
and coloring, costing only 80 cents ;
yard, so there is something dainty t
suit every purse.
Novelty serge is one of the new
fabrics shown in a variety of plail
colors, while still another also il
plain, delicate eolors is the cotton ant
| silk crepe. 1t comes in all the prett!
light colors. and is almost as gloss.
as if it were all silk.
Cotton and silk grenadines add dain
ty variety to the list, which lengtheni
every year, especially in the depart
ment where cotton dress goods ar,
| sold. Each succeeding year show.
some new mixture of cotton and silk
cotton and linen; some new weave
something new in finish DISCUSSES tbs
appearance of the cotton completely.
AS for the new shirtwaist materials
they are in bright stripes, wide anC
! snowy. with three or four colors il
the combination. There are pretty
new wash silks. too. with tiny cord:
and dots. also for shirtwaitS. Among
the more elegant silks is a Duehes.
I satin. inset at wide intervals with
/ medallions of lace.
Hints of spring come to us not only
in muslins and batistes, but also il
shirtwaists of the thinnest descrip
ton already on sale. Thin whit,
shirtwaists in January seem a little
incongruous, but here they are as
! conspicuously in evidence as if they
never had given place to the aanne
ones.
Other suggestions of spring come
through the gowns which are beins
| prepared for the migrations to III,
south, and these are chiefly in white:
white nuns yelling. crepe de chine
beige and cloth being the leadins
fabrics. II is not alone white gowns
but white hats, white coats an
! white blouse waists.