The Saint Paul globe., 1902-03-30
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Copyright, 1902, Economist Camera.

Copyright, 1902, Economist Camera.
The warm days of late winter, with
their balmy, soft airs that betUken the
early advent of spring, serve ever as an
earnest warning to the indefatigable
woman of fashion that it is time for her
10 be up and doing. The present is no
time tor her to be idly slipping the luxu-
ries of a round OF pleasures; rather must
she set Valorously to work in order to
supply the deficiencies still apparent in
her spring and summer wardrobe despite
the fact that she has been judiciously
making selections therefor ever since the
beginning Of the year So, today, We see
her engaged in pulling over the soft and
shimmering piles of lustrous silks that
are to be made up into most fanciful and
beautiful Of carriage gowns for park and
garden party wear, or the thousand and
one other uses to which these beautiful,
yet COOL materials can be put.
The foulards are wonderfully beautiful
this year, and, let me whisper to you,
dear lady, that while these artistic pat
terms are drawn by French draughtsmen,
they are printed mostly in our own coun-
try, for, in this respect our manufactur-
ers are eXcellcd by none. Here, in glim-
mering masses, are the satin foulards,
even more attractive than those of last
year in their perfect combinations OF
color. Then, there are the soft and vel
Nety panne foulards, so closely resemb-
ling the beautiful velvets of like name,
and yet with a certain je ne sails quoi of
style that stamps them as the season s
greatest favorites. And a pretty penny
they cost; to be sure they are forty-six
inches wide, and it takes only eight
yards for costume, yet the price, S. a
yard, puts them beyond the reach Of the
majority of people. Certain of these
panne silks are further enhanced with a
plisse stripe that some women declare
strongly resemble the crinkly seersuekerS
Of days gone by, but the likeness, if any
exists solely in the effect, as the cost a
yard of this quality is $3.50
The beauty of the color combinations is
something truly marvellous, only to be eX-
celled by the lovely tones employed by
the Japanese color workers, whether
artists or embroiderers and surely it must
have been from this Eastern fountain
head of color inspiration, combined with
his own happy facility in the art, that
the French designer has drawn so eff
fectively for the tones with which he has
strewn his palette. Where else can be
found such dull, yet glorious, tones of
red, the clear, cold whites with sprawling
traceries of jet-like black, the tenderest
greens touched with the blue of the sea,
the silvery grays tOning into delicate
heliOtropes the soft tan and castor shades
ly fallen snow, which is still further en-
hanced by inl1y black flashes the whole
reminding one so strongly of the beauty
OF some rare Japanese print of centuries
ago? Surely, the American woman must
count herself the most fortunate of her
kind that she has all these beautiful ma
terials spread out for her approval Yet
is it not our own Lowell who has said
that to the beauty of it's women is due
the artistic development of a country?
Thus, ancient Greece was acknowledged
to be the temple of beauty, which was
largely due to the admiration excited by
the mental and physical qualities of her
women; so, today, our country is forging
ahead in this respect, as well as in many
others, chiefly because of the esteem nav.
Veneration, with which the men of our
nation regard their women
But to return to the foulards of spring.
1t is difficult to imagine a gown more
suitable for warm weather travelling than
one of the natty tailor-made foulards
Oh, yes. they lend themselves most read
lily to treatment Appropriate to such wear
and, as / overheard a woman saw the
other day as she was admiring such a
gown, That's awfully pretty, but don't
you know, you can easily do that YOUR
SELF She certainly looked quite capable
of the task. 1t was polka-dotted blue
foUlard-tO be sure we have all seen the
blue polka-dot before and oft, yet most