Evening star., 1902-08-09
NEGLIGE JACKETS
Accomplished With a Little
Ingenuity and Taste.
WATCHING AN EXPERT
WHO IS PROUD OF HER SKILL
AND LOVES HER WORK.
Hints as to the Newest Combinations
in Colors and Trim
mings.
WATCHING AN EXPERT
sreclaI cnrrespondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
PARIS. July 26. 1902.
l find that women who used to buy tea
Jackets of the modistes are ordering them
from the seamstresses. They are so simple
this season that it seems foolish to pay
large fee to a high-priced dressmaker when
a cheap sewing woman can do just as well.
White is the happy color which prevails,
and swisses. lawns and linens are the
choicest materials. Quantities of lace are
laid over them, and when color effect is
desired the sheer white stuffs are mounted
on thin silks.
Beige ring spot net lined with chiffon and
trimmed with EaIencienues lace composes
one dainty model The fronts are shaped
into deep. rounded stolss and the sleeves
are short and very full.
Ring spot net ornamented with lace me
dalIions is applied over pale blue silk to
make another jacket Ecru lace frilled
about the edges forms graceful border
for the garment.
Bell sleeves attract attention to a smart
coffee coat of fine lace net which falls over
a very fun lining Of cream-colored chiffon.
The net is gathered to form friIls and ruch-
ings. while soft streamers of gauze ribbon
flutter from bow at the throat.
Accordion plated nets are utilized in the
making Of these dainty demidress wraps.
Fiuted nets are made up with fine effect
over aCcOrdiOn-pidited pink silk. The
sleeves, collar and front are covered with
floral lace appli4ueS and q chou of crepe
de chine is set among the soft laces OF the
neck.
F'ichu draperies in lace and net decorate
the silk jackets. Of which one sees u few
models in very fine, soft material. Lace
trimmed nets. laCeS, ChiffOuS and nous
seIines de sole are adopted for trimming
the garments.
The transition season is the most diff
ticult of all for the fashionable woman.
Then nothing new is being evolved and she
has the ignOminy of seeing the rest of the
world take up every one of the smart ideas
for which she paid so much earlier in the
season Irritated out Of all patience with
her erStwnile faVC-itc frOCks, she retires
to the cDuntry-to her chateau if she has
one, 20 any available retreat if she is not
so fortunate.
Dull in the Country.
This year the weather has not encouraged
country life, and social affairs have flour
ished even into midsummer. Ladies of
high station stiH entertain and are enter
tainsd, and the modis,es. who have their
minds fu5d with fall fashions, are greatly
annoyed because they are expected TO min
tster 20 the demand for new ideas in mid
summer frockS
l stopped To inquire the modistic inten-
tons rt Nine. Coralie yesterday and found
her in deep despair over costume of ce-
ranlum red yelling which she had evolved
at considerable trouble for a very rich
very Wvll-h"rn and very eXactjng customer.
1t was returned TO her. and for what rea-
son. do You suppose? Because she had
mistakenly supplied a stock collar when
her patron wished to display her white
flesh in contrast with the rosy cloth.
trlfe IS a trife when II concerns some one
else. and I dare say I was unsympa thetic
with tAS toTaIIe. VINO was on the verge of
tears II seemed 50 ridiculous TO cry over
an alteration in a dress. although probably
l should have been quite as much grieved
had / tutled as COnscientiously as she had
done to find her best efforts unappreciated.
Come come madame: waste no tears.
Where are your scissOTs?' I said shortly
Let me see how you mean to satisfy this
Philistine customer"
"Ah. madame, and such neck as she
has Coralie declared lifting her head.
But, ambitious 10 show me her skill. she