The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-04
FOR FEMININE READERS
FASHIONS OF THE SEASON TEND TO
MUCH ELABORATION.
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should Forbid-ImpOrtnnce of
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The fashions for the summer season tend
toward elaborate effects rather than sim
plicity in any of its modern guises. says a
writer in the New York Post. Fashion is
gracious beyond all precedent this year, in
all the appointments and accessories of
finished attractive gowning. Lace will be
prodigally used in the loveliest of designs
in black, white, cream and butter color.
ribbons of every width and design and
fancy silks and satins. often toned with
velvet choux, loops and strappings or gem
set buttons and slides. Separate skirts of
red material, elegantly hung and deco
rated, will be worn with fancy waists of
silk or chiffon elaborated with costly APP
pliques in medallion effects and matching
lace insertions. These with palmer gowns
for the street may be characterized as the
general style with numerous notifications.
The lavish use of mousseline de sole Will
continue through the entire summer sea-
son, not only for neck and waist trim
mings, but for both day and evening
dresses. With many designers and high
class modistes taffeta stands unrivaled as
the silk of silks for this and next season.
The striped, dotted, lowered and rides
cent taffetas are beautiful this year and
sometimes in combination are used the rich
monochromes For example, a very smart
Doucet gown has a skirt and bodice Of
lovely mauve family shot with sea-green.
This is striped delicately with a vine pat
tern of palest gold flowers and leaves. The
bodice is artistically adorned with yellow
silk venise and guipure and dark green vel
vet ribbon.
AS the season advances the taste is
evinced for Norfolk and other pretty pleat-
ed waists-a fashion particularly becoming
TO slender fiugres, and since the pleats are
le~ngthwise not objectionable TO those who
are large. These pleats are noted in vari-
Gus materials among the spring woods and
silk and wool mixtures, and the summer
silks and handsome wash fabrics, and are
usually box-pleats spread fiat, or often a
series OF finer ones with usually a band of
insertion between. The belted round
waists are in three box-pleats, alike front
and back, sometimes below a yoke, or else
a pleated waist with yoke has wider
le~ngthwise bands Stimulating such pleatS,
with a line of embroidery on lace through
the center, these bands extending from the
waist to the neck and shoulders.
This will be a year almost unprecedented
In the history of dress in its use of lace of
every possible degree of fnenesS and beau
ty of design, novelty, tint and width for
every time of day or evening. The models
already exhibited as favored creations for
next summer render this an elaborate fact.
Used as coverings. panels, draperies,
fchus. berthas. jackets. blouses, in band
and applique form, and i'm every kind of
dainty and novel form, the bewildering and
beautiful kinds of real or fancy laces and
nets employed by French ateliers of fame
are legions in the renewed rage for pleated,
frilled and tucked effects; side, box, kilt
and accordion-pleating appearing in airy
and charming guises on skirts, princesse
dresses. tea gowns, matinees, supper jack
cts. ~berthas, parasols and expensive
French lingerie.
The flare around the bottom of the very
latest French skirt models-which continue
to cling closely about the hips-seems to in
crease rather than diminish as the spring
season advances. The tucks and pleats
used upon bodices, skirts and underskirts
are in every width and variety. in vertical,
horizontal, diagonal and acknowledged
lines. and a very prominent mode of finish
is the fiat circular greatly expanded
founce, both wide and narrow, in single,
double and triple rows, and trimmed and
shaped in many novel ways. All the dainty
neutral tints are very modish i'm semi
transparent materials, and all the soft,
supple textiles, such as peau de sole, satin
foulard, crepe de chine, liberty silk, taft
feta, Soyeuse, etc. naturally continue in
favor along with the undulating fourreau
style.