The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-29

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mortify the flesh and cause tears of
penitence to fiow., it is TO have dress
maker in the house. So lovely woman
has, as usual. managed to kill two birds
with one stone.
The new silks are mostly satin finish
foulards and soft finish satins These
are printed, and they are almost
equally divided into two large and
small designs. There are perhaps
twenty-five different designs in blue,
and the blue runs through several
shades the majorfty of indigo shades
being in rather subdued tints. The
designs are especially quaint. like
those seen in some old forgotten rag
bag In farmhouse attic. One pat
tern has q close ground in shades of
blue, and over this is a larger pattern
in white stars or arabesques or clus-
tiers of dots, as the case may be. Others
have a dark blue ground with white
crescents and arabesque designs or geo
metrical figures. But there is none
where the pattern is as large as it was
a season ago. All the figures are neat
and close, and the smooth satfny finish
adds to their beauty. Few of the, silks
of this class are crisp. but are instead
soft and piiable and clinging.
Il there are many navy and indigo
blues in these pretty silks. there are
quite as many more in black and white.
for all the designs are duplicated. The
black and white summer silks are real
~ beautiful. and some few gowns all
ready made as samples show deep
fIounces or double skirt effects quite as
often as plain skirts. But skirts seem
to be much wider around the waist and
are often shirred down two or three
inches. Lace. both black and white
and often in combination, is used to
trim them. Insets. insertions, border
ings and separate pieces as applique are
put on as before wherever lace seems
called for.
There appear among the new cottons
and other washable materials muslins
with wayy stripes. dotted gauze, plaid
organdie. satin striped mulls. printed
batistes, grenadines in silk and cotton.
very soft and dainty; batistes with lace
stripes and with jacquard weayes of
flowers in various colors, and an im-
mense line of linen. both plain and EN-
broidered These grass linens are ex
peeesseeaa to be very popular, and they GER
tainly deserve it The most Of them
are embroidered N silk. which gi-yes
them rich appearance. There is also
a long list Of beautiful designs in ST
Gall embroidered swisses. That these
are lovely may be inferred from the
fact that it took our great lawmakers
a long time to decide whether these EN-
broideries should be entered through |
the custom house as lace or embroid
cry The. are so much like lace thar
one hesitates to call them embroidery,
but whatever they are, they are beau
tiful
All the 10. going are the thin fabrics, |
but there are many really handsome
printed dimities. homespun linen and |
cotton suitings, thick in appearance,
yet light: ali sorts of fancy beurrettes,
with their rough tufts; canvas. mercer
lied duck. looking like silk; reps. eta,
mines. crash in all weights and an III. /
finite number Of pereales and ginghanls
Of every variety, striped and checked.
A model OF an evening dress of white /
satin striped null is shown here The
stripes are arranged to so around. and
the whole dreSs IS trimmed with llaazss1ls
of lace insertion The dress is Nosn
over pink 81 slip and has i pink
belt and s5relogue ct pearls Z; each
With HIS are seen the new
lace glove mitts The glove proper
reaehes above the wrist ana the lace
Eases IS The AsIaouI der
81 81 SIS 81