Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-03
THE EASTER SELLING BEGUN
SOME OF THE NEW FANCIEs SHOWN IN
MEMS AND woMENs ATTIRE.

Gloves, Laces and Embroideries Shirt Waist
Costumes-Colors and Materials -Parasols--
Swell Hosiery for Men-shirts and Shoes
Suits in Cut and Material.
The Easter selling has commenced
and those most wanted goods OF wo-
mems Easter attire, gloves, laces and
embroideries, now have full showings
in the stores.
The Reformer's advertisers include
all the enterprising and up-to date
showers of these styles; and it's adver-
tising columns will tell you where to
90 for your Easter buying.
The two and three clasp real and
glace kid gloves, self embroidered. in
black, white, pearl, and the new spring
tints are IN the lead, with the new
mannish gloves in the new effects sec
ond in popularity.
Laces seem to predominate every
where and will be the chief decorative
feature of most every costume. VI
course there are other trimmings used,
braids and embroideries, but scarcely
A dress is without its lace decoration at
some point.
The shirt waist costume or two piece
suit would seem to be in more favor
than ever and is fashioned in wide va
riety of material and will be much
worn in the newer kinds of wash goods,
| light woolens, merceriZed silk and the
more extensive ones in silk. Stole col
| lars and like effects will be feature
and the new soft fabrics lend them
selves most pleasingly to tucks in one
form or other. The wo-piece suit will
lead in favor for street and outing
wear.
Shirt waists of thin sheer white will
be in vogue and piques, ginghams,
mercerized cotton, jap and mercerized
silk will follow close in favor. A mod
ification of the bishop sleeve will be
used with the fullness at the wrist,
gathered att the band with the opening
at the back. 1t will be worn with
both vertical and horizontal tucks.
Blue and gray will be the two smart
colors this season. A pale blue shade
| in shirt waists will be more worn than
any other kind except perhaps black
and white. Pale pink will be seldom
seen and red only occasionally, posi-
bly because it is becoming to so few
persons.
One of the most serviceable mate
rails for summer waist wear is crepe de
chine. 1t Is as washable as cotton and
even with a lined bodice has been
tubbed with success When new, dry
cleaning is better. however. and con-
siderably safer. 1t is light and cool to
wear and never too pretentious when
simply made up.
| There is nothing cooler IN silk
waist than one made up of china or jap
silk, unlined, with yoke of wall lace
and silk, tucked front and fancy cuffs
carried we'll down over the hand. These
come in colors
The new parasols, especially those
in the stylish poDgee tones, are almost
always lined with contrasting tones OF
silk, sometimes shirred and sometimes
put in plain. The outer portions show
a tendency to small embroidered eff
fects and to wide borders of vertical
tucks hemstitched and bordered with
tiny frills of two colors. They also
come 10 white silk and chiffon trimmed
with hounces of lace and appliqued
over with medallions of pongee colored
lace. Nearly all the handles come iu
natural wood. Oriental bands are
among the popular trimmings.
Gray has suddenly jumped into favor
as a swell shade in mems hosiery,
neckwear, shirts and even bathing
suits. The extremely loud and fam
boyant patterns in fancy half hose that
were so eagerly sought for the last two
wears have been relegated to the rear
and the new shades of gray, suede, ser
pent, olive, beaver, cadet and null
berry in fine gauze and isles will be
most accepted styles-some of the fln-
est are made up in self embroidery and
clockings on black gauze and beaver
Suede and cadets are shown with self
clockings. Cadet is a new shade of
gray of about the color of the uniforms
of the cadets at West Point.
The new stiff -bosomed shirts in white
as well as colors will be like the best
models of last year differing only in
the cuffs, where the rounded corner
succeeds the square. As far as fashion
is concerned the square corners will be
as correct as the round point, stripes
will run up and down the bosom and
around the cuffs, some will have the
stripe running up and down the cuff.
This is a question of pattern and not
of STYLE The narrow and neat stripes
look very well running around the cuff,
but broad stripes must the other way.
This will be an oxford season without
question. Growing steadily in popu-
larty for the last few years the low
shoe will be worn more than ever the
coming summer. Cool, comfortable and
stylish, their popularity is based on
merit and worth rather than the result
of fad. Toes will be somewhat mar
rover this year than last. The tide of
fashion in mems wear seems to swing
back and forth. Everyone wore nar-
row toes, then wide toes, and now a
medium toe is in vogue. There is moth
ing doing in tan shoes and they will
be hardly shown. Patent colt and vici
kid will be the fashionable feathers.
In women's shoes the Cuban heel has
supplanted the military heel and there
are seen few French heels.
In sack suits the tendency seems to
be away from the military and in favor
of the longer cut of year or two ago.
The concave shoulder holds its favor
in the best made suit and the long
graceful lapels are seen. The materials
are much the same as last year, dark,
medium and light effects in worsted,