The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-17
GOWNS OF LIGHT TEXTURE.
Though Elaborate in Design, They
Might BE Put Through
Finger Ring.

Might BE Put Through a
Finger Ring.
American women stand preeminent
in one respect at least over their sisters
in other parts of the world. The French
demoiselles may surpass them in dar-
ing costumes, the English in neatness,
but for extravaganza the American
woman is without rival. The gown OF
a seaside girl the present season is al
most worth its weight In precious
stones, says fashion authority.
Seven ounces is the least her sum-
quite correct is the most, says one au-
thority-but what she may pay for these
few ounces is another matter. Her
modiste's bills will run along in the
eighties and hundreds for even the sew
en-ounce gown.
You cannot put gown through
wedding ring, as you could the proverb-
ial white null of your grandmother's
time, but you can hardly feel its weight
as you pick up waist and skirt of a chif-
fony texture, made over chiffon skirts
and worn with a chiffony expression.
The object of the ten-ounce gown Is,
first. comfort. In hot weather the less
you wear the more comfortable you are
that is mere fact. But the texture
this gown is made of determines its ex-
pense and the underskirts play great
part in the experience as well as in the
expense of the gown.
A pretty gown in one Of the closets
of Partisan modiste is made OF cream
lace net as fine as a spiders web and is
| embroidered in the lightest floss with
dainty thistle pattern. The embroidery
| adds almost nothing to the weight OF the
gown and gives just the touch of trim
ming necessary.
| Then there are the pineapple gauzes
| that look so simple and are really elab-
crate and expensive and mean deal OF
labor. They weigh scarcely more than
feather, but their cost would make the
scales dip heavily.
White pineapple gauze and chiffon,
a combination of two expensive
stuffs, made beautiful gown. The un-
derskirts are made of the finest of lawn,
weighing scarcely more than the gauze,
and are ruffied with single thread lace
effective and light. There are no tucks
in the underskirts; they would be toe
heavy The plain ruffie without inser-
tion and only the lace edging is much
In favor.
| The pineapple gauze gown may be
trimmed as elaborately with lace as may
suit the wearer's fancy, provided she
does not buy lace that weighs much
This is prohibited and only the lightest
daintiest, and, of course, the most ex.
pensive laces are used.
Chiffon takes the place greatly of lace
and, with pineapple gauze, is made ove1
a drop skirt of white silk. Between thu
drop skirt and the outer skirt is an in
terlining Of chiffon that falls in billowy
fullness at the bottom and makes lac,
rutfles unnecessary.
A yard of chiffon weighs but frac
tion of an ounce. You can utilize goot
many yards in making an ounce, ant
seven ounces is enough for gown. Ac
contemplated dresses are being mad
in these thin, light fabrics.
Aside from the gowns of lace net ant
chiffon there are those made entirely o
lace. A Cluny lace gown will cost $20C
, perhaps, but to the summer girl VIII
|, aims at lightweight clothes this is N
objection, and nothing could be hand
somer than a cream Cluny lace cow
made over pale pink chiffon, and sure
ly nothing could weigh less.
The young girl is not alone in wear
,, ing these gowns. The woman who pre-
! fers dark colors can wear them too.
black lace dress made white point lac
trimming is beautiful for dinner gowI
and surely nothing can be lighter /
!. weight than black thread lace over chit
. fon.
: A yoke of lace extending over the hi
weighs nearly nothing; it fits well an
!, on to this may be gathered the soft ms
terial. Three or four deep shirrs accom-
plish the same effect and lend variet.
: and yoke made Of little tucksis pre-
. ty. The tucks may be as deep or as sha
low as the wearer wishes and accom-
= plish the same end of giving the fu
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