Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-27
THE FANcIEs OF FASHION.
Hevv Ideas in Dress That Will Be i'm
 Vogue for the Summer Season. .fs

New designs in choice summer silks, woven both in this country and abroad, show wonderful effects of shaded flowers and foliage on opal gray, pale violet, sea-green, and other delicate backgrounds. Eglan- tine, honeysuckle, lilac, orchid, haw- thorn, and apple blossoms, etc, are reproduced with great fidelity, even the minutest detail, with all the skill of hand painting, reports the New York Post.
 The basket-woven wools in two col or combinations are among the most attractive of the seasons materials, particularly those in soft rose color mixed with stem green, champagne with sea-green, and blue with white and gun-metal gray. English whip cords with round threads closely twilled-forming nearly smooth surface that repels dust-are exhib- ited in light spring and summer weights and in artistic shades of color. The shopping and travelling costumes made of these materials show -gored skirt with two box-plaits at the back. The collarless open jacket has a shoulder cape of plain goods matching the background of the material, edged with rows of silk braid whose colors repeat those of the round-threaded cords.
 White and delicately tinted chiffon in the form of various kinds of shaded roses and other flowers, some with jeweled centers made to resem- ble dew, are used in applique effects on new French evening gowns of lace net, and liberty satin.
 New ulsters appear in a variety of forms, and many are ~ather ornate in effect. Pendant gimp ornamentatfon has found it's way upon the ulster-a wrap that was formerly supposed to be too much of a ough-and-ready util- ity garment to adapt itself to any species of decoration. Military braid work and applique designs in soutache are on the fronts of French tailor made ulsters, the trimming narrow ing in from the shoulders to the waist. An attractive model in stem green cloth of light weight is trimmed with black cords and frogs. The sleeves only of the garment are lined.
 The reign of the stole-fronted shoul- der cape is likely to be prolonged in- definitely. It wiG certainly continue through the hot weather, for the i'm porting houses show expensive mod els in lace, silk and net. The cape in etamine, grenadine, silk and wool cam vas, etc, is a more economical gar ment, and some of these wraps are tastefully lined with silk, the fronts re- vealing a pleasing accentuation of color. Paper patterns of many of the stole-fropted capes are set forth sby American designers. These are graceful in shape and perfectly ad- justed, and it does not require many yards of material to make the wrap. These small garments are often made to match the costume, and a wrap en suit is not only refined in appearance, but fashionable also.
 Sashes of plaited, striped, or flow cred taffeta, soft, flexible liberty silk, chiffon, null, or other transparent ma terial, are one of the special features of "dress" gowns for the summer. Many of these accessories appear as sashes alone, but quite as often they are in the form of scarf-ends joined
 
 to fchus, berthas, surplice waists, or fanciful bolero jackets of lace and in sertion. These sashes may be black, white, pastel-tinted, or of fabric matching the gown. The black ones are made effective by trimming them with delicate applique designs of col ored silk embroidery or lace in con- trast-white or black-or the reverse. The wide sashes of crepe de chine with deeply fringed silk ends and elabo- rately netted tops are sold in boxed patterns, and are the most expensive, being hand wrought. They are grace full and attractive, however, in any form, and add much to the charm of the delicate day and evening gowns prepared for next season.
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