The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-31

F., Even such a little thing as wearing 4 chou
/ of flmy tulle with a linen shirt-waist suit
| would have much to do with spelling its
perfect effect.
With the cotton shirt-waist suits the EN-
broidered linen belt and collar is the best
taste.
A leather belt is the next choice and the
very newest thing right now is the wide.
unlined leather belt.
Ii must be sufficiently pliabie to cling to
the figure and 1t must be twice as wide as
1t was last summer.
| Pretty belts of linen shoe strings. say in
black and white. are a novel accessory to
the Shirt-waist girls costume.
Belts of stitched taffeta are also worn
ana very many linen belts. embroidered in
French knots.
White calf belts. fastening with heavy
mother-oi- pearl harm. buckles. are an
other fad Of the moment.
Many of the smarte.t looking s%hirt-waist
suits are Trimmed with pearl buttons. and
when the shirt waist does not fasten in
front with these big. effective buttons then
1t fastens up the back with tiny pearl but
tons.
The new shirt waists are all cut to give
the broad shoulder effect and to emphasize
length OF line under the arm.
Inc very bagsy blouse Is not as conspicu-
Gus as ii was. out the shirt-waist sleeve
has gained in fui,ness what the blouse has
lost.
Many times the long sloping shoulder ef-
feet IS produced by he which
frequently tahes the form OF a tab-shaped
strap.
sHIRT-wAIST SETS ARE
ATTRACTIVE ACCESSORIES.
Snirt-waist sets are among the attractive
diess accessories 10 tempt the modish g,rl.
They consist of buttons for the front of
the shirt vast, cum buttons and belt pin.
mud V,u- n hale
three little pins for fastening the stock are
ADDED.
There is simply no end to the variety of
these ehlrt-waist sets.
come are VI Imlta,.on turquoise set in
silver rims: others are of jade IN an an
tique GOLD setting, and still others are of
siay-hnished SILVER. representing flowers
such az sweet peas, carnations and viole.s
in snape.
Inc sun-metal sets studded with rhine
STOKES are also much in favor.
The smart-lLoking shirt-waist girl is lust
as particular in selecting her hat as she
l. in choosing her dress.
1t l. a risiu \ uie with her that they are
IN keeping with one another.
ii Is quite permissible that she wear what
L. known as d SOFT picturesque lingerie hat
OF embroidery and ribbons with one of the
fiimy shirt waists with FRAMEWORK irsets
and transparent collars, which need ,lst a
pt VI julie v HO.ul tHetn III pluCe. .
But with the s~hirt-waist suit of any of
the heavier cotton fabrics it Is imperative
that she wear a smart '.stIf" shirt-waist
hat.
These hats are good style in two con-
trasting colors or two shades of the same
color of straw braid. and they look well
trimmed with wings, straw buttons or vel
vet ribbon.
Although she has hats a-plenty. when she
elects to go bareheaded in the woods sic
pins a hair net carefully over her fluny
pcmpadour and over the Langtry coil at
the neck.
Neatness and trigness being her distin-
gushing marks. needless to say her skirts
show a binding at the hem. and Ler ur6er-
skirts have the new PaQuin Interi:ning to
give the requisite flare.
Then there is her ~parasol. which means
SO much to the shirt waist girl.
II she can afford it. she should have Just
as many p~arasols as she has shiTt-waist
suits. and though they need not necessarily
match. yet 1t Is pretty to have tie same
color reflected in each.
II her shirt-waist suit. for example. is