The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-29


| be only a short time to wear them i
is unsafe to calculate upon holding
them over for next season on accoun,
of the uncertainty of making over
This season it has been almost next
! 10 impossible to do over last years
frocks, for although, they are a little
less than archaic now.
A fabric which will be apropos late
| in the season, however, is shantung
| This is very desirable in natural color
shot with oblong dots of deep red
blue and green.
Quite an effective skirt of this ma
| terial has the fullness taken up in tiny
tucks around the hips and is close
| fitting to the knees where it flares into
graduated ruffle. Above the hem
| of the fiOunce medallons of cream
! lace are appliqued and over these
are designs of white lace of different
variety Where the foundation medal
! lion. as it were, extends beyond the
| upper one, the design is stitched
| with pale blue and navy silk threads
| to gain a complicated, but very ela-
giant effect.
The same idea is carried out on the
bodice which has round yoke below
which it is shirred back and front.
The sleeves are trimmed in the same
way at the shoulders and below the
elbow where the pig puffs hangs there
are inset the cream and white lace
appliQues with the silk stitching.
Lace continues to be a favorite
trimming, but the select fancy in
clines toward the renaissance effects.
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for many of the patterns are made
from my lady's own designs and are
necessarily exclusive. Linen dresses
have appliQues of the heavy braids,
while the duchess and honiton braids
are used for organizes, mulls and
mOuSSelineS.
1t is also noticeable that some form
Of embroidery is almost invariably
com bined with the lace trimmings.
Tor Instance with the cOarser bralds
medalliOns French nnOtS or petit pOls
are used to outline an entirely dis
tinct design, though all is interviewer
IN the lace. There is not very de-
cided contrast of colOring between
embroidery and lace-just enough
difference to differentiate between the
designs of the two.
A fabric which sets Off to advan-
tage the cream and white lace trim
mings is black dotted suisse. The
very fine or piA.-2ads are considered
the most chic. an elegant gown is
carried out in ;is material. The
bodice has a soliI yoke of heavy lace
with liberty satin ribbon run through
the meshes, half way from neck to
bust line, and tied in front with ends
that droop to any desired length,
though in this instance they reached
only to the waistline. From the yoke
there falls a deep bertha ruffle Of
suisse cut to hang in deep points, one
ever each shoulder extending down the
arm nearly to the elbows. There is
one deep point in the back while two
adorn the front. This rufflle is edged
with a two inch fold joined to the Der
tha proper by fine black silk faggot
ting.
There is a shaped girdle which is
laid in folds and slipped through
narrow Jet slides. The fullness of the
bodice is shirred on cords over the
hips and the sleeves are shirred on
similar cords above the elbows.
The skirt which is shirred over the
hips, is finished with two deep fiOunCes
each starting from three cords and
each edged with a deep fold Joined
by black faggOtting to the ruflles.
Under the lower fiounce with a full
cuche at it's edges. A fat hat of
black point d'esprit and tulle, shirred,
and trimmed with cream lace and pink
rosebuds completes the toilette.
One of the prettiest dresses of the
season is carried out in cornflower
blue silk null of inexpensive quality.
Ihe bodice is made over fitted lin
ing of blue lawn and shirred
Jack and front to accommodate
IN irregular shaped yoke Strips
Of lace and bands Of the mOusseline
compose the yoke and these are Joined
together by means of French knots
placed very close together. Below
the Stirring at the front on either
side of the plated vest are large fan
ciful designs executed in cream white
lace.
The skirt is shirred over the hips,
then twice again, the lower row eN-
tending around the knees. At the
bottom it falls in graceful folds TO the
floor with a deni-train. The sleeves
are luCk0u d lew luCu6S D6lOW tIS
shoulders, then again at the elbows
and finished below in a deep puff shir-
red above the lace cuffs which COM
pletes it. A fine white straw with
broad brim is worn with the dress.
Its only decoration is an immense
blue plume that is laid straight across
the crown to curl under the brim.
Some of the summer weight wool
forkes are so close fitting as to be al
most princess in effect. They require
a perfect figure, but what with physi-
cal culture. specially fitted corsets
and pads, the woman who cannot
bring her figure up to the require
ments is indeed lacking in ingenuity
Irvine color canvass cloth is used
for an afternoon dress that almost
hugs the figure. Four narrow box
plaits pressed, but not stitched in, eX-
tend from the neck to the hem Of the
scantly trailin skirt In the front of
the bodice which blouses little there
are also four box plaits divided in