The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-16
FRocKs FOR THE GIRL WITH SHORT VACATION
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s The girl with short vacation must
select her summer gowns with particulars,
care. She must consider well their app
propriateness and their adaptabilfty She
cannot take many gowns with her, and
those she does pack away in her small
trunk must be just the right thing for
the right occasion.
In planning her summer vacation ward
robe. strange to say. it is the buttons
that count If she aims to keep pace with
the advance fashions. 1t is not that but
tons make her frocks appropriate, but,
that buttons give her gowns the newest
finishing touch of style. Big buttons and
little buttons, plain buttons and orna-
mental buttons, are all used, and for pearl
buttons there Is perfect craze. They
are used not only In the conventional way
Of fastening the bodice or coat, but as
trimming for the skirt In fact, wher-
ever there is a possible excuse for them,
pearl buttons are to be found this year
II the girl with a short vacation can
have but one shirt-waist suit she will
be wise to have it made Of wash silk, for
she can wear a silk gown on many occa-
s1ons, even If 1t is made in shirtwaist
style, when a linen or crash dress would
be bad form. A good style model to copy
Is made Of ecru wash silk; the gored
skirt Is light and cool; it is made very
plain and unlined. 1t is close fitting, with
no fulness until below the knees where
a box plat Is inserted at each gore, the
box plait headed with stitched dia-
mond-shaped piece of the silk. The shirt
waist is made without the exaggerated
blouse and shows the pretty lines of the
new French curve figure
The waist has a box-plait down the
| front, with a group of narrower plaits at
either side. It is trimmed with narrow
white silk braid to simulate yoke, and on
the box plat arranged in two groups are
big pearl buttons. This dress is not at
all inappropriate for morning wear, and
yet it is equally good style for almost any
| informal afternoon occasion.
In making up a gown Of this sort, where
the skirt Is of lightweight silk, unlined,
the petticoat requires special attention.
It must be- fitted over the hips as care
| fully as the dress skirt. There must be
positively no fulness at the waistline,
while at the bottom there may be one
deep founce, or many featherbone
/ stiffened rufhes.
The selection Of a new coat for two
weeks vacation is, indeed, a problem for
! the girl of limited income. OF course.
much depnds upon where she is going
and whether or not she has a jacket left
over from last season, which could be-
! used very we'll for knockabout coat. If
| she happens to have a covert cloth Jacket
she can afford to buy one of the very
new smart looking, loose fitting long
coats OF Dlack taHeta. She can use a
] coat of this sort as a travelling wrap, as
it will shed dust and rain and is cool and
i comfortable. She can also put it to good
use during her two weeks vacation, not
only as a driving coat, but to wear over
her light summer dancing gown in going
from one hotel to the other in the even
ing.
The fashionable black taffeta coat en-
phasizes the button craze. It is double
breasted and fastens with big black taf-
\ feta covered buttons, while the collar and
wide cuffs Of the coat are trimmed with
groups of small black taffeta buttons.
The coat is a loose fitting garment and
madesswith a. double cape collar to give
the long sloping shoulder effect.
Of course, she must have a smart look
ing travelling dress, and for this no mate
rial is better suited than dark blue mo-