Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-06-09
summer shirt-waist Dress
BY MARY AssABLE YAsros.

M MARI ANAAn14Z NANAOMs
This Is the most triumphant sea
son Of the shirt. waist suit. 1t has
claimed every material, every color,
every various trimming device; tits
plain and fancy, two dollars and
one hundred dollars. 1t is worn
for the Office and for the afternoon
tea. 1t is seen at church and the
golf course.
The very newest are made with
short skirts. The Wiehe model,
which escapes an inch in front and
tits up at the back full inch and a
half. This is the smartest shirt
waist skirts that has ever been de-
vised. Ii was made the vogue last
winter by the pretty French actress,
who danced rag time with adorable
chicness and was a brilliant come
dian as well.
All OF Nine. Wiehe's street
frocks" on the stage were distinctly
short, and always an inch shorter at
the back than in the front. Some
were plated and others circular,
and occasionally tho dark tailor
made tweeds were lined with vivid
red or dafTodil-yellow, with a frou-
frou petticoat TO match.
These skirts we're so new and so
smart, and yet strange enough, for
fashion from Paris, SO sensible that
their vogue was instantaneous and
permanent. Nine. Wiche had not
finished her engagement at Mrs.
Osborn s doll play house when her
songs were being whistled on Broad
way and her chic little butterfly
skirts copied on Fifth Avenue.
A shirt-waist with long skirt is
the exception. No matter what the |
style of the waist, the skirtescapes.
IL is so wholesome, so comfortable |
and so smartly pretty fashion that |
one marvels if women will have the |
, courage to return to the heavy drag
ging skirts again-but they will. Com
mon sense does not mean perma-
nency in fashion.
The type of American girl who is
just now the fashion is broad over
the shoulders, full over the bust,
straight in the spine, and modera-
tely small about the hips. The new
gowns ALI accent this figure. The
waists are very broad at the shout
ders, many of them dropping down
on the arms 1880 style, and loose al
the chest.
And the waist-line of the modern
girl is good four inches larger
than her mothers was at her age.
It's comfortable waist that doesn't
suggest dyspepsia and a twisted
frame work.
The skirts of the shirt waist suit
is like the figure of the athlete girl,
slender about the hips, not thin so
that her clothes drag in a shapeless
fashion, but trim and distinctly
small in proportion to her fine
shoulders.
Pongee is fashionable to the poin,
of being q vogue for these suits.
In every color ard in the natural
raw-silk hue. Itwears and is grace
full and not common. And linen is
good style also, in colors and in ali
its own shades, and crash and cham
bray, gingham, cotton cheviot, tweed
and vesting.
The fancy waists usually button
in the back and the plain ones fol.
low the simple shirt-waist models
with shirt sleeves and a buttonhole
plat. They are all unlined in waist
and skirt and made so that they will
launder without ripping apart and
the sleeves are usually this summer S
new design, little fitness at the
shoulder, very little at the cuff, and
q marked and very comfortable
breadth ut the elbow.
With white taffeta stocks, there
are leather crush belts to match in
color. and IL you are very smart your
petticoat is the same color. With
linen and pongee, tan belts and
white Madras stocks are. worn, and
with dark silk suits, stock and belts
match or are of Oriental design.
There is also q bit of fad for gold
and silver braid belts with gold and
silver bullet buttons on the linen
frocks. It's new and pretty and not
as SNOWY as it sounds.
The prettiest footwear with the
shirt-waist suits is tan, or cham
pagne-color or white, the latter in