The Washington times., 1904-05-15

And before purchasing pay a visit to
the real lace counter and study the
patterns and the designs. the texture
and the foundation. Familiarize your
self with the appearance of the real
lace. Then, when you have learned
this. pay your visit TO the counters upon
which the imitation lace is displayed.
You will be able all the better to pick
out a lace that looks like real. A les
son of this kind is very valuable one
for the woman who is buying imita-
tin laces and one which could not fail
&c profit her IN the seasons buying.
English Embroidery.
Embroidery of all kinds is being worn,
but the most popular embroidery of the
London season is English embroidery.
This Is the old fashioned eyelet embroid-
cry, and it is seen upon the edges of all
materials from linen TO silk. Linens,
very fine and almost webby in texture,
are lovely embroidered in eyelet work.
silks are also very handsome. and they
take eyelet embroidery well. Skirts OF
summer goods are embroidered in this
eyelet or English embroidery, twelve
and fourteen inches deep. and are worn
over white or over a color.
making up her summer wardrobe is
found in the lessons to be learned in the
London season. This is regarding lin
ings. The best Innings now are those
that are lowered in pattern. Lovely
Powered silks. showing great, sprawling
irregular silk roses, are used to line
linens. lawns. and all sorts of sheer
goods
In buying your Innings then get the
Powered ones. for they look dressier,
show of the fabric better. and are new
er than the old-fashioned sort.
Linen Gowns.
In glancing over the seasons cos
tunes there is one thing 70 be specially
noted, and this Is the great prepon-
derance of linen gowns over all others
There are six linens to one Of any other
material.
For evening there are sheer linens. the
Oriental linens. and the linens from In
dia- For afternoon there are linens that
look like lawn and there are linen eta
mines which look like etamine. but
which wash like linen. And then. there
are linens that are like crash, and that
are just the thing for the athletic girl.
Nor is the list OF linens all told. for
l.
the coarse heavy stuff which is. though
common, somehow decidedly elegant
when made up In travelling gowns and
yachting costumes. There are linens
with great nubs of thread sticking out
on them. IN a color of tan or biscuit
shade; and these linens when trim
med with claret colored pipings, or
with bands of golden brown with a
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as any costume that could be invented.
The Gowns fox Evening.
But IN looking over the seasons
styles. It is toward the evening gowns
and the evening bodices that ones eyes
instinetively turn. They are so lovely.
so becoming, so easily made. and so de-
lightful when worn that woman can be
pardoned II she forgets the useful gowns
in study Of the ornamental
''I wish II were evening all the day"
murmured a fashionable woman, look
ing at her image in the long glass. II
am sure could live forever in a gown
as sweet as this
And sweet it certainly vast The
color a champagne tint. was exquisite
| ~ shown in the sheen OF a beautiful
piece OF peau de cygne. which made up
the skirt and the waist And. everything
the lovely champagne tints. there were
yards and yards OF lace, fine Valen-
ciennes. Aleneon, Chantilly and Mech
lin all combined in one lovely lace trim
ming. How so many. and such widely
varying laces could be put together In
one gown none could tell, except the ar
list who designed 1t, for II was certainly
the conception of an artist
Shoulders Cut Low.
The shoulders of evening gowns are
cut shockingly low, yet they are saved
from immodesty by the fact that they
are not as low as they appear to be.
A gown that appears to be cut TO show
the shoulders is really only cut mod
erately low. The low effect ~ sStalned