The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-27
Fashions DEGREES on What to Wear;
Gossip on Subject Of Pretty Gowns

Paris yoke. and a shiTred white crepe de
chine set off with chiffon fiounces. Ruch-
ings OF practically any of the soft dress
materials are employed trimming, and
the ornamentation of their edges is varied
considerably. Ruched ribbons are in good
standing. also. though not so often en-
ployed as are the other sort.
The founcings of the news skirts soon to
be shown are going to make big impress
sion. They will be numerous and will seem
remarkable for their lightness. Still they
will bear trimming of ruffiing, ruching or
futing. and will be remarkably complex
when the wearer's taste and purse admit.
The question of taste may soon come In
to check the current shirring, which at
times is INDUCED so recklessly as to enforce
the impression that the dress material
was purchased more because of its stability
for this treatment than for its beauty In
the piece. This certainly seems like run
ming a fashion pretty hard but stylish
Gressers set this pace. Other mediums OF
obtaining f1uffiness are in like danger OF
being overdone, too, for so much OF light
ness may come to seem like bulk instead,
and when this is the case the original in
tent is quite defeated,
All these embellishments do not have the
effect to lessen the use of lace, which is as
finely serviceable as ever. Indeed, that is
an important point: if the establishment
of the materials was all the embellishments
a stylish gown received ii would not be too
much, but with lace and embroidery galore
added, possibility Of overwhelming is pre-
scented. About the middle of the winter 1T
seemed as if the heavier laces would have
a certain freakish preference in summer
standards. but more sensible taste seems to
have prevailed, and the laces now presented
as especially stylish are of filmy web for
the most part. Touches of gold thread ap-
pear in these at times. and the dyed sorts
retain to the full the vogue they were so
long in attaining. There are novelties in
laces, too, in which it would seem that the
costly web itself was not enough, but that
it must be combined with embroidery or
with buttons or other trimming as to
be new in character. But the prices of
these trimmings prohibit their use by most
women, handsome as some of them are.
Embroideries are numerous as to sorts,
with fair share of new ones. Hardly
name to some form of embroidery in stylish
put it that the name of the states are
taken for certain trimmings. The newest
sorts come named for Europe's frozen
north. New cotton embroideries are much
varied and have good ornamental value.
Taffeta is again to the fore silk for
summer wear and is going to be much
worn for shirtwaist suits, especially in
dotted and checked weaves. Taffeta is to
be used a deal, too, for foundation dresses
for the seasons numerous transparent and
semi-transparent fabrics. In linens, while
there numerous weaves very like the
admirable ones of last summer, novelties
are not lacking, and they likely will in
crease as summer approaches, now that
the stylishness of linens is assured. 1t is
worth while to study the offerings of these
fabrics being guided by the fact, if novel
ty is sought, that it will take rather fam
ciful one to count as that.
New York March %