The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-06-15
SUMNER SHIRT WAIST DRESS.
Mary Annable FantOn'S Suggestions as to
Latest Triumph of Season.

This is the most. triumphant sea-
so1 Of the shirt-waist suit. 1t has
claimed every material, every color,
every various trimming device; it is
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 on 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
half. This is the smartest shirt
waist skirt that has ever been de-
vised. It was made the vogue last
winter by the pretty French act
ress, who danced rag-time with
adorable chicness and was a bril-
liant comedian as we'll
All of Nine. Wiehe's street
frocks on the stage" were distinctly
short, and always an inch shorter
at the back than III the front. Some
were plated and others circular,
and occasionally the dark tailor
made tweeds were lined with vivid
red or daffodil-yellow, with frou-
frOu petticOat to match.
These skirts were so new and so
smart, and yet strange enough, for
fashion from Paris, so sensible that
their vogue was instantaneous and
permanent. Nine. Wiehe had not
finished her engagement atMrs. Os-
born's doll playhouse when her
songs were being whistled on
Broadway and her chic little butter
fly skirts copied on Fifth avenue.
A shirt waist suit with a long
S Sirt is the exception. No matter
what the style of the waist, the
skirt escapes. 1t is so wholesome,
so comfortable and so smartly pref
ty fashion that one marvels if
womel will have the courage to re
turn to the heavy dragging skirts
again, but they will. Common
sense does not mean permanancy in
a fashion.
The type of American girl who is
just now the fashion is broad over
the shoulder, full over the bust,
straight in the spine, and moderate
ly small about the hips. The new
gowns all accent this figure. The
waists are very broad at the shout
ders, many of them dropping down
on the arms 1880 style, and loose at
the chest
And the waist line of the modern
girl is a good four-inches larger
than her mothers was at her age.
It is comfortable waist that doesn t
suggest dyspepsia and twisted
frame work.
The skirt of the shirt-wais suit
is like the figure of the athlete girl.
slender about the hips, not thin so
that her clothes drag in shapeless
fashion, but trim and distinctly
small in proportion to her fine
shoulders.
Pongee is fashionable TO the point
of being vogue for these suits. In
every color and in the natural raw
silk hue. 1t wears well and is
graceful and not common. And
linen is good style also, in colors
and in all its own shades, and crash
and chambray, 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, al little full
ness at the shoulder, very little at
the cuff. and a marked,1and very
comfortable breadth at the elbow.
With white taffeta stocks, there
are leather crush belts to match in
color, and if you are very smart
your petticoat is the same color.
With linen and pongee, tan belts