The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-17

impression for jauntiness that they are
pretty sure to increase i'm favor. a more
striking and general feature of coats is
their shortness. Some of them show almost
as much area of girdle as they do of coat.
Loose coats, pleated or shirred into yokes
are many, and the models that are loose
front and back and that reach 10 the waist
line plentiful The slimpses had of
girdles through the shortness of so many
coats constitute one of the chief differences
between the coming styles and those of a
year ago AS result of this fact there is
much variety in belts and many sorts are
very expensive. White silk belts with gilt
buckles are considered very swagSer. and
white leather ones are hardly less desr-
able. Colored leather belts too. are in the
best of standing, and really good ones are
dlScouragnSly high OF price. Lining or
watered silk appears on many, a If added
merely to increase the cost. Buckles run to
the three and four-pronged sorts.
Fuschia shades, browns, grdys and
greens, the latter often combined with blue,
appear in so many gowns of high grade
that IL is impossible to single out one as
the leading color All are pretty sure to
ishly dressed women. There are other fash
lonable colors, too, so the field in this re-
spect is unusually wide Suggestive of the
choice held out TO shoppers were the gowns
sketched for the accompanying pictures.
The princess gown of the first large picture
was brown panne velvet fecked with white,
Russian lace and velvet medallions trim
ming it. y heavily embroidered pongee in
natural color the next model, and such
are 10 be many for summer Last of these
three was plain blue panne velvet skirt
with fancy jacket of renaissance lace
First in the next group is a fancy waist of
crepe de chine in blue, with embroidered
collar and black velvet ribbon for embel-
lishment. The gowns here, beginning at the
left, were gray, in wolfe, heavily trimmed
with hand embroidery leaf green. in soft
silk, set off with Irish lace. and biscuit col
or; for wolfe that had embroidery of gold
beads and spangles, narrow black velvet
RIBBON appearing as indicated. The natural
color of pongee promises to have especial
favor. and in model dresses receives the
most elaborate trimming.
Length of line is sought for in the new
styles, and yet there is a favor for hori-
zontal trimmings that is the despair of
short women and even of those who are
reasonably tall. if at all inclined to flesh.
For the latter. skirts encircled with many
rows of trimming are not the desira BILE
thing, yet by adhering to this rule a big
share of the available .fancies will be ex-
c1Sed But there are vertical lines in good
standing, and these should be taken adj
vantage of. Many forms of pleated skirts
are very helpful. They stylish. too. and
quite as pretty as some of the arrange
ments that are so cruel to plump wearerS
Having become convinced of the truth of
this, some women surely are going TO Sc
lect a genuinely becoming skirt, with no
trimming to cut them up into sections and
take away the height they already lack
and then put with il bodice in horizontal
treatment. Now it is impossible to state
point blank. that the result will be fail
ure, for current conditions are so varied as
TO insure many exceptions TO all rules, yet
such procedure will be extra hazardous
First, the wearer may be no better suited
for such treatment above the belt than she
Is below. Second, the general rule is for