The Jersey City news., 1904-03-02
IENTEN FANCIES
Airy, Fairy Fabrics Brought
Out By the. Flight Of
Fashions South
ward.
BEAUTIFUL MORNING BLOUsES
Luncheon Frocks of the New
Silks Dinner Gowns of
Every Variety.
MORNING BLOUSES


when the pail of the Lent has fallen
upon the friyolity of the smart set for
the members of the same set to HE
themselves South, where the sun shines
and the baimy bteezes blow With
the thermometer coquetting with the
zero mark up North and at the same
time lowering in the nineties down South
it does not need prophet or a seer to
foretell the many changes of costume
that Intervene between the two.
Hence it is that each year prepara-
tions are made earlier for the fashion
able hegira; that the airy, filmy fabrics
of summer time are most temptingly dis
played in windows thar are covered with
ice, perhaps. The smart girl who main
tains her place in the front ranks of the
modishly garbed gives her very earnest
attention to her Southern wardrobe, for
we'll she knows that if judiciously select
ed those very same gowns will see her
far throught the summer season.
A peep into the trunks that are being
packed with all the dainty, summery
things that help to make life in the trop-
les endurable would reveal many hints of
new fashions. current and to come. There
are smart linen gowns for morning wear.
Some of these fashioned upon the shirt
waist suit, but this new seasons shirt
waist suit is a far more elaborate af-
fair than was the one. of last year.
Others have the coat and skirt, the lit
tie lingerie blouse being worn beneath,
and to be correct the linen coat and skirt
must be just as skillfully tailored as the
gown of tweed or cheviot
Speaking of the lingerie blouse, this is
a little garment which has made for it
self an especial place in the fancy of the
fashionable girl. and distractingly pretty
are the models prepared for Southern
wear during Lent and after There is
simply no end to the materials in which
they are to be produced, but perhaps the
Favorite is the very fine French batiste
clair. fabric that is much like hand
kerchief linen. only that it is woven of
cotton. This lends itself admirably to
handwork. which is more than ever the
fad of the moment. and the daintiest of
hand embroideries, fagotting, Mexican
arawn-work. Matterhorn and Teneriffe
insertions are to be utilized in thousand
and one ways. Particularly in the High
land embroidered shirts are they most
fetching.
For the cool mornings. which come
sometimes even in the tropics, the new
olouses of soielaine will find an enthu-
siastic reception. These. too, are pre-
ferably handmade. and adorned with the
new ribbon trimming are at once smart
and comfortable. With the revival of
the early Victorian styles there has also
come revival of many of the fads and
fancies of that period. and one of the
most obvious of these is the fad for
handmade things, and needle craft of
svery description. The little shir-
red puffings of ribbon. which, need
less to indicate, must be fash
Eoned and applied by hand, ap-
pear to excellent advantage on the
soielaine A pretty model has a round
yoke effect achieved in shirred tucks
made over a thick cord. The fulness
resulting is brought down snugly to the
belt in the back, while the fronts sag
just little bit into the belt. The fas-
tening being in the back, the fronts pre-
sent an unbroken field for decoration,
and here the shirred ribbon is applied in
the conventional feur-de-lis pattern, the
twisted loops being filled in with spider
webs worked in heavy silk. The full
puff sleeves are similarly decorated, and
the quaint cuff is puffed shirring of the
soielaine.
AS at all season resorts. ge they sum
mer or winter, luncheon and dinner are
The features of the programme for the
day, and the gowns for these appear
ances are cerefully selected. Those for
luncheon, while, of course, they are not
expected to show the same amount of