The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

If you are English. you call it a
blouse. II you are really and truly
American, it is just plain shirt waist.
By either name. the feminine world
loves it as well.
Dame Fashion has done her best,
seconded by famous modistes, to sound
the doom of the separate waist, hut
each summer this economical and alto
gether satisfactory feature of the hot
weather wardrobe rises triumphant
above criticism.
Inasmuch as there is a distinct vogue
for common tint in skirt and waist.
all the inventive skill of designers and
manufacturers has aimed to carry this
arrangement into the summer blouses.
There is a bewildering array of white
waists to be worn with white skirts;
exquisite silk and wool fabrics and silks
to combine with white cloth skirts; the
smartest of ducks and linens TO wear
with washable pedestrian skirts; and
for the white taffetas and foulard skirts
there comes a most enticing collection
of lace weavee, silk-striped grenadines,
nets, lawns. organdies aud dimities.
For the Summer Girl.
For instance. the summer girl, with
hops in view at the country club or
the athletic club house, will make her
pretty skirt of white serge do for va
rious occasions. Is it a tennis tour
ney at which she would look particu-
larly fit and we'll groomed? She Will
wear with her white serge skirt a
blouse of silk and wool in the same
shade of white.
The deep 1880 yoke, pointed back and
front and running down over the
shoulder, will be quite plain and
smooth and outlined with a heavy,
conventional pattern in embroidery or
silk applique. The blouse is tucked
from this yoke to the waist line. and
an embroidered cuff. with a crush silk
belt completes the simple costume.
II it is the informal evening hop,
she wears with the same skirt blouse
of thin, clinging silk, such as India or
China silk. The yoke is fashioned from
strips of silk half an inch wide Joined
by fagoting and patterned at the front
point of the yoke in a great boW-knot.
The finest of tucks run from yoke edge
TO waist line where they fly open, Civ
ing a pretty bIoused effect. Lace me-
dallions may be added. but the fagot-
ing and tucks are sufficient for waist
that is to be worn at an informal
dance.
The Black Skirt a Necessity.
For wear with the black skirt, which
is a positive necessity winter or sum-
mer for every well-dressed woman,
there are DAINTY studies in soft silks
and mousselines. The woman who re-
joiced in pointed effects should try
this pattern.
The foundation is a lining of light
weight Indian silk-black, of course
and over this is shirred yoke Of
mousseline de soire, which falls well
over the shoulders, and in the front
reaches to a point considerably below
the bust line.
This yoke is shirred only at the
neck and where it meets the blouse
proper. The latter is formed of
gauged or shirred mousseline, with
the cords about three inches apart.
each shirring following the pointed
lines of the yoke. In this way a wom-
an may enjoy the fashionable shirred
effects and still retain the long, slen-
der lines of her figure.
The sleeve is bloused and caught
into a deep, pointed cuff of black gui-
pure lace. A pointed collar of the
same lace and a gauzy, black hair or
nament will change the simple black
taffeta silk, with it's pinked ruchings,
into dignified dinner toilette.
A black crepe messaline blouse has
a simulated yoke, made from innumer-
able little tucks coming to a point in
toward the shoulder until they form
lining the yoke effect are appliques of