The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-04
The new YORK
FASHION LETTER

Fortunately this year fashion has come
to the rescue of the working and business
women and with little taste and ingenu-
ity they can fit themselves out neatly and
becomingly without cutting too deep into
their bank accounts Shirt waist suits of
linen, canvas or mercerized cotton are their
saving They cost comparatively little
look always neat and trim and wear incred-
IDLY long without losing their freshness
There are two ways of accomplishing the
same end, One is by making up a shirt
waist suit, skirt and waist of the same ma
teral and wear separate waists of different
material, or by making skirt and jacket of
the same material and wear separate waists
of different material with them. These lin
en- suits are great blessing to women who
wish to look neat and cannot afford to
spend much money for clothes. There are.
of course, many other summer materials.
winch can be used for more elaborate sum
mer costumes, but they are invariably rath-
er expensive and not durable enough to
stand the wear and tear of vacation trips
The thinner shades of linen and cotton are
more suitable for the purpose and give bet
ter effects if made up into shirt waist suits.
Two of those suits with two or three ex-
ira shirt waists are about all that work
ing woman requires for her vacation out
fit 1t would scarcely be sufficient for a
summer season at Newport or some other
fashionable resort, but for real outings
they are just the thing The basis for the
suits lends itself tot any amount of elabor-
alton, according to the tastes and the
means of the owner. If hand embroidery
IS used to a considerable extent in trim
ming and Ornamenting the suits. their cost
may be brought up to quite high figure.
But the wise woman will not be too ex-
travagant III trimming her skirts and waist
for vacation wear. Laces look very pretty
on such suits but they are not practical.
as they are rather delicate and cannot
stand hard service. The best plan is to
make the suits as simple as possible with
out making them too shabbily plain. Use no
delicate laces or other trimmings. but
something more substantial, that does not
catch at every blade of grass and does not
tear too easily. AS to the choice of color,
it may be suggested that dark colors
should be avoided as being too hot, while
white and too light colors are not prac-
tlcaDle, because they soil too quickly. The
various grays and browns which are shown
in wonderful variety this year are the
colors best adapted to vacation suits.
Reports from Paris say that the craze
for laces shows no signs of decline There
is scarcely an article of woman's toilet.
excepting her gloves and shoes, that is not
either made of lace or of which lace does
not form an important part Everything
was lace during last winter on the Rivera
and now that summer has come the fad
has been transpanted to Paris 1t is true
there is nothing that adds so much~to the
beauty of a womans costume as lace, APP
propriately applied. but it is a rather ex-
pensve fad, especially if one is not salts
fled with anything but the genuine article.
Genuine laces are expensive, and woman
need not overload her dress with genuine
lace to make it cost a small fortune. But.
after all, only the wealthiest woman will