Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-06-21
NEW YORK FASHION LETTER

an excellent plan to wear plain lin
en- suit for travelling and as little hand
baggage as possible. Do not neglect
to carry one or two suits of a trifie
heavier underwear in your trunk, be-
sides several changes of the light kind
as change of temperature are liable
to take place, particularly after
thunder storms.
Linen shirt waist suits are said to
be unusually popular among the Wis
itors of the st. Louis exposition. These
suits are highly practical and better
suited for the hard wear to which
they are naturally subjected on such
occasions than dresses and waists of
other materials. Shirt waists or
blouses of delicate and soft materials
although, perhaps more dressy and
ornamental, soon lose tneir freshness
and look wilted and bedraggled after
half days wear in hot summer
weather. Linen waists and skirts re-
tain their freshness much longer and
can easily be washed and freshened.
Never before have China and Japan
contributed so extensively to occident.
al fashions as at the present time.
Japan, in particular is well repre-
sented among the novelties Of the
season in various lines. This does
not refer to the various styles of XII
monas and other negligee garments
borrowed from Japan, but to contri'
buttons in fields heretofore unin-
+ fiuenced by oriental fashions.
Several new dress materials in silks
and other fabrics, made in Japan or
] China are in the market and promise
to become extremely popular. Then
there is a wonderful variety of woven
or embroidered trimmings, character.
istically Japanese in their color
schemes and decorative patterns,
which threatens to revolutionize the
style of the day. Cherry blossoms
and chrysanthemum patterns from
Japan, woven or embroidered patterns
of dragons from China, belt buckles
of characteristic Japanese or Chinese
designs, parasol handles, with Japan
ese or Chinese carvings in ivory or
some oriental wood and even hats of
split bamboo and silk, imported from
Japan, are shown in the shops and all
OF those novelties are so beautiful and
attractive, that they find ready pur.
chasers.
Shoulder bangles are the latest nov
city in ornamental grins and when
Woman's Home Companion devotes
the following paragraph TO it:
"A little new touch that will count
in giving fresh look to a party
gown is shoulder dangle, A simple
one is made of narrow black velvet
ribbon. There are two shoulder straps
and tow ends of different lengths
Each end is finished with a rosette
OF the ribbon, and the two ends are
caught with another rosette just at
the top of the low cut bodice. The
shoulder dangle is worn just at the
left side and fastens at the back OF
the bodice, as we'll as being tackled in
front This shoulder dangle shows to
its best advantage when worn with
an all white gown. Il also gives a girl
an excuse to introduce her favorite
color in her frocR in an original way
The hight. soft ribbons are effective
for this very odd little dress aeoes
sorry, For the girl the design OF whose
gown will not allow OF a shoulder
dangle there is a smaller dangle fol
for the sleeve. The sleeve dangle
is used as a finish for an elbow sleeve
An exceptionally pretty dangle which
finished a sleeve belonging to a gown