Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-30
inexpensive Gowns.

their beauty of design and coloring,
make them bewildering. In addition
TO this there is the greatest variety of
trimmings and made garnitures, and
she who is endowed with the smallest
modicum of originality should be able
to evolve wonders with their help; in
fact, 1t does seem as though it would
be impossible to create anything quite
hopeless from such materials.
The best part of 1t is that the woman
who does not have to consider the price
OF things doesn't receive all the benefit.
The needs of the woman whose taste Is
refined though her income most modest
are wonderfully well understood nova
days, and even in this era of extrava-
gance it is quite possible TO be suitably
and becomingly clothed for little
money If one only understands how to
take advantage Of the opportunities Of
fered The summer girl of this year,
be she rich or poor, has no excuse for
not appearing more bewitching than
ever before.
For instance, for twelve and one
half cents may be bought the prettiest
white lawns with tiny roses in pink,
blue and yellow, scattered widely
apart. giving a clearance and lightness
of effect that is charming. These can
lie made up with numerous frills; there
are laces at five cents a yard to trim
them. Ribbons at nineteen cents per
yard can be used TO make belt, and
bows on the sleeves at elbows.
Nothing could be prettier for Sim
pie summer frock. Two dollars and
fifty cents will pay for everything
mentioned, and II can be easily made
by the home dressmaker
A hat of the material would be
charming with this frock Cut frame
in the new mushroom shape, which is
very like Japanese sun hat Make
the crown of fine cord shirrings, and
the brim of several frills of the ma
terial edged with lace; and a ribbon
bow Of the predominating color to give
il character.
Here is another hat economy: If you
have winter hat of becoming shape
which Is not out of fashion. but which
may be fit to wear a year hence, re-
make II by covering the frame with
straw braid. Hat braids can be bought
by the yard now in every imaginable
weave and color One inch or one inch
and a quarter is the width most used
at present. and you can get an ap-
proximate idea of the quantity required
by measuring the hat space.
Many women always renovate their
winter hats in this manner TO tide
them over the deadly spring season, as
by waiting until little later they are
able to make a more satisfactory selec-
ton at a much lower price.
History Repeated in Fashions.
On taking general survey of
fashion, we see how history repeats
itself, and what famous historical
epochs are represented in the fash
IONS of 1904. We are wearing
Medicis collars and Elizabethan
sleeves and embroideries, and Marie
Stuart colts, and we are adopting
every style peculiar to the days of
the Louis, in coloring. texture, and
design.
Pompadour muslins are the rage
Of the hour Chine, brocades, beauti-
fully colored heavy satins, quaint old
world pastel embroideries, the Mar
quise hat in Leghorn, with its wreaths
of pompadour roses, the quantity
coats. and broca6ed waist coats figure
beautiful Directoire and Louis XIV
largely among the seasons fashions.
Then We have the seventeenth and
eighteenth century brocades and taf
fetas, not TO speak of the Marie An.
toinette skirts and bands. the Joseph
me or Empire frock, with its bolero
effects and gorgeous trimmings. Oh.
serve in the fashions of today the
amount of gold galloon and quaint cid
taffeta trimming used, and how faith
fully the pelerine of the Josephine
period has been produced in velvet
and silk, though this is now giving
place TO the Early Victorian fichu eff
fects.
Charming is the revival of taffeta,
plain, spotted. striped. check. and
changeant in the old-fashioned browns
and grays of that period which fol-
lowed, in disappearing contrast, the
brilliant rose, du Barry and Louis XIV.
blue. Today we are without prejudice
where color is concerned Nothing is
too gorgeous for us, nothing is too
simple, and thus we see brilliant
shades side by side with subdued
Quaker tones.
II is not surprising that dress to-
day is beautiful. for the wonderful
colorings and lovely embroideries of
the far east are manipulated with
the ingenuity and lightness of touch
peculiar to the western nationsi chic
and smartness we have at home, and
superior intellects have culled fonder'
Gus designs from the old-world mas
tiers. The Italian school is also play
ing a part with its trimmings and en-
amels.