Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
FOR EASTER OUTFITS
Outdoor Raiment Leaves Wide
Field for Choice.
IMITLESS STYLES
SATIN FINISHED FABRICS ARE
IN DEMAND.
Faded colorings supplant Vivid Hues
Many Other
Hints.
Written for The Evening Star.

| Written for The Evening Star.
| In the midst of Lent the feminine worlt
| is in the clutches of dressmakers and
| Easter gowns. The tickle woman will find
| this trying season in modes for she will
have absolutely no excuse for throwing
| away last years gowns. Fashions in
| frocks have changed in small things only
| Winter gowns may be transformed into
spring frocks without any great expense
| and even last summers raiment can be re-
| juvenated in most satisfactory manner by
| competent home dressmakers
| Whether this state of affairs is due To
| the fact that women like the picturesque
styles of the past six months, or the fact
that the men and women who set the
fashions lack the originality or the cour-
| age to make any vital changes, one thing is
certain. this is a great season for the
economical woman and trying one for her
sister whose chief joy lies in trading off old
garments for new.
For the fashionng of outdoor garments
designs are extremely catholic. Anything
from three-Quarter bolero to a full
length redingote is permissible. Boleros are
extremely jaunty, much-trimmed and en-
inently suited to dressy occasions. They
show fiat collarless effects, masses of
boleroS follow basque lines. others are full
around the back and hips, while some
tailored models are close-ftting, double
breasted over the bust and sioping to a
sharp point below the waist line in the
center. Longer coats have rolling collars,
turnback cuffs and waistcoat effects, while
the redingote is the simplest but perhaps
in the long run, the most expensive outdoor
garment because it stands for perfection of
fit and line.
Three-quarter effects in sleeves are
noticea BILE on all of the dressy garments,
and the Louis and Directoire sleeve lines
are manifested in many ways. For the
more severe tailored coats is seen an eX-
tremely plain coat sleeve, but the bishop
sleeve gathered into narrow cuff has quite
disappeared.
In the length of her Easter frock the up
to-date girl may be equally catholic. The
French modiste insists that the dressy gown
must rest on the floor all the way around,
and many short trained effects are seen,
but the American woman likes the shorter
skirt and some gowns of rich fabric built
on dressy lines displayed with skirts
which clear the ground.
Boleros and Etons.
A very desirable little garment for the
Easter girl is the short, natty bolero or
eton, in fabric matching the skirt. These
also come in silk to harmonic perfectly
with the various cloths being sold for
spring wear. A very effective model is done
in a satin finish crepe of mulberry tint.
The skirt is laid in very fine
handwork tucks to fit snugly around
the hips, from which point it falls in
graceful folds to tie ground, giving the eff
feet of a skirt width of five or six yards at
the foot. The Jacket is a square bolero
which comes only to the top of a high
girdle of velvet matching in tone the ma
terial of the skirt and jacket The sleeves
come just below the bolero and flare broad
ly, being finished with Grecian pattern
done in velvet to match the girdIe, and the
revers are of the same material. With this
is worn blouse of white net showing tiny
coin discs, strapped with mulberry velvet
ribbon. The lace sleeves which show be-
low the bolero are in mousquetaire style.
The surplice waist is one of the fads Of
the hour and with this is used a sleeve cut
on lego mutton lines, but shirred or
crinkled from shoulder to wrist. Some
times these mousquetaire sleeves are split
in the back seam from a point just above
the elbow to just below it, and here is in
serted a flounce of lace or footing. Accor-
dion pleated chiffon, mousseline and the
finest of batiSte and lawns are used to add
a dainty finish to the sleeve and are in
valuable i'll making over blouSes.
For very dressy effects the draped bodice
is much used, and with a yoke and bertha
of a different material such as lace, net or
chiffon finely shirred and corded to form
the upper part of the waist, the lower part
gives the effect of an artistically designed
girdle.
though many women prefer the mousque-
taire effect from elbow to wrist. with a
finish of very narrow ruching or narrow
edging of real lace.
Robe and panel effects remain in favor
for skirts and both seven and nine gored
jupes are shown, all with the snug fit over
The hips and the circular voluminouS lines
around the foot. For wear with the skirts
of a full silk petticoat with a web top
is almost essential, though enormous sales
of lingerie skirts are reported. The latter
show fiounce upon founce below the knee
to assist in the art of making gowns fare
at the bottom.
Weaves Are Supple.
In the matter of fabrics, if such a thing
is possible, weaves more supple than
they were six months back. In silks, satin
finish is in demand and among the most
popular fabrics for dressy wear may be
mentioned liberty satin, satin charmense,
satin finished crepe and satin gauze or
gaze, as it is more generally called Even
the taffetas have taken on a more Satiny
sheen and are of all silks the most de-
pendable. Particularly effective are the
supple taffetaS showing two-tone stripes,
with third deeper tone in coin discs scat
tered regularly over the surface. These
come in the most practical of colorings,
which are admirably adapted for semi
tailored street frocks, for silk is most
popular fabric this season. Another very
pretty pattern for more dressy wear shows
small checked tafietas with single blossoms
scattered upon them to give the effect of
hand embroidery
Pongee under many other names is more
fascinating than ever, and the oriental silks
in rough or satin finish are distinctly i'll
vogue The sTnooth-finiSh pongee printed
with flowers, which are cross between the
oriental and the pastel shades, is called
printed rajah and the natural pongee
ground are shown all the popular tints of
the hour, including blue, green, lavender
and rose.
The tendency toward plaid is manifest in
the new finish of genuine Shantung which