Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-05

| UNIFORM or made with q different
depth for each group, are effective
A deep fiouuce. with many One tucks
is usually becoming and lessen the
dimculty Of the cutting. since tne
iounce gives ample fuiness at the
bottom OF the skirt, and all is not
left to the cores.
| double or triple skirt, the shap.
| ed nounces set on bell-shaped sharp
ly haring foundation and eacn Dor.
dered by many fine tucks, is pretty
II well cut. and Is becoming to the
girl with fair length OF skirt line !,
but unless the overlapping founces
are well snaped or of superiatively
soft fine material. this model is prone
to look bunglesome An under petit
| coat very clinslng around the hips
and very haring and boufYant at the
| bottom, Is always needed to give this
double or triple skirt the correct sill
| houette.
With the tucked skirt. tucks In the
blouse are imperative. and the only
trimming is introduced In the yoke
or guimpe and berthat and in tne
sleeve.
Another type Of lingerie frock, elab
crate In effect yet less costly than
the intricately trimmed CONNECTIONS
OF the fashionable dressmaker, Is the
embroidery gown, made from robe
patterns of embroidery, or from by.
the-yard embroidery founcing. Some
OF the patterns. Including plain ma
terial houncing of two widths, In
sertion bands. and perhaps medal
Ions. are cxquisitely dainty, and Of
ten the skirt is already put together
and so nearly finished that any dress
maker can hang II and put It on the
band, These are not cheap. when
fine. but the embroidery is less cost
~ than hand work.
Valenciennes insertion by the mile
Is used upon the graduating frocks.
Inset In straight lines. vandykes. seal
lpos., scrolls, Greek key designs. bow
knots. etc. 1t is used. too. to Join
seams, to frame embroidered medal
lions, TO form whole guimpes and
long GUNS. Yalenciennes lace Is en-
ployed not merely as edging or fril.
ing. but also to be inset like the in.
sertion bands.
The princesse graduating frock Is
a very successful one OF French ba-
tiste finely shirred to a deep glrdie
form at the guimpe and collar of Val.
enciennes insertion and with valen,
cieunes edging Gulmpe and collar
are Of the Valenciennes and the full
skirt shows scrolls of inset Valen-
ciennes above the deep hounce snirr.
ed in many fine line in the points of
the scroll. Two narrow fiat founces.
lace edged and inset. trim thu bot
tom Of the deep .fiounce, and the
whole arrangement OF skirt trimming
Ffs most effective without being ex-
cessively complicated.
The .fine dotted and embroidered
'swisses make delightful graduating
frocks. as we'll as the batistes, mulls.
and fine lawns, and there are new
swisses this season. powdered close
ly with tiny dots and showing at In.
tervals a small embroidered design
as well. that are finding favor with
dressmakers.
Outside Of the lingerie province,
the plain and figured nets. chiffon.
silk mousseline, silk gauze. Grape and
all the very sheer silks are suitable
for the graduating frock Fine wolfe
with no trimmings save nuns plaits
on the skirts and with some good
lace In guimpe and sleeves is not only
very serviceable and inexpensive
frock, but very glrlish and pretty
one as well,
Chiffon and mousseline de sole are
perishable and quite as costly as the
lingerie frock, which is more fash
ionable this season; but the sheer
are durable things All white is, OF
course the ideal thing for he gradu-
ate. but little model frock shown
by n popular house has been copied
for a pretty graduate in one OF the
boarding schools up the Hudson.
It Is OF one OF the sheer silky
stuffs too thin for silk. too heavy for
ganze--a white silk of the radium or
claire de lune weight and luster-
and IL made over a white silk flower
ed in blurred pink roses. Only the
merest hint Of color or design shows
through the white, and in some
lignts not even that tint is seen. but
there is a fascination in the shift
ing, hseting suggestion Of shadowy