Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-07-19
Small Belongings of Dress.

1t costs quite little to live up to
ones clothes. Given gown, one
must rave a hat that goes with it, a
wrap mat goes with it, gloves that go
with it, footwear that goes vita 1t,
and SO on forever.
One girl evolved a whole outfit out
of some ostrich plumes. The plumes
HAD been providently saved from the
year before, and, having completed
their career of providence, prompt?
launched their owner into career oil
improvidence. She took them with
economical explanations to her mil
iine:, WAC evolved hat from them.
When the hat was dCLe Inc girl found
she had no dress that went vita the
Lat, - she got a now blue and black
silk frock, and from the frock she
went TO handsome coat. and at last
reports she was looking up boaS ana
other fine fixings to match.
IL Is to the fine fiXings that ones
fortune flies, even if ones outfit has
nolnIng TO do with feathers and silk.
The simplest linen snirt waist SUI
that ever came to town is one OF the
hardest things to live up to nowadays,
when there are shirt waist hats, snlrr
waist collars, shirt waist sioves, shirt
waist belts, shirt waist shoes, and
slirt waist stockings.
ST. collars are the latest ideas for
shirt waist suits, embroidered, hem
STITCHED, or scalloped, OF linen or
pique. Frilled collars and cuffs are
one of the seasons fancies, and most
charming they look worn with sim
pie muslin or lawn blouse. ON neck
not too stout or sho--. T1ey nave a
tendency to make the neck look short
er than it really is, and wider withal.
Ineir varieties are many and their
possibilities are endless.
Something new in girdles is the
nowerd ribbon girdle 10 wear with
white. A dark girdle, by the bye, Is
never TO be worn with your white
blouse, since it gives the waist cut
on look. Instead choose white
glrdle that matches the blouse. and
iengthens the waist line
China silk clips, cut low without
sleeves, are nice for the woman who
tislikes wearing blouses directly oven
corset covers or chinese. Tley ouL
ton down back. Suspender velvet
straps are a pretty addition to any
black skirt and silk blouse OF white.
OF course, any shade of skirt can be
worn SO long as you follow out the
color OF the skirt in the straps. Be
sure the blouse is a match or OF black
or white.
Shaded and changeable ribbons are
seen, but never on a Powered hat or
dress; they cannot match exactly and
they are too nearly alike to be diff
ierent.
Skirts plated to the knee are as
good as when they came out last
winter. Tan shoes, mostly adapta-
tons of pumps, just trifie more
pointed, are to be had in all shades.
French heels are TO be seen, but
Cuban heels are more in keeping with
the walking skirt. Sandals for children
are here In all shades, Waite ones
ueing particularly attractive. White
line half shoes are the mode. White
spats are a pretty affection for the
white sloes and proving popular.
However, everything is popular
now. Every fashion is the fashion,
but there is a place for every fashion
and every fashion is in its place.
One OF the most noticeable and COM
mendable points in present fashions
is the determination to be convenable
IN dress, tC put each tang in its
proper place, in fact, a fashion, how
ever pretty in itself, loses all beauty
if worn unappropriately. Gowns are
worn in the street that are only meant
for at homes and garden parties, hats
doned in street cars that were de.
signed for carriage wear, shoes worn
for walking that are only fit for dane
ing, petticoats displayed that in their
lace trimmings and their length are
more suited for an evening party than
a dirty street, jewels worn of morn
ing tnat should not nave left their
case till evening. In too many in
stances it is apparent that the dress
has been chosen without any thought
as to its being apropos or suited to
tle wearer's style, justifyiDg Balzac' S
dictum that women would rather be
lieve in the science of frocks tnan III
the personality and grace of those
who are so built as 10 wear them TO
advantage. They pin their fate TO the
gown making them land not they the
gown, and hence these tears. Still
we must hope on, though we trust not
forever, that a little REFLECTION will
change all this. for it seems tnou
sand pities that, with fashions as
pretty as they are now, both modes
and wedrers should not SHOW to tne
uttermost advantage and p"Hve them
selves mutual friends.
To get back to neckery and other
fashion fields, a high stock Of canary
colCred taffetas. worn with pretty
soft, fluffy, lacy waistcoat, was wouno
round the throat nigh under a little
oyerhanging, pretty, lacy collar, then
knotted and the ends tucked down
between the crossing folds of the
waistcoat, spreading out as they went
to show one lignt spray Of hand
painted flowers, light brown and gold
En- orchids on a long stem. Another
stock has ended of the same brocadec
with a velvet floral spray, and also
with the ends worked in broderie
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