Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26

bulL OI ner summer LrOuSSeau Tor
surely by now all the spring costumes
are ready and but waiting for March
winds to die down before each new
gown can be sported. Summer Co.'S
tunes must now be the consideration
of the women, and to these all atten-
tion must be given In advance sum-
mer fashions marvellous bargains are
to be found, while the model gowns
which we're made to tempt those who
sought the delights of a southern
winter and which by chance found
no purchaser can no longer be resisted
now that the cost is less than half the
original sum demanded.
Among the model gowns one must
look first, and the chances are that
the search will be rewarded, but if
no perfect fit can be found among
gowns that can be altered satisfac-
torily or if perchance no costume seen
comes quite within the limit of the
sum intended to be expended, then one
must commence to look about in the
different shops among the fascinating
displays of light and dainty lawns,
mousselines, net and batistes in their
numberless plain and figured varieties.
When at this season thin fabrics are
first seen one believes that never be-
fore can materials have been so at
tractive, designs so effective nor
gowns so charmingly pretty, as at the
moment in question. All this is un-
doubtedly the idea of ones mind, sim
ply because these fabrics bring with
them the thought of summer after the
long cold of winter, and almost in
stinctively one purchases hastily in or
der to be ready for the warm weather
when it really shall appear.
Afternoon Gowns for Summer
It cannot truthfully be said that af-
ternoon gowns for the summer of 1900
are to be any more elaborate than those
of the preceding year, for the zenith
reached then in the amount of eX-
pensive lace, handwork, founces and
furbelows necessary in the construction
of any frock intended for the most in
formal of garden fetes. All costumes
are still appallingly elaborate-from the
modiste's standpoint because of the
necessary amount of hand labor, and
from the purchasers because OF the
monstrous bills-but, while fashions
have changed markedly in the last
twelve months, every attention is still
given that the lines of smart cos
tune are becoming and that the model
chosen is peculiarly we'll suited to the
wearer both in coloring and design.
Girdles, when worn at all, are broader
than those of last year, and long sasf
ends are attractive with light gowns
Trains have grown shorter and skirts
fuller 1t is in the sleeve, however
that the most noticeable change has
taken place. The puff-easily twice as
large as last summer's-has moved from
the elbow to the shoulder, and although
long dropping lines may still be de-
tected In some of the latest models
the average sleeve is composed of one
two, three or more puffs with the wild
est one nearest the shoulder. Most
wash dresses have but the one puff,
20 that they may be more easily laun-
dered, although the three puff sleeve
alone, or deep elbow length cuff, is
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much in vogue. should only be worn
when peculiarly becoming, and a long
lace cuff is, If anything, pretty finish
to a dress. Deep lace ruffies falling
gracefully from the elbows tend to take
away the stiffness from the sleeve of
the present hour, for the long flowing
sleeves are still missed and the break
must not be too sudden. The low cut
collar is a fad of the last two sum-
mers that has increased astonishingly
In popularity and on warm day when
one can boast OF a prettily rounded
throat this is an extremely attractive
fashion.
Sheer Fairies for Warm Days
There are certain fabrics which are
in vogue year after year, and which,
let II be hoped, will never be ostracized.
Among these are silk mousselines, plain,
striped and fowered, all so fresh and
so pretty. Then there are sheer or
candies and lawns, these also, garden
like, with their clusters OF roses, lilacs,
violets and ferns Embroidered batiste
is still as great favorite as ever,
while the Powered net is again to be
as popular as before A material which
has not been worn for some time is
Dnce more coming to the fore; this is
batiste, which is a mass Of open en-
oroidery not hand work necessarily.