The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

comment of an out of town relative
OF the bridegroom, craning her neck
FOR a better view,
AND she was right.
don't set up for a prophet, but
all the same, low neck gowns at after
noon entertainments, whether in ones
own drawing room or elsewhere, and
noon or later in the day, will not be
at all the exception in New York next
WINTER, asserted one of the smartest
women of New York the other day,
on the eve of sailing for Europe. 81
don't mean by that that the cut of
corsage one associates with an opera
box and formal dinners will be seen
at teas and musicals, but only that a
medium low, round, a square or v
SNAPPED will be perfectly proper. in
fact the correct thing to wear with
a hat.
And the mean reason for the newer
fashion is this: Americans spend
more and more time in Europe every
who have the entry into the best Eng
fish society have often attended court
functions connected with royalty, such
as the queens drawing rooms, royal
weddings, ETC., at most of which, no
matter what the time of day, full
dress-and by that I mean strictly
evening dress-is positively required.
In this way these women have be-
come more or less accustomed to low
cut bodiceS of a morning or afternoon.
Now, here, for instance" picking up a
New York paper, lis an account of the
wedding of an English duchess in
London.
"Only few American women were
present, 1 see, but those few, like the
members of the English nobility and
of the royal family in the audience
wore court dress, which means a
decollete bodice and feathers in the
hair.
Now that, of course, is going fur
Their than most Americans would care
to go. l myself would hate to appear
often in the garish light of day with
plumes in my hair and a corsage as
low as decency will permit. But royalty
will have nothing else at a state func-
ton, nor would Queen Victoria hold a
drawing room except in the daytime.
Queen Alexandria is more reason
able and more inclined to cater to
American preferences, therefore some
persons close to the throne are in
clined to think that before long draw
| ing rooms at which many Americans
are to be presented will all take place
lions it is not unusual in England to
| see corsages of medium low cut in
| drawing rooms anywhere and every
where worn with a hat, and at many
of the most notable New York after
noon brushes of last winter there were
dozens of gowns cut out quite a bit in
the neck.
LAS for my summer wardrobe, I
don't believe 1 have half a dozen
dresses cut high in the neck-finished
with stock collar effect, I mean-and
even those half dozen have very soft
| transparent lace collar. In my Opin-
ion unless woman's throat is posi-
| lively scrawny she ought never cover
it UP anyway if she would look her
best, and I know of no surer way to
make neck scrawny than to wear
| high stiff collars"
This is the reason of the five cent
gown. All the shops are having their
midsummer sales OF summer materials
and there are so many pretty things on
| the five cent counters that no Self-re-
specting girl should be without a five
cent gown, made by her own hands, in
order to be able to say when she comes
out in it, all fresh and sweet and
summary looking and some Mere Man
This thing? Why this is my five cent
gown. The whole thing only cost sew
enty-five cents" That's the sort of talk
that every girl thinks is calculated to
make a hit with a man.
/ Fall down and worship at the shrine
of Ste. Mousseline, for she is the adored
of fashion at the moment, and you may
find her simplified and glorified under q
dozen and one different aspects whose
ture. For, in truth, the hard book mus
lin of our childhood's day would seem
to be entirely out of favor, though heI
spotted sister, somewhat reminiscent OF
toilet tables and window curtains, is
yet regarded with considerable affection
the spot for the most part being in
finitesimal, while the trimming of such
a dress would be insertions OF
IValenciennes or Irish lace.
Plain white muslin, when soft, bears
a close resemblance to white cotton
wolfe. and lends itself amiably to many
tuckings, insertions of lace and hand
embroidery of the satin stitch or Ma
deira order. One of the most extrava-
CANT of white muslin dresses is en-
broidered all over in the fashion known
as broderie Anglaise. Done by hand, it
is extremely expensive, and looks en-
tirely lovely made in the simplest fash
ion of blouse-b bodice and gathered skirt
with a. transparent yoke of Irish OF
Valenciennes lace, the sleeves, which
terminate at the elbow, being trimmed
with fri1ls to match this yoke, while
the whole is crowned with hat of tus-
can bearing punches of red cherries tied
with pale blue bow and accompanied by
a pale blue parasol.
Parasols are having tremendous
season. There are dozens of new
Ideas in them this year, the linen ones
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