Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-08
NEW YORK FASHION LETTER.

| NEW Y0RK-The silk craze pre-
di led tOr this year has been even
more strenuous than the prophets
foretold. Everything is made of SILK
| from the most stunning evening gown
| to the strictly tailored travelling suit.
| SIX goes to mill and TO meeting or,
| in modern phraseology. to market
and to the opera It Is no longer the
| fabric OF the rich In the old day,
when the purchase of new silk was
an event by which to set the family
calendar and before which neighbor-
| hood and national happenings were
mere episodes, the bride with re-
strictions as 10 purse expenditures
thought herself enyiable If her trous-
seau comprised one handsome silk
frock.
Compare with that moderate outfit
the wardrobe of the coming sum-
mer's bride, who, ten to one. was a
teacher OF business girl. One silk
gown would be mere drop in the
bucket. SILK, she asserts, is the
economical material one can buy and
offers long arguments TO support her
statement. Muslins and linens re-
qulre cleaning and laundering,
gauzes crush beyond repair and the
thin woods in vogue demand no end
OF silk foundations. Nothing Is so
natty and trig for summer walking
or travelling as the silk suit, and it
CHI 1ne Urit
material does. Then there is the
long limo of nnneAe weavas 40 well
suited to summer costumes And
coats. And there is no end OF an as
sortment of thin silks, washable as
cotton, for blouses and dainty even
ing frocks.
Year by year the useful foulard is
relegated TO limbo by false prophets
and as regularly the foulard manu-
facturer is ont with patterns so up
10 date in colors and designs that no
woman wants TO resist them. For
useful afternoon frock, or even
morning shirtwaist dress there is no
rival to foulard. The pieces on the
counters now are particularly entic-
but the very weaves themselves be-
| ing sacrificed to popular fancy. One
finds foulards now with changeable
| effects, satiny surfaces, broche faces
and canvas weave and designs every
whit as artistic as those seen in ma
| ierials of greater favortism. For
| cool little summer frocks one can
| buy, II sales are watched ont for, ex-
| cellent foulards marked down to Az
cents and sometimes even 80 cents a
yard. Double width is one OF the
| new features at the foulard as well
| as other silk sections.
! An economical woman can take ner
last seasons parasol-in plain col
ors-and embroider a cluster OF flow
ers upon one side and thus make
something new, smart and very ex'
uusite. Parasols embroidered around
the border with open eyelet or Eng
fish embroidery are exceedingly
smart and as they are quite expen'
sive a hint may be given as TO how
this manner OF decoration can be
done at home at trihing expense
Get a small piece Of silk the color OF
the parasol, or something that com
bines with It well and shape medal
lions with scalloped edges, enough tt
| out four on the border of the para
sol. Work the medalllons out OF th'
piece of silk. Applique them dowr
upon the parasol firmly and event!
and then cut away the parasol ma
terial from under the medallions
There should be enough edge to maxi
a wide enough understanding to pre-
vent the silk from drawing loos
from the medallions. Still anothe
way is TO work a border of silk an
attach 1t to the edges OF the paraso
The newest things in belts are tn
| strips of japanese brocade. which III
shops secure from Japanese import
ers and sell in belt lengths or in pair
for revers and cuffs These are don
in rich colors on waite silks and ar
in more or less soiled condition
but as every stain attests to the grea
age and, therefore. to the value
the embroidery, no reasonable pu
chaser would object TO getting Ii
lie dirt with her belt. One OF thes
embroidered in rich shades Of blu
and gold is simply stunning over
blue skirt
p Polka-dot belts are another move
is ty. Tney are deep girdles OF whit
Is Kid cut out In holes the size OF din
a. to SHOW the bright-colored satin II
n ing.
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