The Lake County times., 1906-08-18
THE ETERNAL FEMININE.

Saratoga y. Y. Aug 16-My
Dear Martha:-S Saratoga may be in
the clutch of a cold white symphony
as FAR as frocks are concerned. but
the intense heat is responsible for
the run on the white lingerie gown
which for awhile was laid aside at
the coast resorts where continuous
rain forced the conviction that the
gods would never dry their tears. It
has been so hot that women with
semblance of crimps, and men with
stin collars We're uneanny or disa-
greeably conspicuous. Though Sara
toga has taken On a high moral air
since the abolition of gambling. rae
ing has lost none OF its popularity.
The club house is filled with the
smartest people and the toilettes are
dainty and summery. Each woman
seemed twin 10 the next, the day
attended, for all were in white. But
large leghorns with flowers in pro-
fusion and large hats with plumes,
gave tone and color TO an otherwise
monoJnous picture Nearly all the
gowns are linen and lace or null and
lace and embroidery. but on close in
spection there seems no limit to the
ingenuity and audaeity of the dress
makers in so far as the handling OF
these materials are concerned. While
you and must construct our summer
frccks with an eye to the laundering,
the makers Of these dresses surely DO
not feel in the slightest way bound
to consider linen and lawn as tub
fabrics. Just fancy, my dear, some
of these linens are combined with the
rarest lace and some are even en-
broidered with silk and dull silver
threads What would our grand
mothers have said? very delicate
frOck was in rose colored silk linen
embroidered with seft gray silk trim
med with the narrow fringe spoke
to YOU about last week There was
gray hat trimmed with gray
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and scored a success, but despite all
one hears of the prominence of deli
cate colors being worn by fashion
Iagles at home and abroad, it is won
derful how white holds it's prestige
in the fashion scheme, and white
toilettes from hat to shoes are in ex-
cess at all open air functions. Linen
coats are worn with frocks of various
materials, but the linen preferred is
of the fine batiste kind. Over frock
Of sheerest white linen and muslin
with a skirt of all-over tucked null
and val inserts, was worn a coat OF
canary linen cut Louis XIV. with re
veres and buttons of black taffeta
Many fancy coats are of the all-ovel
English eyelet embroidery which i:
very effective for this purpose. With
a white lingerie gown of puffed mul
bands which alternate with valen
CHIMES inserting, was worn a coat o
blue silk linen embroidered in hug,
punches of hydrangeas, in the natu
raj lavendarblue hydrangea shade
These flowers were entwined will
tulle on a large leghorn hat; stock
inge and suede shoes matched tn
color. While midsummer fashion
are in full swing at present and ther
is still a vast demand for linens, cal
you realize that autumn modes viii
soon be the prevailing topics? Tn
E presage of an early autumn seem
harly plausible here at Saratog
which though ideal is melting unde
+ streams of fierce sunshine. The ozon
r / have promised myself l should sure
~ revel in at each new change thi
summer, l felt positive of catching
. here, but it still fits before me lik
a will-o'-the-wisp. However, l Sc
e the goldenrod lining up along tn
4 roadsides with the welcome messag
: that balmy days are just a littl
; while ahead Always,
6 JANE.