Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29
A TOUCH OF WHITE.
All the Latest Chic Costumes Show
It Now.


What do you consider the most notice
able feature of the fashions in PARISH
asked an aspiring young matron of a
wealthy schoolmate who had just returned
from her semi-annual trip abroad in search
OF new scenes and new clothes.
1T may seem very unimportant to you,"
answered the perfectly gowned debutante
but the thing which impressed me most
was the French Womans use of dainty
white accessories. She never puts on a
jacket or a waist that she does not tack on
a bit of organdie or lawn or tuile which
gives it the most fetching look of immac
ulate freshness
zone of my friends described It as aus
tere. and 1t certainly does impress one
with sense of starched cleanliness, though
for my part, these touches of dainty white
ness pretty and becoming that they
always make me think of the unapproach-
able pink and white baby who has just
come from his bath and been decked out
in spotless, wrinklelesS white clothes until
the little fellow looks too fine even to kiss.
But we have used the white collars and
cuffs and turnovers now for several years
1t seems about time for something new to
turn up.
I'VE have never used them as the Parish
enne does, and from all appearances she
has taken more of a fancy to them than
ever this spring. We haven't the same feel
Ing about them that she has, either No
matter how out of date or shabby her dress
she will change the look of 1t entirely by a
frilling Of ruching or pique edging, and
what Is more, she will never allow this to
be other than perfectly Numbered and alb
solutely without blemish.
Her particular fad Is the of white
organdie, which she buys by the yard-you
know, the kind which is firm and stiff like
tarlatan. This she runs by hand with the
| finest little pin tucks and shapes it into a
deep hemmed band for her neck and still
wider bands for her sleeves. When finished
they give the same irreproachable effect OF
the widows cuffs and collar, and no sooner
do they become the least bit mussed than
they are thrown away and q perfectly new
set put on in their place.
For the quillings and rolling collars to
cover coat lapels. this deft-fngered lady
buys stiffly dressed lawn. This she edges
with the narrowest Valenciennes lace, and
in widths varying from two to four inches
has long strips of 1t knife leated at the
nearest tailor supply shop for three or four
cents yard. This Is, of course. to make
the qui1lings, and it gives her always plenty
on hand to haste quickly about the bolero
and sleeves of her street coat. The lawn
or linen collars for the coat are shaped
exactly like the lapels. and then finished
with the same quilting, either plain or lace
edged.
'-The primness of the Frenchwoman's
neck dressing impressed me. especially on
this trip. This spring she has taken to
wearing white muslin ties fastened at the
front in a precise. saucy bow. Many of
these ties are half a yard wide with long
ends that show design of French knots
and a scalloped or hemstitched border.
Others again are very narrow. with en-
broidered sprays In the finest satin stitch,
and when tied their short ends look like
little butterflies wings perching at the
base of the throat.
Last, but not least, the bunch of purest
white tuile retains its favored place In
Partisan fancys I've noticed, too. that the
woman who has a perfectly fresh pleating
of 1t adjoining her collar Is the woman who
seems always to be perfectly attired and
receives the most favorable comments from
passers-by for her trim and splendidly
groomed appearance"