The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-24
THE FASHIONS.
WASHABLE MATERIALS NEVER
 MORE POPULAR,

Frocks for Country Wear-Negliges fOl
 War mDnys-What Children ar,
 Wearing-New Ribbons and New
 Uses for Them--NoveIties in tn,
 shops.
 Carelessness in dress promotes care lessness in manners, and without that unnecessary impetus our summer man. ners are sufficiently lax, we must all agree, and, after all, it is matter of habit whether one dresses for dinner just as for eating and sleeping, and be- cuse one happens to be boarding at a farm house or village boarding house instead of high-priced hotel is no ex- cuse for breaking all the rules under which one has been brought up, and especially those of good dressing.
 Indeed, there is one good reason why country guests should always be spick and span and that is that 1t is com paratively easy to get ample laundry service at reasonable rates and this year as never before washable mate- rials are popular for frocks. For cool
 and stormy days the strong skirt of heavy material topped with a shirt waist vii do but mainly simple dresses or madras, percale, linen and crash are all that one sees, and certainly it is a relief from the inevitable and shirt unusually pretty patterns white grounds, chiefly with black or colored figures scattered over them, polka dots and Grescents having first choice. These are invarably made up without trim ming, unless it be a bit of embroidery at the cuffs and neck or pipings of the figure color, but the smartest ones are absolutely plain. One with alternate blue and red dots had a seven-gored skirt, each gore piped with blue and a blouse with two pipings on either side of a cluster of nip tucks. There was a narrow V-shaped piece of embroidery at the neck with stock of the same which added a pretty touch while the short sleeves were finished with bias bands of the percale, piped on either edge with the blue. With this suit was worn not blue but red belt not more than an inch and a half wide, a place kid, with an oblong blcl1le kid-covered. Another percale which went far toward giving a certain auburn-haired girl a distinctly smart appearance was about as simple as anything in the way of a gown could be. It was cut, the skirt after a five-gored pattern, in circular effect-it is useless to try to cut any of these wash materials after the regulation circular, for they are bound to sag or pull, and lose their shape entirely upon the first wash. The front was very narrow, with four in- turned plaits in the centre, stitched to the knees, and there were plaits at the back for the necessary fitness, but otherwise the skirt was deviod of ela- boration. The waist was even more se- were, showing only few gathers under a stitched band at the shoulders, from which the fitness was evenly distri- buted at the waist line. The neck was finished with little pointed collar of hamburg all-over. These pointed col lars, or the very narrow v's are favorite modes of trimming for the popular plain waists, as few women look well in an absolutely plain frock. Another touch is given them in the three short bands of lace insertion or embroidery, the centre one longer or shorter than the two shoulder ones, and still another in slot seams, which open just enough to show line of color. Tn the latter case the design is usually carried out in the skirt, which adds rather than de- tracts from the tailored appearance of the costume.
 In the class of easily laundered mate- rials ginghams figure conspicuously; that is, French makes, and there are very attractive patterns this year. es- pecially among the black and whites. The Scotch plaids are returned, and that old standby, the blue and white
 
 pretty made up with masses of tucks and white seam binding, of which an ingenious dressmaker will make any number of clever combinations. One young woman who has plenty of leis- ure and penchant for making her own clothes turned out some exceed ingly original designs, among which one of the most admired at the farm, community where she is spending the summer is nothing more nor less than one of these blue and white ginghams, not an ordinary dark blue, but light fast color. which distinguishes it as this seasons product. The skirt has five gores with three tiny plaits, nine inches long, laid between each, giving it snug fit over the hips, with plenty of fitness below, the bottom being fin- ished with a four-inch hem. The blouse shows a mass of fine tucks from shoul- der to shoulder, running to point in front and also carried out in the same effect in the sleeves, which are short Over these tucks, in both skirt and waist, Is a double scroll pattern form ed by a line of white seam binding set in flat, This was done by first tracing the design on wrong and right side, then laying the seam binding smoothly on the wrong, turning the curves with tiny gathers, cutting through the edges neatly back with stitching on the either side. With this costume this young woman wears a shaped belt of the gingham, with the same scheme of de-