The Jersey City news., 1906-03-07

The FORECAST OF
SUMMER WEAR
Beautiful Materials That
Will Be Worn By the Sum
mer Girls of 1906
lACES ON EVERYTHING
EVERY STYLE or COAT IS SEEN
IN SPRING MODELS - WASH
FRooKs THAT NEVER GO INTO
THE TUB.

Just why the young woman who de-
votes herself to athletic pursuits, to the
growth and development of muscle and
Drawn. TO the increase in height and the
general Amazon appearance which seems
to be the prevailing mode, should elothe
herself in garments which have the tex
ture and gossamer-like qualities Of cob
web. is not for the fashion editor to an
Aounce. Suffice it TO say that it IS so and
that at the present time the tendency
of the summer wardrobe is apparently
along the lines just indicated. Perhaps
1t is the natural balancing of accounts
that nature and art are always trying to
bring about for the perfection of the
whole. At any rate, there are few pret-
tier sights than that afforded by the
young person standing where the brook
and river meet with the flush of health
on her cheek and the light of that JOY
. in her heart which comes only from the
inner consciousness of perfect well being
and a gown made in the very latest style
And these latest styles. If one can
believe the outrunners of Parisienne ere
ations we are to display an expensive
simplicity and still more expensive COM
plexity never before attempted. They are
TO be made of the sheerest materials, so
sheer that one can see ones nelghbor
through them. when held to the light; so
sheer that the underlining. if it happens
to be a delicate rose, will look like the
flush of dawn in the morning sky. They
are to be snowy white, too, no matter
what the laundress bill or that of the
cleaner may be. for daintiness and the
lingerie gowns are inseparable and that
means oftentimes but a single wearing
and that again an increase of expense in
he weekly account.
And the laces. never before was there
so wide choice. for never before was
there so wide field devoted to this sin
gle item Every country in the world
has added its quota to the general whole.
Go into any big store and call lace
by the name of any country in the world,
and the obliging clerk will hand it to you
without a moments hesitation. Flem-
ish. Russian. Irish, Venetian. French
Spanish and so on. through the geograph-
zeal limits. And as with laces so with
smbroideries and all those trimmings
which are used with such largesse that
the original background is lost sight Of
and all this magni6cence for the dresses
nat my lady speaks of scornfully as
tub gowns" in distinction from those
used for more formal functions.
The materials permitted for these
frocks would take catalogue long as
the moral law, beginning with linen and
zigzagging through batiSte, lawn, dimity,
organdies. muslins, china and midas. and
with a price as variable, for it is quite
possible TO obtain a charming summer
dress for 10 cents a yard or for So. and
It may be shat befose the 10 cent dress
Is completed it may .Frn out to be. as
expensive as the more costly, for the
first price is but a small item in these
summer dreams
Skirts and coats seem to follow the
freedom of fashion which in warm wea-
ther more than any other time of the
year is permissible circular. umbrella,
the long and short are displayed in the
early models and coats are seen of the
tourist variety. the ever popular bolero