The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-22

strips sold by the yard for collars are
by no means new, but this year some
of the dealers are making the strips
of heavier material, SO they are less
liable to crush, and the machine-made
designs upon this new material give
much more the appearance of hand
work.
Especially beautiful is a gold and
silver braid embroidered with an enor-
nous flower at frequent intervals in
the richest colors, the calyx being
formed of raised gold and silver
tissue. The flower is sometime out
lined in black silk. Passion flowers,
fieur-de-lis, peoples and daffodils are
most popular.
Princess lace, which is a rarely
beautiful net upon which the design
has been applied with the princess
braid, is one of the new offerings.
There is an imitation in which the
braid effect has been simulated by
machinery, and although it is by no
means the same thing when you are
close enough to touch it, the tout ell
semble is much like the real, and the
price is about one-twelfth as much.
Lace shawls are made into frocks
now, and are considered particularly
smart for dinner and reception wear.
They are really used exactly like the
materials of which the robes are made
yet whenever it is not absolutely es-
sential to cut in order to make them
fit these shawls are the more
expensive and desirable, and wo-
man who possesses one that will make
a train-if only short one-is de-
cidedly fortunate. These laces be-
sides being unusual, are particularly
attractive because of the graceful
folds in which they may be draped
about the body. They are becoming
alike to both stout and slender wo-
men.
The display of brocade and figured
and lowered taffeta ribbons every
where shows that ribbon and silk
trimmings are certainly returning to
favor, and it is hint as we'll that
Powered and colored silk girdles and
belts are to be in favor once more.
The southern fashions always deter
mine to a certain extent what will
and what will not be in vogue during
the spring and summer, so that judg-
ing from the present indication all
white or all one-colored gowns will
give way before those frightened by
some bit of contrasting color in the
hat or at the waist.
The majority of belts this year are
narrower than last summer, but widen
out slightly in back, sxld the sash
ends are added in such Il way as to
give the empire effect as nearly as
possible; that is, the rosette or bow
is put on at the top of the girdle and
fails loose from there. Long sash
ends always give an attractive
touch to the frocks, especially if the
color is carried out in the hat and par
aSol. Lingerie nets with large colored
ribbon bows are still popular, and a
Powered ribbon bow or rosette mus,
be added this year to the number of
separate bows that are provided for
the net, to be changed each day to
correspond with the ribbon worn on
the dress.
With shirt waist a stitched linen
belt may be worn with linen skirt,
but the embroidered linen colors call
for tie of some sort and a soft pink
or blue ribbon or silk bow at the
throat with the same shade belt, is
extremely pretty. Elaborate lingerie
bodices are as fashionable as ever, but
palmer style Of waist Is also per-
missable this year, and with the SIM
pier waists wide betting rather than
soft ribbon Is worn. Ribbon belts,