The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-05-11
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In thousands of family circles, the
country over, commencement day now
looms up Importantly. Next to a we'd
ding in the family there is no event
more intensely interesting to the wo-
men of the household at least. The
college girls commencement day now
involves the selection of a small trous-
seau, so numerous are the incidental
functions. Every high school has it's
social events in addition to the gradua-
ton exercises proper, and even the
grade schools graduate" highest class
pupils with more or less ceremony. In
fact the large number of girls who go
direct from the grade schools to bust
ness college make the grade school
commencement quite an event in pub
lie school circles.
And all these conditions mean more
work for the home dressmaker and
more loosening of the parental purse.
The high school graduate, like her
college sister, feels the need of at least
three new frocks, a pretty spring suit
for wear to church where the bacca-
laureate sermon is preached, a deli
cately tinted evening frock for the
class reception and whatever private
functions may be given during the
week, and, last but most important, the
graduation dress itself
In every class there are two or more
girls who insist upon wearing colored
frocks at the graduation exercises,
thereby annoying their more conven-
tional classmates and destroying the
alignment on the stage. And so, de.
spite pleading letters to the contrary,
a rule for all white in the graduation
dress must be laid down. Furthermore
the girl who imagines that white is not
becoming should wake up to the reali-
cation that this is an error. White is
becoming to every girl-if properly de-
veloped in a well-chosen fabric. The
girl who looks homely in stiff linen
will be fairly transformed by chiffon
and lace or even a soft, pliable net soft
ened by supple ribbons On the other
hand, the selection of a tint makes the
unattractive girl all the more conspi-
cuous.
Therefore let us start with white and
end with white so far as the gradua-
ton frock is concerned, leaving the
dainty pink, blue or lavender null fol
which the girlish heart yearns, to be
used in the gown worn at the reception
given the graduation class by the
juniors.
The white material to be chosen ther
becomes merely a question of the
amount to be spent. While chiffons
gauzes and silks are offered in gradua.
ton gowns, some of the daintiest mod
els come in wash fabrics, batiste, null
fine lawn, nainsook, all-over embrold-
cry in inexpensive patterns, crossbal
dimites, etc. Voiles are also among
the most popular fabrics this season
varying from a silk and wool to ar
all-silk yelling, while the better grades
of cotton voiles, which are double
width and cost from 81 yard up, will
also work into very effective models.
One of the prettiest materials FOL
these frocks is organdie trimmed witt
fine lace; but it must be classed with
silks and chiffOns, because it does no
show to advantage unless made on {
silk foundation.
The wolfe frocks, as a rule, show
jumper designs trimmed with many
little pleatings or frills of soft silk Of
ribbon over gulmpes Of lace, which may
vary in weight from the finest o
French Val to Irish crochet, though /;
good medium weight with wolfe is bah!
IRISH which can be bought in excellen
quality as low as "a a yard in all-over
with matching insertion, and galloon
as low as So cents yard. Guimpes TO
these wolfe frocks are also made from
net inset with heavy lace medallions
edged with frills of ribbon, net or Va
lace. In fact, Il is mostly on tn
guimpes and upper part of the jumper
that the elaboration occurs. Skirts, a
a rule, are rather full and plain, wit