The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-02
FASHION FANCIES

The hard wear suit is TO be made OF
a robe or pattern material The bord-
cred gown. which has had such a vogue
in chiffon. batiste. net and the finer
cloths and novelties. has now been re
peated in the heaviest sort of cheviot
which women wear and in heavy nov
city cloths suitable only for tailored
costumes 10 be worn in the cold
weather.
These materials are of three sorts
the very heavy Scotch cheviot, the very
heavy serges and a smooth finished
cloth of considerable weight. although
1t is not quite so heavy as the two for
mer fabrics.
The patterns OF these materials are
much the same in character being all
plaids, blocks or large checks or
stripes of different widths. The colors
are very rich and in most OF the pat
terms shown dark and subdued, the de-
signs being almost on the invisible or
der in many of them because OF the
eolors employed. Nevertheless they
are not really invisible. for the con-
trasting colors in checks. plaids and
stripes are red and green blue and
red. blue and black. brown and red.
brown, green and red. This sounds
such that the colors are inextricably
mingled so that there are no sharp
contrasts.
But while the body OF the robe is
rich and subdued in tone. there is no
lack of contrast In the border. The
vivid threads so skilfully kept under
in the material are allowed to come to-
gether and form brilliant bands
both contrast and harmonic in the
border. A bright dark purple woven
under and black plaid so that it gives
IN the body of the material merely
rich suggestion of its tones comes to
the surface boldly in the border in half
a dozen inch wide bands Of purple
against a brown background.
Rich warm red also crops out bril-
liantly in the border of a dark brown
and green striped robe and the most
brilliant deep orange. which mlngles
! quite modestly with two shades Of
brown in what might be called an I'M
foreground check, flames wildly across
the border in an unashamed radiance
calculated to make the cautious trem-
BILE for the conservation of dress.
The changes in the sleeve modes have
set all the amateur dressmakers. as
well as many of the professionals, bust
! ly to work at remodeling. This is rath-
er thankless task as a rule, but this
| year fashion allows so wide a latitude
! in the matter of decoration that it no
| longer lacks compensations. Neverthe-
less the problem 70 fashioning a long
sleeve out of short one is sometimes
not a little difficult, particularly when
one desires to avoid the almost inevita-
BILE long cuff which has a rather I'M
/ fashionable look. Half sleeves of lace
or chiffon. fitting closely to the fore
arm, are a popular and practical SOU
ton. and not at all difficult of adjust
menr. Moreover, these half sleeves are
quite in line with the newest models
many OF which have closehtting lace
undersleeves issuing from the elbow
length sleeve of material.
Long sleeves, however. are by nc
means universal as yet. though most OF
the autumn outdoor garments. as vel
as the silken and wooden shirtwaists
display them. 1t is. perhaps, due to the
summer-like weather that they have
not made greater Roadway, for the ell
bow sleeve is too convenient and be
coming to be utterly given up 80 lone
as 1t is possible to go coatless. Or
every hand one hears feminine la
mentations anent the unkind fate tina
has declared it banished, together will
fervent avowals to the effect that moth
ing on earth shall be permitted to en-
force the decree. But, this, of course
is as it may be- Experience ha!
proven that what the fashion creators
approve that will the mere average
woman be compelled sooner or later t
accept. Almost any penance is NOR
endurable that that OF being dubbed
hopelessly old fashioned.