Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
Dread Girlish Headgear.


dread the girlish headgear. Now in Paris
a woman with marriageable daughters and
even with granddaughter. calmly takes
the simple shape with roseDuds and other
emblems of the opening bud. Also she lets
the youngsters select anything they want.
The round hat. garlanded with small roses,
with knots of pink ribbon and tulle will,
with artistic treatment of the face, make
the woman OF forty look under twenty. The
Princess of Wales. who is known to be
past her first youth and facing forty, ha-
bitually wears the most juvenile p.nks,
blues and whites, with all the girlish trim
mings Imaginable. The way to do it is
to ask the miliner for a hat for your six
teen-year-od daughter, have it boxed at
once and depart. The hat which the artist
designs for sweet sixteen is the thing not
one trimmed up grlshy for any age. The
European women have mastered this art,
and are far ahead of their American sis
tiers.
Some Chic Accessories.
The tailored waist with its jaunty little
man-fashioned pocket at the side is very
popular. The manufacturers have seen the
necessity of supplying something to put in
these same small pockets. and so there are
the most engaging little kerchefs which
come for this purpose. Some of them are
sheer linen and are designed for either
ornament or utility. Others are of silk
in gay colors and meant only to tuck in
the side pocket. Some of the prettlest of
the new fancy linen handkerchi show
rings of color a white dimty ground.
The rings are either the size of pin head
or as large half dollar and are Dor
dered by narrow hens of the same color
Very dainty, but not quite so new, are the
ones with colored crossbars and stripes
Some of the pretty imported handker-
chiefs are of plain sheer white, finished
with French rolled edge, instead of the
usual hemstitched hem. The edges are
rolled with cOOre6 thread and tho
expensive of these handkerchiefs have fiat
dots embroidered in the same shade
Imperative Mandates.
Simple tailor gowns and blouses
have long sleeves. Many dressy gowns,
too, have long sleeves, since these are the
latest If not the most popular mandates of
fashion. All simple street gowns, indeed.
must have long sleeves, and so must all
walking costumes for morning or sporting
wear and all the simpler forms of coats.
Besides the open japanese sleeves and
separate cuff sleeves and open armholes,
other features of spring gowns are the en-
pire backs to nearly all skirts, Independent
of the way in which their fronts may be
made. The empire girdle, too, should never
come below the waist line in front Short
WASTED effects the rule in all forms Of
dress and these growing, If anything,
shorter, making it difficult for any but ex-
pert modistes to achieve "A becoming gown
bly, be much modified to suit the American
woman's figure.
The Perennial Check.
For those who can wear plaids nothing
could be more suitable and becoming than
the black and white checks which come
this season in the very becoming little coat
effects. They are made with trimmed skirt
and tight-ftting jacket, flaring in front,
something like an oldfashioned blazer
coat and open in the throat to show be-
coming lace stock.
Another of these suits is a heliotrope
check This Is in taffeta, small in design
and made with a short, tight-titting Jacket
that closely outlines the hips. third suit
is a green plaid in three shades of green.
The style is a pony and the trimmings are
dark blue taffeta.
For the Matron.
One of the numerous between-season ru-