Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-06-20
new YORK FASHION LETTER
The Summer Girls Outht--The shan
lung Frocks for This Season
Are Attractive.


| The Shantung froCks that are being
| made up for summer are very attractive.
! The garnitures that are most a la mode
| is dilet lace, the coarse genre that close
! ly resembles net worked over 1t is really
modification of old-word mosquito net
| ting with finer mesh. Used for yokes, for
| panels of sleeve or skirt the iillet is
| charming A dress does not need large
quantity to secure a good solid color The
| fabric seems to take all colors in dyes,
and is most seductive in Natter blue. in
| groseile or gooseberry. in cyclamen
pink and in serpent green. The new
| color roulle, appears to embrace all the
| others, for it might be almost anything
one choose to call il, bordering closely
| upon buff, cotton goods of it are about
as pretty as silk, or wooden.
! Quantities of rusty gold are put upon
summer gowns. whether in brads or (em-
hroidcry. The idea is a pretty ono. for,
| harmonizing with everything.it lights up
a color and paradoxical as it may sound
robs ii at the same time of any loudness
and spring gown often appears too fit
even when the warm days of Summer
have come. Some silver is in evidence
but for popularity It has no place with
| gold
Coututiers are putting so much gar
niture about the armholes of corsages
that it is almort absurd. Often the
round piece stands out a full quarter of
a yard under the sleeve. This is effect
| i've and agreeable for the slender woman
| BIT for the woman who longs to be rid
of forty pounds-more or less-it is poor
| consolidation for a as q matter of fact,
extra houffancy Increases the figure
even little of tito an alarming de-
gree. Most of the STYLES invented past
| and present, have been for the Lydia
Languish type and the beauty of plump
ness has no influence on the schemes Of
designer and draper.
Vests are quite feature Of the new
sumner gowns. Any amount Of work is
put upon them though we see those of
striped plaid shantung ornament ed
solely with smoked plain white pearl
! buttons. The most chic, probably are
those in embroidered pique. Often times
the vest is made with a cotton back and
| sleeveless and again, it is stitched in
| under Of corsage. TO ho removed when
cleaned. The scarlet and green vests are
both very elegant, and with morning
costumes we see very many of them
Coarse alapaca resembling granite
cloth will be much used for travelling.
This is self trimmed, is made with trot-
teuse skirt, the French call the new
walking skirt and is generally worn with
along. plain coast with pockets across
the bust. When buttons are employed,
it will be those concred with cloth but big
whit pearl buttons are so elegant and
so becoming SO sought for that more
than probably by midsummer they will
be largely used by all.
Every day now sees more new fashions
In the smart street costumes especially
those intended for afternoon wear. The
palmer tailored gowns for the morning
wear are all on the same order, moro or
less, but tie more elegant fashions, suit
able for the afternoon are to be seen in
great variety. The three-piece costume
skirt waist and coat to correspond are
this year considered the smartest The
coat is short and more or less fancifully
trimmed. Sometimes the gown is of one
material and the coat of another and al
present tho fancy silk coats are most
popular. To be original seems to he the aim
and end Of the designer They try vari-
, Gus methods to obtain effective results
0
, cd cloth Jackets find many enthusiasts
who exclaim over the beauty and origi.
| nality of design.
, Yelling gowns. with heavily braided
silk or cloth jackets are among the --latest
fashions, and here again there is oppor.
, tunty for color schemes with out end
A brown yelling made up over a much
! lighter shado Of brown has a cloth Jacket
| III
T. covered with an intricate pattern o.
: soutache braid, the belt, If there is a belt
. worn, is of a dark orange color, the only
tint of contrast among the different
browns OF necessity the braided Jacket.
, are expensive for the work is done by
1 hand but, again 1t Is possible to adopt
this same fashion. There can be les!
braid and wider used. and the patterr
chosen can be a simpler design.
Colored silk coats with hats to match,
, are again to be In fashion. Certainly the
style Is an effective one and at the same
, time is practical, for with a smart little
coat and hat a gown that In itself lacks
quality that renders It ineffective can be
: transformed into a most charming cos
tune. Last summer the fashion was at
:. tempted but so badly carried out that II
| met with little success. Now II Is being
, revived again, but with manish changes
and bids fair to be popular Again all
q the new shades Of brown can he utilized
and the brown hats for the moment are
:, supreme. But they are being closely fol
lowed by the new shades of blue which
:, are effective that it will not be long be-
fore every woman thinks It essential tc
, her happiness to wear blue hat with
long blue jacket. The gown itself in
that case should be of blue, but of q
lighter shade,
Another striking feature of the present
modes, both for tailor gowns and cos
tunes, will be the universal prevalence Of
stripes, chiefly. perhaps in black and
white and in gray and white, which
last in the newer convinatlon. We see