The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
Clever Variations of the Seasons Best Modes The Japanese Idea in Fall Fashions Fea- lures of This Years Lingerie Dress Novelties in Millinery The
 Lingerie Hat and the
 Short Back Sailor.

fiouncings Is very marked this season, and really Is deserving of more comment than we have space to give it at this writing.
 Frocks of white and delicate pink blue and yellow nets of plain, fine mesh are exceedingly dainty with trimmings of fine white laces, and mounted over self-col- ored slips of soft silk They are the newest form of the lingerie frock in Paris this year.
 While the smartest fashions are natural ally those to be seen at the select sum mer resorts in the mountains and along the Atlantic Coast where New Works fashionabes congregate to filter away the summer days and nights in an endless round of sports teas, bridge parties, din ners and hops, the shops on the other hand afford the stay -at-homes and yis- itors to the great metropolis opportunity for keeping abreast of everything new In the way of novelties.
 The backwnrdness of the summer has kept worsteds-serges and fine novelty suitings, bananas and veilngs-and the fashionable English mohairs In strong de- mand. The weather of the past month nus DeeH IbO unscuSOuuDle TOT uHyInlnR but suits of these materials for street wear, and as n consequence those smart linen and pique suits, simply and smartly tailored like the worsteds, or trimmed with braldings or appiques of handsome laces or embroiderles, will have an unusually short season, for we have tired of worsteds and are now wearing white or light colored linens and plques to the exclusion of those light summer serges heretofore so popular. Mohairs, however, continue in high favor-they are so attractive in this years soft silky weaves and smart patterns.
 Striking novelties In millinery make their appearance In exclusive shops along the avenue from day to day. Lingerie eff fleets are particularly attractive, so en- tirely different are they from what we have become accustomed to since one clever girl took to wearing her small sis ter's wash embroidery hat and all big sisters did likewise. Strange how fashions are born sometimes. isn't 1t?
 Hats with lingerie and lace crowns md leghorn, chip or neapolitan brms and trimmed with huge bows of lace or rib bon are classed as lingerie novelties, while the lace covered and ruched pana- mas are extreme, indeed.
 The cloche or bell grows larger with each succeeding week, or so 1t seems, for 1t Is no unusual thing to see one of these shapes of such size that when posed smartly on the elaborately coiffed head the edge of the back brim touches the shoulders. This. of course, represents the most extreme size of this particular shape worn in the most extreme fashion.
 The short front sailor has without warn ing turned Itself about and the huge ribbon bow of soft ribbon loops which once weighted the wide back brim is now smartly wired or corded and posed on the centre front of the crown, the wide loops almost covering the wide front brim. This new short back sailor Is as becoming as that of other days and 1t Is expected that this is the model which will open the Fall millinery season.