The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-02
TIE PREVAILING FASHIONS Attractive Suggestions For Washable Frocks This
 Summer.
NEW IDEAS IN BLOUSES
Accessories That Give the Finishing Touch of
 Smartness.


 if we choose, stray away from the compromising tailored linen, and make ourselves comfortable and att tractive in fifteen-cent muslins or twelve-cent percales. Positively, it takes years from us in spite of addi- tional laundry bills to be thus freshly arrayed each day, for it is a long time since these inexpensive materials were stamped so conspicuously with the zeal of fashions approval.
 For morning wear there is nothing prettier or more generally satisfactory ! than percale. It has all of the wear ing and laundering qualities of linen, and is much less expensive. The de- | by 1t, however for comparatively few really new patterns are to be had, but still the hackneyed effects, the hair stripe and the pin dot, the tiny heur- de-lys in color crossed by the shadowy line of black are transformed into original conceptions by the fact that all of these designs are in high favor in the more costly materials Linen and madras come in all manner of printed effects and there are ginghams galore, although for some inexplicable reason the American woman doesnt t seme to take kindly to gingham, either Scotch or American Among the more dressy fabrics are lawns in an infinity of designs; mulls, French batiste, and an occasional dimity The cotton voiles are always charming, and this season many exceptionally effective designs have been brought out, but cotton
 voile crushes easily, and, being of rather unyielding texture, does not lend itself to the present mode quite as 1 gracefully as some of the other ma
 terials
 But the list of inexpensive summer
 materials this year does not stop with
 cottons and linens, for there are plen.
 ty of dainty silks, soft taffetas, foul-
 ards Indias and Chinas, not to men.
 tion the other Oriental weaves that
 may be had on the counters for forty. five cents and at the frequent sales al thirty-five. Stripes are especially
 pretty in these thin silks, and some o1
 the most exclusive importations in. clude them. Recently a consignment
 of smart August creations arrived
 from Geneva house and contained not only several of these striped slll
 models, but many in percale and null, | which show that stripes are not by any means on the wane. One of tht
 frocks was of very thin what WI fused to call summer silk in two tone.
 of gray with a silvery cast over it all
 The skirt was laid ill tiny plaits ovei I the hips which gave it smooth ef
 feet, with the desired fullness below
 Around the bottom or two inches iron
 the hem, was deep fold of the silk
 cut on the bias and finished at tn
 lower edge only with piping, first 0
 black, then of blue. The plnafor was scalloped around the pointed necl and buttonholes, and then the scallop
 were laid over a double fold of tn blue and black, like that on the skirt The fitness from the shoulders wa brought down in slant line to tn center front and back of the wals line, giving it almost the effect of , surplice. The shoulders, instead Q coming into a seam, were strapped to 3 gether with narrow bias bands, fiv l of them, made of the gray silk, wit
 the blue, and black pipings at elthe
 side, and these fastened each of ther
 to the bodice with a small jet buckle An odd feature about this dress wa
 the fact that the guimpe was (
 batiste, simple allover pattern, wit , three lace ruff1es in lieu of cuffs.
 In this same consignment of Angus attractions was simple lawn and . still more simple percale, each, how ' ever, shining example of what artis s tic ability and clever fingers may aC complish with such unassuming ma
 terial The lawn was white, with tW Il Izigzag lines, one of pink and the otht II of blue, following each other, an crossed at regular intervals with
 . double hair line of black, the stripe q being less than half an inch apart. TT u skirt, oddly enough, was gored cil
 cular, with an exaggerated flare immt
 diately it left the hips. From the cer . ter front just below the waist lin there began scroll design in Valer ciennes insertion which, sweeping dow " and around the top of the hem, faint ;. suggested front panel or tunic. " The bodice was cut out in the nee " in round effect, with a yoke of the fl est of French batiste crossed off
 squares by narrow insertion, and ( = the bodice this yoke was outlined wit
 insertion of the same design, but 6
 inch wide, piped with blue batist
 which gave a bit of tailored appea T. ance that contrasted rather strange le yet modishly, with the rest. IT n sleeves even to accentuate this col
 trast, were high, with undersleev le reaching just below the elbow, fasI l. toned of frills of Valencienes, and u n waist itself was ornamented with tl of same scroll design in miniature tn le was given to the skirt.
 The percale frock was walkil le length, of course, with the skirt cut n the new flare gore style, each gore b d ling lapped over the other on the und re Side III QdTl IdSnion around the III h and falling free from there. The pc ID cale was of pale blue, with a sm; E. white figure in 1t, There was a for l) inch fold set on over the hem, al t. another three inches above. Betwe l. the two folds was design done " white linen. and above the same i'd 1t was carried out, except that it curv C. lup and branched out over the front ly panel effect The waist was in one t. the pinafore modes, the new sleevele
 model, with the front and back CT es broidered, and the guimpe of Fren h. La tir+n ,,-ns Ia ane .tr,ir1n al