Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-11

coat and skirt models show coats on these
lines combined with the long plain skirt
clinging at top and widening unanimously
at bottom.
Coat and skirt are perhaps of the same
material, or a coat of chiffon faile satin
duchesse, taffeta or cloth may be combined
with a skirt of sheer stun in the same or
harmonizing color. In the latter case there
is probably a bodice or blouse OF the skirt
material, but If coat and skirt are OF one
material a blouse Of net or lace dyed to
match the coat and relieved by cream or
white is a probable accompaniment
The filet laces of the handsome grades
are highly popular for such blouses, and
indeed one cannot discuss spring modes
long without coming across this question
OF filet.
There are, Of course, countless inexpen-
sive laces with flet mesh and many Of
these are very pretty and effective, but
there are, too. superb hlet bands and fiounc-
/ irgs and motifs and allovers which are the
most effective things in the line Of lace
trimmings seen in many a day.
| The dyers and the embrolderers have
| done wonders with these laCes and one
must see the results I'm order to appreciate
them One heavy hlet mesh Of deep ecru
formed in designs OF great beauty is
]
quisitely harmonized Or perhaps the net
and design are all in shades OF ruddy cop
per- like brown, shading from light to dark,
or in the china blues, or in smoke gray shot
through with threads Of warm apricot,
One set Of flet laces was in delicate gray
with a design entirely in dull silver, and
always there are beautiful one-tone whites
and string color and ecru embroidered
partly in silk of high lustre, partly In dull,
Iustreless silk. often flet lace is dyed to
match a frock and then embroidered over
in white or contrasting color, or simply
the heavy net is dyed and a design is
formed in openwork in contrasting color.
Among short dressy costume coats the
variety is endless Every possible change
seems 10 have been rung upon the kimono
sleeve and vague loose little coats with
huge armholes and draped shoulders are
made up in every material from hatiste
to silk Square, loose Elton and bolero
| effects cut to give long shoulder lines but
made with regulation sleeves are popular,
and tiny wraps half cape half bolero are
| legion.
! A good model Of the square bolero class
was in raspberry cloth trimmed in pattes
/ Of white cloth braided in black. These
pattes formed a neck finish, and trimmed
] the coat fronts and skirt IN a manner
which will be best understood from study
/ Of the sketch made from the model A
/ little waistcoat was Of white, braided In
lines of raspberry and black soutache.
Velvet and velvet ribbon appear upor
many of the dressy street frocks, as in tho
case Of the brown cape bolero mode
sketched here, and one Twenty-third stree
house Is showing a very effective mode
in coral pink tussor whose loose little Goa
and skirt are heavily trimmed In straigh
bands OF black velvet in graduated widths
A touch Of velvet is likely to occur upoT
even the hlmiest OF French frocks and
new idea is the introduction Of chhoI
broadcIoth into the trimming OF lingeri
frocks. Several lovely cloth trimmed lin
geric models have been shown by exclusiv
shops. and though this union Of clou
trimming with sheerost batiste, embr0id
cry and lace sounds homogeneous, the offec
in each case was emphatically charming
/, and called forth complimentary comment
from every modIsh woman TO whom III
models were shown upon opening days.