Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-04-15

There is no doubt that hats will be
much in evidence this spring, but the
exaggerated modes will not long be
tolerated. They are too trying How
ever inappropriate a large hat may
be to the average short woman, it's
becomingness to her face offsets its
defect. Conversely, however becoming
the small hat may be to the short
woman, it is most trying to the many
faces who need shadows to conceal
defects. Then, too, while a faultless
couture should appear beneath the
large hat, it is absolutely essential to
the least degree of smartness with
the small hat. The only person who
can stand flying locks and rumpled
tresses is she with curly hair and the
very young girl. Somehow, young
girls have nothing like the unkempt
appearance of their elders when their
hair is tousled.
The lingerie blouse is to rule SUI
preme with all the coats and skirts,
and many are the devices in neck
ties and collars. The most attractive
of these undoubtedly are expensive,
and hail from Paris, but no doubt in
the very near future we shall find
them copied in all our most accessible
establishments.
A little tucked collar-band fitting
tightly, and shaped to very slight
degree higher at the back than the
front, looks we'll with an infinitesimal
frill at the top, the band itself being
outlined twice by a narrow black
glace ribbon tied at the base in front
into a small bow. Other pretty era
watts are also made of black glace and
tasselled with gold.
The finest of linen lawns makes the
blouse, either hand-embroidered or
with hemstitched tucks decorating it,
while most of the center pleats show
little groups of pearl buttons.
The feature of the blouse sketched
IN our large illustration is the form
of the braces and pointed cape falling
over the shoulders and arms, which
are fashioned in f1let lace, hemmed
with fold of satin which should
match the color of the skirt with
which the blouse is to be worn. In
front the braces continue below the
waist, passing beneath the belt, and
finishing in mitred points; at the back
the cape finishes at the waist Of
course, the braces could end at the
waist in front also, but the lines con-
tlnued on to the skirt give greater
length to the figure, and are more be-
coming than when the belt cuts the
two portions of the dress in half. The
underneath blouse which is quite SEN
arate from the cape and braces and
can be worn apart, is of lace inser-
lions and tucked net. Tiny revers of
lace meet at the bust, and below these
the lace and tucks are carried down
wards instead of horizontally. The
sleeves are formed Of puffs on the
upper arm to the elbow, and arc tight
fitting from thence to the wrist, the
lace insertions alternating with the
bands of tucked net.
In the costume shown to the left is
illustrated what use can be made of
remnant of figured voile, ninon de
sole, or any other light, semi-trans-
parent material, printed with a design
of wreaths of roses, which can be i'm
mensely enriched by introducing a
large pearl at intervals among the
rose wreaths. Diamond dewdrops
could also be scattered over the ma
terial with excellent effect and very
little trouble. The design is of one
of the long over-robes or coats. which
are so much the rage now for wearing
over an evening dress or tea-gown.