The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-06
COTTON FROCKS
 ELABORATE
Voiles, Ginghams, Linens and Canvas Vie With Silks in Summer
 Wardrobes.

The French habit of making cottons with all the elaboration of more eX- penslve silks and wools is with us this year as 1t has not been before, Here tofore the linen and cotton tailor mades and the lingerie gowns rich with needlework have been the lm- portant factors of summer wardrobcs But with the use of old world prints and the rage for qualnt-hgured fab- rics cotton has come to its apothoo- sis.
 ono sees hGbnobbing with silk and thin wool frocks In the ready-to-wcar departments of the stores the love- Hest little cotton frocks, most of them in princess style, which at once brands them as prey for the laun- dress
 A few years ago a similar amount of work would have called for larger figures.
 The cotton yoles and the silk and cotton mixtures of many weaves are responsible for some of the lovellest little frocks Fine gnghams in jump CT princess models are smart for daughter or mother unless the latter has reached the estate of large ay0r- dupois and actual age. Actual age" means nothing now, however, for un- less a woman Is go old as to have lost all interest in fashions, she k capable of keeping on picture hats and girlish gowns. A prominent English woman ' y,sEtA ,F v,rh t,sty., hu4 been q recent guest in Now York, and who Is a grandmother, has worn q picture hat every time she has lectur- ed. And she Is not fashionable woman, either. She simply demands the thing that she knows Is becoming to her. regardless of age.
 | Some of the cottons without a thread of silk In their makeup, thanks 1 to the art of mercerization, have satin stripes that add much to their charm The borrowing from museums of pieces of exclusive antique de- signs have done more than anything else for the vogue of linen. Stunning | things have become an every day oc- | currence among such materials. The printed borders run the gamut of classical and unclassical designs, the Greek key pattern continuing In high l favor. Striped materials with coin spotted borders are among the preva- l lent showings. and among the choice ones are polka dotted or. striped hatis- | tes or lawns with Vatican lowered edges. Cashmere and cretonne de- signs are used as borders on some of the newest pieces A pale blue cotton net gown seen recently was trimmed with the borders of the goods n cash- mere patterns of the old palm leaf kind in soft Nattier tones touched with yellow and green. The skirt was | trimmed with round and round bands | of the border and the front breadth was outlined with them. The waist had 1chu drapery with very long ends which caught at the waistline with a buckle made of blue and green striped silk. The fchu was edged with the border trimming and the low neck and round belt were edged with silk like the buckle.
 A tailor suit and an afternoon gown, both of cotton, are shown in one shop. The suit is of pin-dotted white cotton canvas with black satin
 high glrdle showing through the
 opening of the front and black satin collar. The other gown is of checked cotton and silk voile trimmed with a
 quaint embroidered batiste done In
 colors. The gown is princess, as are most such gowns of the day. The
 deep yoke is of embroidered net.
 Fewer actual summer gowns have
 been seen than would have been the
 case if the season had been an earlier
 one. There has been so much cold
 weather that dark tailor-mades have
 held their own long after they should
 naturally have found their legitimate
 place in mothproof wrappngs.