Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-26
COTTON GOODS
BEING SHOWN
So$fe Ct the After Christmas
Fashions That Are Being
Shown in the New York
Windows.
CHILDREN'S VEAL
One OF the FOuIardS Is Recommended
For Sunda! Afternoon Dre>s-MucI
FullDeSs in New Coats - Garnet
Neckties Being Worn

New York, Jan. 25.-After tn,
Christmas holidays are over a1.U
the Nsw Year with its lengthening
days is come, the shops b ,ia 20
open up the new cotton goods
Farseeine women TODAY nlan their
wardrobes far ahead q lime, and
though it may osund strange with
the winter only begun, as you may
say, yet this is the time to secure
the most exclusive and beautiful
designs for the spring or summer
dress. Indeed, it has become Gus
tomary for women to do this and
styles and fabrics are in no guess
ing stage thanks to what is called
the Southern trades-the design
and materials put on the market
for those fortunate ones who can
afford to go South during the winter
months and thus set the styles for
the early season
new cotton goods are pretty; but
more and more are the designers
and manufacturers paying heed to
cotton goods, for such is our climate
that they are four months out of the
year, more acceptable than any
other material.
First come the chambrays from the
heavier grades to those OF a mus
Unlike weight. Noticeable among
these are those having tape stripes
quarter of an inch wide; many
have solid color grounds with
white stripes; others have embroid
cred dots thrown over alternate
stripes of blue and black, blue and
white, Or green and white. Mer-
cerized stripes are shown in all
sorts III varieties, in which dots are
popula7, Ialso swiveled figures Of
Mgzag stripes; self-colored invis'-
BILE checks are shown over which
are run fine hair-line stripes in
black.
Especial attention has been given
to the "mercerized' fabrics, which
are almost as much sought for as
serviceable than some OF the new,
softer silks.
For the children's or women's
morning or business dress nothing
comes IN handler or is more useful
than the new ginghams. They
have a good body, launder WE'LL
and are to be found in all shades
from very light tone to- one that
is decidedly dark. Mention should
be made of the tartan plaids in
this material which are SO we'll
liked for children's dresses. and
many odd plaids and checks are
shown which will be made up into
suits and shirtwaists for women;
they will be plain in cut and finish
and completed with white collars
and ties and turnover cuffs. For
wear with freshened-up gown,
in the heavier weight they are par
ticularly appropriate aand bright
for the early spring.
The satin striped materials are
exceedingly popular for they allow
of many decorations from the FOODS
such as straps on the bias, or cross
wise panels or herring bone effects.
For evening wear, dancing
frocks, graduating dresses or even
the bridesmaid costumes, those
silky finished cotton are used. They
are shown in such Weaves as cotton
chiffora. n"1ls silk mms,ins. tis-
sue cloths, dotted Swiss. all of the
varieties of lawn, organizes, ba-
tistes and the new and beautiful
marquisettes.
An attractive material is the mer-
cariod fn",ard which hac great
measure of the charm and service
ability of the all-silk fabric of the
same name, and while the silk ia
brio may be beyond the purse, one
of these mercerized effects will
give excellent results. Cotton pom
gees, also mercerized, are fine for
travelling and afternoon gowns that
must see some hard wear; and they
are also very suitable for summer
outing coats, giving quite as good
style and perhaps more service than
the silken texture. Poplins of silk
and Gotten will be favorite mater