The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-04-08
Domgs in the
World of Fashion

Browsing among model frock bar
gains Is rather more hazardous than
usual unless one will De content with.
wearing the purchase only during the
rest of this season, for many OF the
models offered are Of the directoire
type and the directoire fad shows signs
OF passing: but here and there are
models more conservative, and with q
little freshening many of them would
be as good as new. Some women have
no imagination In this matter or fresh
ening and refurbishing, and 1T Is the
mussy and shopworn model who really
gets the admirable bargains.
Now is the time, too, when short
lengths of materials may be picked up
for a song, crowded from the shelves
by incoming goods; and since q major
ity of these materials are OF weights
that make them possible for spring n
summer wear as well as for winter, h
economical woman will fnd much for
future use among these piles OF crepe
and satin and messaline n broadcloth
and other fabrics.
But It is difficult to pin ones atten-
ton to winter bargains or to remember
that at least two months OF cool wealth
err still stretch out ahead OF us. when
spring materials are blossoming on the
counters and spring models are on view
I'm the shops. 1.
Models Mere Guesses.
OF course, as we have said before, the
models are but tentative, bold guesses
at things to come, made for the benefit
of those who spend h late winter n
spring in Southern lands; but these
guesses are interesting and some or
them are cl0yerly made: Winter MODES
have been translated into spring ma
terials, with notifications demanded by
those materials; and II the result is
not startlingly original 1t Is at least
eminently attractive.
AS usual linens are well represented
In the early showing, and n finds chic
linen models both in the princess or n
piece frock and in coat and skirt ar
rangements. The latter SUCCESS In line
the street costumes of the winter, out
not those OF the most extreme types;
and though the linen Is Of the sort very
free from stiffening, this material is not
supple to lend itself readily to the limp
clinging effects.
Linen the Thing.
The coat and skirt suits of linen have
nothing original about the lines, yet
they have considerable cachet. Among
an early showing of these gowns, one
in q soft light brown and Of p%articul-
arly soft texture had an oddly con-
structed skirt which was more attrac-
tive in fact than in the telling, yet was
merely a pretty successful EFFORT to
solve the problem OF the tight skirt and
the summer materials. The upper part
of this linen skirt was fitted snugly,
but at the knees, in front, the lower
part of the skirt Joined the upper in
two very wide fiat box plaits. This
provided fullness and movement around
the feet, but the close upper skirt
sloped down at each side to the hem so
that the back was all in n with this
gored upper section and the plated
fullness appeared only across the front
and a little way around the sides. The
coat OF the costume, cut after a famil-
lar model, fastened with large buttons
covered with ecru linen and heavily
embroidered in brown, and similar but
tons were used on the back of the
straight loose coat.
The straight, loosely fitted lines pre-
vail in all of these new suits, and In
many cases pearl buttons are lavishly
used for trimming purposes, as satin
covered buttons have been during the
winter. A coat of mixed gray and
white linen had rows of closely set.
small white buttons on pockets, fronts
and skirt openings, together with an eff
fective use of narrow stitched bands of
the linen which lent an air OF original
ity to a coal otherwise most conserva-
tive. The skirt Of this costume was
a plain gored one.