Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-07-28

TOR variety of shapes and mate
rails, for profusion of flowers
and ribbons and feathers, for
luxuriance and simplicity com
bined, do not remember a summer hat
season comparable to this. Adyices
from Paris indicate that the early fall
will see marked change in style, but
this summer we have had period of
undecided style, if we may use such
an expression, If woman preferred
q big hat she might have one; II she
preferred small one, she was equally
in style. To be sure, the big hats,
the so-calied "peaeh-baskets," were
more numerous on the streets of New
York during tb- early summer, but
women who sought distinction in garb
very early abant .oned these extreme and
unbecoming creations.
II is, as you realize, always advisable
to abstain from extremes in every de-
tail of dress ng. particularly If your
purse does not allow of your having
q great variety of clothing. OF no
feature of our costume is this more
advisable II an in the item of hats. If
you must content yourself with two
hats, endea gor to have them in the pre-
yailing n'Jde, but not so noticeable that
your ..Iends will recognize you by your
headgear. Refined and successful dress
ing is not the garbing spoken Of in the
cheap shops as stylish"
Latest hats
am showing you in this page a
number of hats exhibited by fashionable
New York and Paris milliners. They
are all straws and range from the
simple Panama, adorned with flowing
ribbon, through modified flower hat,
up 10 the most expensive Paris crea-
tion--the bottom photograph of the
group "A large black straw with masses
of ostrich feathers and plumes.
As necessary an article of dressing,
however, is the Shirt-waist, once the util-
ity garb Of the woman who worked in
an Office, but now the favorite garment
for suitable occasions for the rich as
well as for the self-supporting Every
woman should have number of these
garments in her wardrobe, and for the
woman who likes to occupy herself with
occasional sewing, am giving some
useful suggestions for the making OF
the newest shiTt-waiSts.
The LATEST shsrt-wsist
1t would seem that the designers
must sometimes reach the end OF
invention and be unable to devise
any further variation of tuck and
plat, whereby to diversity the tailored
shirt-waist. The more decorative gar
ment-the lingerie waist, so-called-by
reason OF insettings of lace and ernbroid-
cry, offers fewer obstacles to originality,
but the tailored waist. demanding sinh
plicity and severity of line, can command
no such assistance
There is one feature available, how
ever. in the varied effects afforded by the
dieS.eHt methods Of closing. The sim
plest Is the plain box-plait, buttoning
through the center with moderately
large pearl buttons The edges are
stitched and mary of this seasons mod
els show a narrow, plated frill at each
edge, trough the new detachable frills
are freqrcatiy made with buttonholes
in the centfa! band, through which they
may be attached to the same pearl but-
tons that close the waist.
a BoH-Plzi. Chasing
The method of forming the box-plar
at the shiTt-wsist closing differs from
the making Of an ordinary box-plait
1t is necessary to dispose of the raw
edge Turned under at the front and to
make neat inside finish, combining the
two operations in as labor saving a
method as possible. This is one of the
cases where time ano-labor, saving plan
is couiuendable; there are, unfortunate
ly, Some others that are less desirable.
An adequate and neat finish on the
inner, concealed side, as well as on the
outer, is what constitutes good crafts
manship, no matter to what branch OF
the Arts it may be applied. There is
certainly no more womanly art than that
of the needle, and, though unnecessary
business should be avoided, slip-s hod
methods of saving trouble are always
depiorable