The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-06
FASHIONS AND PADS


 Everyone welcomes the net hat fo1 summer wear; hot days on sunny lawns would lose half their charm without it.
 Lace veils are edged on both sides with fancy borders and serve for scarfs as well as for enveloping the hat and face.
 Stoles and ecclesiastical designs have crept into the toilette quietly, but with evident intention to stay for awhile.
 Plaits set in the side or quite around the skirt below the knee suggest the returning fulness of this part of the costume
 The latest belts of heavy gold braid differ from their predecessors in that they are of dull rather than of bright gold.
 A bit of hand embroidery is a dainty finish to the tight-fitting shirtwast sleeve, which is cut pointed over the wrist.
 The guimne of f1esh-colored tulle. which has received so much com ment, has been superseded by a chem isette of finest black tulle.
 The gray now favored by fashion able women. is really a grayish rose colcr-having a subtle touch of the rose beneath the gray.
 A smart little collar and cuff set consists of sheer batiste and Irish lace edged with tiny hemstitched plaftings of the batiste.
 For summer resort wear great many girls prefer silk boomers to pet ticoats. They are quite as cool and far less cumbersome
 Wide lace is used again to encircle the armhoies of dress, often extend ing far enough into the dress to shape a lace bolero.
 A new correspondence paper has white or colored hemstitched borders like handkerchief hemS, and the pa per is cross-barred like linen.
 Although many skirts have side trimmings, the hips are given as flat Directoire craze.
 Hand-embroidered linen dresses, made with Dutch neck and trimmed with real Irish lace are among the newest and most expensive.
 Fashion authorities declare that this season the separate waist must match in some feature the dress of which it temporarily forms a part.
 A novelty in belts is a handsome tailored leather one with chatelains envelope bag of the same kind.
 The latest lingerie touch is to have cherry ribbon bows fasten up the dainty garments instead of the old fashioned baby blue and pale pink.
 Some of the newest tailor-mades are severe in style. but they lace the old masculine hardness which made the styles of a decade ago so memorable.
 The use of colored shoes has grown universal especially for house and evening wear, and there are new soft suedes, in grays, lawns, browns and wkite.
 The costumes is now considered in without a wrap of some sort, no matter how slight it may be, and this has caused a renewed vogue for the scarf.
 Spanish and Russian mantles are decidedly artistic, but they must be worn by a woman of height and slender build-one who can carry her gown gracefully.
 Wrist bands which are a revival of the early Victorian beaded bracelet have been introduced. and there is a threat of quite revival of these trifles
 Cut jet promises to be the most thing in stones this sea- son. It is found in brooches, watch chains, barrettes, hair combs and fancy hair ornaments.
 The drapsries of gowns are mainly at the back and sides and often start well up in the region of the waist, in lines which enhance the apparent length of the figure wearing hem.