The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-24
WOMEN'S SPRING ATTIRE

mer Fashions for the Fair Sex-A
Glance Through This Fashion
story VIII Give Our Feminine
Friends Many Pleasant Things TO
Think About.
New York, March 1.-THE style of
skirts which will be worn during the
spring and probably the early sum-
mer months differs but little from the
prevailing style, which has been in
vogue for some time. The leading
skirt is plated and usually has a real
or simulated tunis, and the popular
variations of the undraped skirt in
clude those with plain front and side
cores attached to a widely side-plait-
ed back, with all round side or box
plaits mounted on a knee-deep tablier
and with side plat clusters between
narrow gored fronts and backs.
Only with the very long poloraise
is the plainly gored or very scant
circular skirt to be generally worn,
while the straight cut type, gathered
into the belt at sides and back, is
chiefly employed for peasant frocks
of wash material, fine English mo-
hair or a very sheer silken fabric.
Although it has many competitors
for favor, the linen dress will be eN-
tensively worn throughout the sum
mer and early autumn. Nothing
quite equals it for utility and, al
though the material is easily rumpled,
it may readily be pressed and it will
withstand a great amount of hard
wear. During this month and next
many two and three piece suits OF
heavy linen will be made up by fash
ionable tailors, as invariably there is
a tremendous demand for them the
moment that the first warm wave
sweeps over the town.
One manufacturer OF linen suits,
noted for his conservatism, is making
up a model which is certain to appeal
to the woman who prefers to do her
shopping during the morning hours
and to the business woman whose
duties keep her away from home dur
ing the greater part of the day This
suit has the generally becoming
thirtysiX-inch mannish box coat and
the widely side-plaited skirt fitting
smoothly over the hips and escaping
the ground by about three inches and
is extremely modish when developed
leaf green.
Another practical type of the tail
ored wash suit is seen in the crash
weaves which show dark blue, brown
or green mixed, with white or pale
gray and made up into smart-looking
skirts having rather narrow front
and side cores attached by buttons to
a widely plated back. The coat of
the semi-fitted order has sectional
sides accumulated by piped seams
and gains something of the fashion
able Russian air by virtue of broad
belt which takes up the fullness at
the back and front and wide sleeves
gather into deep cuffs.
Many of the coats to be worn dur
ing the coming season suggest the
lines of the figure without actually
defining it, have a low-rolling collar,
below, which are three large buttons
of pearl or braiding, and sometimes,
in lieu of button holes, loops of the
material are placed directly at the
edge of the left front. In few in
stances the fastenings consist of
loop-equipped frogs of fancy white
braid and cord olives. None of these
coats have abruptly slanting fronts.
In fact, so slightly are they cut away
that mere glimpses of the blouse and
girdle are visible, and at the back
they are but slightly longer than AT
the sides.
To accompany the tailored suits
of washable material the smartest
of the countless new models in shirt
waists is the one developed in heavy
white linen, with front, collar and
cuffs piped with color matching
the suits fabric. Next in favor are
the waists of striped madras in white
and color hand-embroidered in the
shade of the stripe, and third ON the
list are the waists having a color
scalloped edge coming against the
front and side fastening. Designed
especially for quite young girls is a
tailored blouse which fastens from
below the chin to the left shoulder in
slanting direction and then runs
diagonally to the belt
Lingerie waists in demi-talored
style are to be worn extensively with
all manner of tailored wash fabrics,
especially during midsummer, when
dimity, fancy lawns, barred muslin
and dotted Suisse will be a welcome
relief from butcher and heavy lin
ems. In the attractive semi-transpar-
ent fabrics one modeI, which is maxi
ing most successful bid for favor,
has the side frill of muslin embroid-
cry, Cluny lace or net, which lends
so chic an air to a rather severely
tailored suit. Another very dainty
lingerie waist of this class has a
double frill finishing its side closing