The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-06-07
BLOUSfS
Are More Popular Than Ever
This Season
And All Garments Pretty And
Effective
The COIIarIeSS Effect Seems
To Prevail
Designers Of Millinery Are
Producing
Hats Of Great Interest And
Variety
(By Florence Fairbanks)

New York, June 4-Contrary to all
predictions blouses are more popular
than ever this season and scrutiny
of the displays in the big fashionable
shops will convince anyone that this
seasons blouses are exceptionally
pretty and effective One of the most
striking features is the employment
of frills for ornamentation Frills are
decidedly impractical, especially with
lingerie waists or blouses, but they
are pretty and give a dainty effect
that cannot be obtained by any other
style of ornamentation
The frill collar implies bare
throat, or at least that is the case
with the lingerie models, though in
the costume blouses of chiffon, crepe,
etc, frill neck finish is often ac-
companied by the shallowest of trans
parent guimpes with close high col
lar. In the lingerie model this idea
does not work out very well and
where a high collar is required the
/
The collarless blouse, like the col
larless frock, has things very much
it's own way in Paris, save for delight
full little sheer tucked and frilled and
long-sleeved models designated as
tailored" but although the chic Par
isian has taken up the collarless mod
els with enthusiasm there are always
women even in Paris who refuse slav-
ishly to adopt unbecoming modes, and
in New York there are plenty of fash
ionable women who will have none of
the collarless models.
When a collarless frock or blouse
is becoming, it is charming, but few
women past their teens wear it well
in connection with severe street
costume. In such cases the hard col
lar line should be softened by lin
gerie frill or embroidered lingerie col
lar falling over the tailored collar
and coming next to the throat. There
are numbers of such collars in all
grades of fineness and usually accom-
panied by cuffs to match.
\ The yelling idea has strongly in
fluenced the designers of costume
blouses and many of the prettiest
models in this class are of chiffon,
silk mousseline or etamine yelling
silk or satin, lace or contrasting chif.
fon. The idea is not altogether new,
but the treatment is, for the blouses
follow the frock lines, and the best
looking of the yelled models are eX-
cessivly simple in line and have most
of their elaboration, if elaboration
there is, applied to the foundation,
while the sheer yelling is of the most
pronounced simplicity.
Sometimes, where the collarless eff
feet is not desired, instead of intro
ducing guimpe the yelling chiffon or
mousseline is run on up to form a
perfectly plain yoke and collar, semi
transparent of course and perhaps re-
lieved by a line of white or cream
at the collar top. Often two veilings
of chiffon are used in order to obtain
a desired color effect.
The bordered chiffons are used for
some attractive little blouses of sim
pie line, surplice arrangement with
the modified kimono sleeve being a
design often chosen for such mater
ial Persian or cachemire silks yelled
in plain chiffon, cachemire chiffon
yelled in plain chiffon and cachemire
chiffon or mousseline in exquisite soft
tones without yelling are popular
blouse motifs and much is done with
these charming antique printed cot
tons or cretonnes yelled in plain chif-
fon or made up without yelling and
softened by net or lace collars and
frills and touches of black in cravats,
buttons, etc.
The newest models in very hand.
some handmade lingerie blouses are
, composed Of heavy soft handwoven
/ linen, beautifully embroidered in op.
. enwork designs and combined with the
t The cotton crepes are less used by the
r blouse makers than they were last
9 season, but some handsome models
q are made up In the fine cotton eta
: mines. White linen embroidered In
color is much liked, the touch of color
echoing some one of the tones in skirt