Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-07-20
OUR WEEKLY
FASHION LETTER
Some Interesting Points on Midsum.
mer Dresses and Gowns for
Women.
(By Maude Grim. J


season of the year all of the leading
dressmakers of the world gather in
Paris to view the modes that will
startle fair women at the autumn
openings. though what they will see
will be kept secret inviolable until
the release date has been set for the
new modes.
Incidentally those who keep closely
enough In touch with the world of
dress to venture predictions send
forth flood Of prophecies, and 1t Is
quite possible to select from some of
the modes predicted things that will
be becoming and sufficiently novel to
lend variety to the modes that be.
When a decided change is impend-
ing in the world of dress, attention is
usually directed first toward skirts.
This year is no exception to the rule
The air is full of divers rumors re-
garding the fate of the fashionable
skirt. This particular garment has
bewen SO whimsical and capricious Of
late that one cannot help wondering
what will be done to it next.
AS for long time past, there are
efforts on the part of some of the
leading dressmakers toward fulness
at side and back and of course greater
simplitude at bottom, but so far this
movement has affected only robes de
style and has not had any particular
Influence upon the trailing skirt and
the majority of dressy frocks. 1t
seems probable that the scant skirt
will hold over until the fall but not
In its exaggerated form and 1t Is ev-
en to be hoped that the bride or
nartingale. as the bands. etc.. con-
nnlng the skirt bottoms are called,
win fade from the horizon.
Very deep folds promise to play an
Important part in the new offerings of
skirts. The leading French contour
heres have introduced a few designs
at resorts such as Trouville-Danville,
where 1t is the custom to feel fash
ions pulse and essay little expert
ments before venturing greatly in the
launching of new modes, and these
show folds knee deep, taking the
place, perhaps of the knee-founce,
They are of different material from
the skirt proper. as If 1t were the In
tention of the designers to reverse
the order of things and give the place
appointed the separate tunic to this
new fold decoration.
A delightfully."- simple figured silk.
with a background of blue sprinkled
with figures of bun, outlined with
delicate green has the skirt trimmed
with an unusually deep fold of plain
blue satin MORE and finished at the
head with a very narrow piping of
fancy buff and green striped silk.
The simple blouse bodice is trim
med with little loops of the same
silk. secured at either end with but
tons of the same and the round neck
is completed with an ACCORDION plait-
ed ruffle of bun silk linen.
The skirt is a compromise between
the tightly, closely bound affair and
the gagged skirt of graceful proper
tons, so that both prons and cons
might show a reconciled front to the
new mode. Certainly no one should
object to the elimination of the ex-
ceedingly tight skirt, for 1t has
proved unbecoming to a thousand
women where 1t was becoming to
pne, interfering as 1t has with free
pom OF grace of movement.
modification of the once popular
oell skirt, smooth, clinging, but rip
ping into moderate width at the bot
tom has been exploited slightly in
Paris during the last month and may
md acceptance in the fall. With N
Change in the width of skirt bottom
viii come of course. return of the
train which has been practically an
mpossibility with the tied skirt.
Draped skirts will continue fash
lonable. 1t is asserted on the best
authority, especially upon house
dresses. for the yelled effect is still
As popular in Paris and London as
When It was first introduced. Wom-
en- OF fashion use it in a thousand and
one different ways for making new
irocks, while women who are forced
10 accommodate the needs of the
wardrobe to the purse, employ the
idea for renovating gowns which
must do duty through two or three
seasons, ringing in all kinds of novel
Ideas upon even the cleyerest notions
Of the French designers.