East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-08-18
WHAT WOMEN OF FASHION
WEAR.
BY Maude Griffin.

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New York, Aug. 1s.-Late arrivals
from Paris are gradually introducing
women of fashion to frocks and hats
that figure among the modes of au-
tumn. The formal openings are quite
month or so off, but with each in
coming steamer from Europe there
land women gowned in models re-
plete with novelty and showing the
advanced touch of the Paris designer
in every line.
One cannot help wondering where
serges will end. Manufacturers, IL
certainly seemed last season, reached
the height Of perfection in their de-
velopment, but in their newest vari-
ETY. they are more beautiful than even
their staunchest admirers believed
they could be made. AS fall gets
nearer we are promised all kinds of
pongee serges, panne serges, satin
serges, foulard serges and serge in
combination with all of the silks and
satins that have swayed the world of
fashion during the past year. In their
colorings they follow as wide a range
but for the next three or four months
at least black and white combina-
tions will continue fashionable. White
and cream colored serges in combi-
nation with black satin silk or hand
some braids make a charming tailor
ed costume, and when the days be-
come too cool for their use as street
frocks these serge suits will be turn
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tional smartness required being sup
piled by dainty blouses of silk, satin,
mousseline and similar smart ma
terials
| A description of one of the new
French serge tailor mades will serve
to illustrate the smartness of black
and white combinations The skirt Is
gored slightly and fits the figure per-
fectly. 1t is trimmed with patches Of
heavy black satin stitched with lus-
trous satin braid about an eighth Of
an inch wide. These satin patches
are used for a shoulder yoke for the
coat which is just little below the
hips, and appear again upon the
sleeves as smart decorations. A simple
white pongee shirt waist completes
the outfit 1t is built upon one of the
well-liked tailor models and trimmed
only with bands of it's own material
and buttons Of white crochet silk.
One could describe white serge in
definitely and not exhaust the SUBJ
ject though each one boasts sufficient
novelty to give 1t a place among the
advance autumn modes. Another
French model Is composed of blouse
and skirt with narrow bordering
folds of red and black for trimming
and plated frills of white net. bor-
dered by several inches of red stitch
ing. falling from the short sleeves and
finishing the neck. These plaitings
OF net stitched in many lines of col
or. are very easily made and sur
prisingly effective. Similar effects are
obtained in fine white lawn stitched
with color. There are also little
guimps of tucked net stitched in coll
OF and of perfectly plain net with rows
of colored stitching around the coll
lar top.
Excellent black and white effects
are obtained in white serge coat and
skirt suits by the use of binding or
rather by bordering With such heavy,
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the sides of mems evening trousers.
The finish throughout is of the Sc
verest tailored sort, and the loose
short jacket with low cut fronts fast
ening with one or two buttons is the
cut preferred. = The long revers are
faced with black satin in most of the
models, but some tailored revers of
the serge merely bordered with the
black braid.
Collars and cuffs of toile de Jouy or
other printed cotton are used upon
some of the white serge coats and in
such a case a touch of black is usu-
ally added in binding, buttons or some
other detail Curious effects are OBJ
tanned, too, by a flat collar or neck
finish of rough silk such as rajah in
red, green or blue, embroidered in bar
barrie fashion with beads of many
colors, the barbaric note being, how
ever, circumscribed by French taste,
and the colorings, while audacious
being equisitely harmonious.
There is really no end to the sheer,
cool looking frocks for afternoon and
evening and in all of these one notes
the tendency to continue the use of
lace bands and eyelet insertions. A
majority of the skirts are short. even
when intended primarily for evening
wear.
This, as has been mentioned before
in this correspondence, is in conse-
quence of the fad for scant skirt bot
toms and the younger contingent takes
kindly to the innovation, older women
wisely changing to flowing lines. The
woman who is not slender should
shun the short, held in skirt, but un-
fortunately she does not do 1t and the
result is an abundance of caricature
wherever women assemble.
Many of the dantiest sheer frocks
have no trimming at all upon the
skirts, save groups of shirred cord
ings or tucking holding the fulness
In at the bottom. Weights are usu-
attached to these cordings to
81. upper spirit down snugly, for
90 i- relo~ . Distressing sight. The
bodice accompanying these skirts are
frequently as charmingly simple.
with great favor being shown fishu
and berthe effects.
Jaunty little hats with draped