The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-23
FADS AND FANCIES.

cheaper shops are beginning to dis
play comparatively inexpensive |
copies of many of the earlier and very |
high-priced models from the estab-
lishments of famous designers. Wo-
men who are compelled to economize |
in their expenditures for clothes, but |
who are skillful with the needle, are |
in a more fortunate position this sea-
son than in many years. as they can
find any number of handsome models |
easily copied by the amateur.
Elaborate embroideries and trim
mings are prohibitive so far as the
average woman is concerned and in
tricate draperies are beyond the skill
of the average dressmaker; but a
large prcentage of the prettiest
frocls this season are of studied
simplicity and obtain their effects by
methods not beyond the Possibilities
of seamstress clever enough to
follow good pattern.
There is the Russian blouse. for
example, which solves the coat and
skirt problem for many a woman
who would not dare attack the max
ing OF a tailored coat. Good patterns
for the blouse coat are numerous and
the making Is a simple matter, while
the smartest of the trimming details
are not complicated Then there are
such delightful results obtained by
the combining of two materials, the
contrasting stuffs furnishing the
trimming motif and but little other
ornamentation entering into scheme.
The yelling fad implies a certain
added expense, in that a silk lining
or other ttractlve foundation is nee
essary under the chiffon net, lace or
gauze, but here again there are col
oring efforts that may be comprised
even by the amateur The fancy for
yelling and for combining materials
makes possible the satisfactory reno
waiting of old frocks and last years
| AUS anu otuer Sins may De
made to masquerade successfully as
this seasons children through the
aid of chiffon or etamine 1t is not
Only these silks and woolens thar en-
ter into combinations. Linen COLI
sorts cheerfG;ly with handkerchief
linen or lightweight cottons; embroid-
cred swiss is made up with striped
zephyr cloth. rlain Bingham and fig
Lied Bingham 60 well together
There is a certain mOnotony in the
smartest afternoon models, due chief
ly to the enormous vogue OF the bod
ice or yoke cut in one with the sleeve
but this shoulder and sleeve line Ii
eminently adapted to the chic simpli
city which is the keynote of the mod
ish late season frock
There are several lustrous surface
cottons printed in foulard design:
which look very much like the silk
and some of them give admirable ser
vice, though they have not the Lowell.
softnesssof the silk foulard and are a
their best in the dark tones and il
Black and white striped stuffs
black and white checks, black ant
white dots, black and white designs
: of every imaginable kind are in higl
favor for morning wear, as well as TO
: afternoon and evening. Everywhe,
iare pretty frocks OF black and whit
chiffon, the white forming the ground
while an effective design is printed
sheer white frocks have a touch of re
lieving color and owe much of thei
charm to the effect thus produced
. Bordure chiffons in black and whit,
afford good opportunities for success
full models of this type and the manu-
facturers have supplied them in grea
number and variety.
White swiss with black dots is at
tractively yelled in black chiffon ant
trimmed in black chantilly or is mad
up without the yelling and with blacl
velvet ribbon entering the trimming
scheme. The French designers ar
" using quantities of ribbon for trim
ming purposes. in scarfs, girdles
quillings, big soft rosettes etc, ant
black velvet is very much in eyl
dence, though usually employed light
y ly to furnish the note of black with
out which no modish frock seems Z
be complete.
Sometimes black velvet is use
4 more boldly on a lingerie frock a.,
: incongruous as the union appears til
: results are often attractive. For eve
ming wear plain white and plai
black chiffon are combined in man
e ways usually with relieving dash O
color.
The scarf holding In the skirt be
low the knees is a characteristic fea
ture of the seasons modes and whe
b the combining idea is not eXaggerate
,. the effect is often a happy one Man
of the sheer summer frocks are mad
K up with a softly fulled or tucke
: skirts trimmed with two scan
hounces between which a scarf @
t satin encircles the skirt either unde
q the material or upon it, The full up
per skirt dropping over scarf be