Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-05-06
FASHION NOTES.

summer styles. The shops show fine dis
| plays of the most handsome suits for
| earl Y summer wear. There can be no
j doubt any longer that the short coat
VIII dominate during the coming season.
| The coats of the tailored suits imported
from France are much shorter than
those of American models. Indeed, some
| of the latest French importatiOnS have a
bobbed-off effect below the waist that is
anything but graceful. All women, short
| and tall, stout or slender, looked well in
the three-quarter semi-ftted coats of the
past few seasons, but the new short coat
| is dangerous for the stout woman, and
she should be wary of allowing her tailor
to clip too many inches off the bolt M of
her Jacket IN the pursuit of modiShneSs.
| Authorities on fashion say :ha, in the
case of the simple, mannish type of tail
ored coats, the bottom of the garment
shall come exactly to the tips of the flu
gers when the arms are allowed to hang
straight down at the sides. More lati-
| tude is allowed in the various modifica-
tons of the Russian blouse coats. Of
cou Sc, the feature of the Russian suit
| is the patent leather belt. The coat may
or may not have collar, but belt it
must have The belted coat certainly
lends youthful look to the woman who
is sufficiently slender and youthful to
wear one, but it makes stout woman
look a perfect caricature.
Some very dainty costumes of that
type, in black and white shepherd
in the shops. AS rule they show snappy
little touches of solid black in the way of
braid trimmings, buttons and inlays of
black satin, never forgetting the newt
able black patent leather belt. Some
times, also, there lis an effective touch of
| colOr-a vivid bit of flame satin or man
darine orange velvet set into the collar;
but this touch of vivid color is cleverly
subdued and made more plquant by the
little black bow which tops a frilly cas-
cade or jabot of lace.
1t is reported from Paris that little
vests. buttoned under attractive street
suits are growing more popular every
day. The presence of the vests is due
to the fact that many of the new coats
have long, rolling collars and button at
the waist line. Many of the fashionable
shops here are showing dainty vestees of
striped silk for wear with the coats
which button low with two or three but
tons. These little vestees are really only
a strip of material with pointed ends,
which go about the neck and fall over
the chest in the manner OF the silk pro-
tectors worn by men with evening coats.
A vestee in striped lavender and white
silk, the stripes meeting in a chevrOn
effect at the center, had buttons of pearl,
the small button holes being worked with
lavender silk.
Every year, as regularly as the winter
SHOWS begin to disappear, the rumOr is
waited about the land that lingerie
blouses are to be utterly tabOoed, and
just as regularly, as spring arrives, these
delectable garments come trOOping back
into tho ShOnc on1 n9UnriU nI1rHh sod
by the very women who had been declar-
ing that they had given them up forever.
This year, at the close of winter, the
same prediction was made, but at pres
ent the shops display large variety
of the most charming blouses and they
are selling like the proverbal shot
cakes"
There was a time when the lingerie
waist was a baggy looking affair, which
foamed over the belt at sides, front and
back. and so perfectly disguised the lines
have looked slovenly in it. But the re-
form which gradually took place has
resulted in a garment almost as trim and
smart as is a tailored coat. These fea-
lures are especially noticeable in the new
models. which have a shoulder yoke Dor
dered with lace turning at the throat line
and running down each side of these
dainty confections between fine lines of
tucks extending from the yoke to the
belt The military blouses are among
the smartest looking of all the new types
and are quite as trim as their name i'm
plies, for the fronts. entirely of haIf-incf
tucks, close beneath broad bands of
heavy lace or boldly patterned embroid-
ery Similar bands with pointed ends
cross the shoulders in epaulet fashion.
High, straight collars trim the necks,
and the long sleeves of bands and tuck
groupings in entre-deux effect are of con-
the new b1ouses are such a maze of en-
broidery, lace and handwork that the
woman who has not unlimited bank &C
count turns from them with despair.
Women who are skillful with the needle
can easily provide for themselves an eX-
ceedingly smart waist by buying hand
some, but plain pattern and doing their
own embroidering.
It is quite probable that lace has never
been used so generally and for such
large variety of purposes as at the pres
ent time. The touch of lace is evident
on almost every part of woman's cos
tune. Lace has left the ballroom and
the b0udoir, and can be seen on the streets
in irresistible combination with different
parts of an outdoor costume. Few things
seem to escape the fascinating frill; the
wearers may revel in it to their hearts
delight 1t is used as an undersleeva
for the broadcloth street gown. Ecru lace
is gathered into a velvet ribbon band and
a ruffle of lace falls over the hand.
Even the hat is under the spell of the
lace. The lace has been pleated and is
used to outline the velvet buckle form on
the front of the hat. There is a certain
freshness supplied by lace in this in
stance; and, moreover, continuation is
possible by the removal of the lace and
return after cleaning. Lace is also used
to fill the space between the lapels of the
short coat Net edged with gold lace
falls in becoming pisse.
The most generally becoming of the
large hats is of course the one with brlm
rolling or rather lifted very slightly
across the front and rolling decidedly but
not close to the crown on the left side,
and there are scores of variations upon
this theme among the loveliest of the
new models.
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