The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-12

lines de sole, sometimes yelled,
sometimes yelling plain founda-
ton and relieved by plain color,
sometimes merely used as a trim
ming or for part of a frock. The
cashmere borders on plain chiffons
and mousselines are cleverly used,
but they demand cleverness, for they
are not easily handled with success.
Narrow borders are much more cas-
lily managed than deep affairs, and
the narrow borders on some of the
seasons best foulards have enabled
the designers to obtain admirable
results in ways comparatively sim
pie
Selvages are often used quite as
| if they were borders, and with good
results. Some of the sheer mater
ials have inch wide, heavily ribbed
which make an excellent finish for
the thin material, and selvages in
contrasting colors, particularly in
black and white, have delightful pos
sibilities. This use of the selvage
does away with the necessity of a
hem, which is often thick and clum-
/ sy from the present modish point
of view. Facing with chiffon which
extends into a lining throughout is
device by which the thickness of
a hem is sometimes avoided where
it would interfere with the utter
limpness and suppleness desired
The kingling of lingerie materials
with silks, heavy or transparent, is
not new, but more models of this
class are to be seen this season than
ever before, and most of them are
uncommonly attractive. A lingerie
frock beautifully embroidered and
made up on the simplest lines has a
skirt of the linen very slightly
fulled and with deep embroidered
points at the bottom, running down
upon band of cerise mousseline de
sole, which reaches almost to the
knees and forms the bottom of the
skirt. On the simple embroidered
collarless corsage scarf of the
cerise mousseline starts under an
embroidery epaulette on each Shout
der. The draped scarfs cross below
the bust line in front and are car
ried around in girdle fashion to the
back, where they fall in short sash
ends.
Every variation of the wide-brim-
med hat will be seen during the
coming season. Crowns are round or
square and trimmings vary from
the simple quill or ribbon bow to
clouds of maine and veritable gar
dens of roses. Their variations intro
duce us to lace which is yelled with
| maline and to small beds of bios
| sons studded with larger roses.
Brims vary in shape and method of
their rolling. Some of them are turn
ed sharply up once, twice or even
crowns of extreme lowness and the
merest bit of embroidered ribbon as
trimming. Flowers are handmade
and so are leaves and the simplest
wreath of roses is considered ample
decoration for the very fiat hat
which is becoming to those who
cannot wear the rolling brims.
Hats faced with black are holding
their own for becoming reasons.
Shapes and sizes have never been
more flexible. Trimming has never
ben more unique and so long as the
distinctive hat is produced it may
take on whatever lines and colors
prove most becoming.
The latest hosiery shows more ell
aborate patterns in sthe higher-pric-
ed designs and many beautiful inno-
vations. Those beaded across the
instep and up the ankle are, per-
haps the most novel, while others
embroidered in vinelike designs ap-
pear more graceful than those with
the decorations scattred indiscrim-
inately in an all-over or loose pat
tern.
"a design accentuating a circle
just above the instep is new, and
there are innumerable drop-stitch
effects in the weave that will have
reader sale than for several past
seasons. The colors are unusually
varied and can he found to match
any gown. Some are of most beau
tiful changeable silk, while others
are so closely embroidered that they
have the two-toned effect without
bling actually woven in that way.
FLORENCE FAIRBANKS.
Femiine Topics.