The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-09
HINTS FROM new YORK
Fads and Fashions Which Are "All
the Go" in the Next Largest City in
the WOrld-What's What in Modes.

predlctlOnS DlOuSeS are more popular
than ever this season and scrutiny
of the displays in the big fashionable
shops will convince anyone that this
seasons blouses are exceptionally
pretty and effective. One of the most
striking features is the employment
of frills for ornamentation Frills
are decidedly impractical, especially
with lingerie waists or Dlouses, but
they are pretty and give a dainty eff
feet that cannot be obtained by any
other style of ornamentation.
The frill collar implies a bare
throat, or at least that is the case
with the lingerie models, though in
the costume blouses of chiffon, crepe,
etc, frill neck finish is often accom-
panied by the shallowest of trans
parent guimpes with close high col
| lar. In the lingerie model this idea
does not work out very well and
where a high collar is required the
| frill usually runs down the front.
The collarless blouse, like the col
larless frock, has things very much
| its own way in Paris, save for delight
full little sheer tucked and frilled and
long-sleeved models designated as
tailored; but although the chic Par
isian has taken up tine collarless mod
els with enthusiasm there are always
women even in Paris VINO refuse
! slavishly to adopt unbecoming modes,
and in New York there are plenty of
fashionable women who will have
none of the collarless models.
When collarless frock or blouse is
becoming, it is charming, but few
women past their teens wear it well
in connection with a severe street
costume. In such cases the hard col
lar line should be softened by a lin
gerie frill or embroidered lingerie
collar falling over the tailored collar
and coming next to the throat. There
are numbers of such collars in all
grades of fineness and usually accom-
panied by cuffs to match.
The yelling idea has strongly in
fiuenced the designers of costume
blouses and many of the prettiest
models in this class are of chiffon
silk mousselne or etamine yelling silk
or satin. lace or contrasting chiffon
The idea is not altogether new, but
the treatment is, for the blouses fol-
low the froclt lines, and the best look
ing of the yelled models are excess
svely simple in line and have most
of their elaboration, if elaboration
there is, applied to the foundation,
while the sheer yelling is of the most
pronounced simplicity.
Sometimes, where the collarless eff
feet is not desired. instead of intro
ducing a guimpe the yelling chiffon
or mousseline is run on up to form a
perfectly plain yoke and collar, semi
transparent of course and perhaps
relieved by a line of white or cream
at the collar top. Often two veilings of
chiffon are used in order TO obtain a
desired color effect.
The bordered chiffons are used for
some attractive little blouses of sim
pie line, surplice arrangement with
the modified kimono sleeve being a
design often chosen for such ma
terial. Persian or cachemire silks
yelled in plain chiffon, cachemire chit
fon yelled in plain chiffon and cache
mere chiffon or mousseline in
equisite soft tones without veil
ing are popular blouse motifs
and much is done with these
charming antique printed cottons or
cretonnes yelled in plain chiffon or
made up without yelling and softened
by net or lace collars and frlls and
touches of black in cravats, buttons,
etc.
The newest models in very hand
some handmade lingerie blouses are
composed of heavy, sole handwoven
linen, beautifully embroidered in
iaces. The cotton crepes are less used
by the blouse makers than they were
last season, but some handsome mod
els are made up in the fine cotton et-
amines. White linon embroidered in
color is much liked, the touch of
openwork designs and combined with
the sheerest of linon and finest of
color echoing some one of the tones
in skirt and coat with which the
blouse is worn.
The designers of millinery are pro-
ducing new hats of great and inter-
testing variety. Some of them are
charming or quaint; others are ex-
traordinary in size ana line, and the
rest are wonderfully beautiful in line
and color. here are some hats that
reach down to the eyebrows, with
trimming sloping abruptly toward the
back. giving an unbecoming, ton
heavy appearance that few women
can wear and look we'll. On very tall
and slim women these hats look per-
fectly grotesque.
There are so many pretty and be-
coming shapes to choose from that it
is pity to encourage the freakish.