East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-06-14
NEW YORK FASHIONS.

Recently returned from the land OF
has beens" are striped silks in a
great variety of designs. Some have
plain stripes of strong color; others
show a delicately flowered stripe in
| contract to a pale tinted one, and 9TH
ers have irregular stripes in the old
fashioned "chine" effects separated
by narrow black lines. These when
worn with little coats of black silk
or satin are charming. Pale yellow
silk striped irregularly with fine
clustered black lines is one of the IA
vored patterns for afternoon frocks,
and the skirts of such gowns are full
Ter than tailored skirts.
Some of the newest skirts measure
as much as three yards about the hem
which is vast improvement upon
the models that have obtained for the
past few months.
Lace is used much less in the or
namentatiOn of gowns than plain
white linen and English embroidery.
but a hint of this was given in the
last of these letters. When lace is
used, it is generally employed as an
underdress, seen dimly through a
transparency. Gowns made en- entire
ly of white English embroidery, done
in an excessively open design and
worn over a slip of black satin, have
become extraordinarily chic. Belted
with black velvet ribbon or with a
long fringed sash of black silk, they
are quite devoid of color, except in
the accessories of parasol, stockings,
etc.
A French dressmaker famous for
the beauty of her lingerie frocks used
quantities of the finest possible tucks
set in lengthwise rows. In the mar
rowest bands, often measuring less
than half an inch across and framed
in narrow rows of fancy open stitch
ing, they form wide borders on the
skirts and perhaps compose the en-
tire corsage. Wider bands, perhaps
measuring several inches-framed in
lace entredeaux, alternate with bands
of plain colored batiste on white ba-
tiste gowns.
one sees a good many of the belted
coats and through the accepted cor
setting and silhouette prevents even
a belted garment from giving trim,
small wasted linet, it is rather re-
freshing to see occasionally a coat
that does not altogether obliterate
the curves of the body as do SO many
of the short loose coats.
a fancy for making whole frocks
or blouses of Englaise or eyelet en-
broidery trimmed in plain material
has brought out many distressing de-
velopments of this idea in cheap
coarse materials, but in fine lingerie
stuffs combined with plain linen or
even plain linen the results are often
admirable. one of the protest little
tub frocks that has been seen this
season has its body of bug linen
embroidered all over in openwork de-
sign. A deep band of plain bug lin
en- forms the lower half of the skirt
and narrow bands run up from it to
the shoulders on each side of the
front and back. The short sleeves
are chiefly of plain sheer linen with
emboldery running out over them a
little from the shoulders, and cuffs Of
the embroidery. 4 narrow girdle and
pIlnp DOW OF DlaCk NelNet uellneS tne
high waist line. Frocks somewhat
similar to this, or at least of the same
general character are shown in all the
light colors and in white, and there
are effective models too in white with
the embroidery done in color and
with the plain material either of the
white or the color.
White serges with relieving notes
of black are to be seen everywhere,
and white serges with broad sailor
collars of green. cerise, purple and
lavender are among the unique mod
els offered for country club, seashore
and casino wear. They ae strikingly
smart and If one chooses to subdue
the brilliant color of the collar and
cuffs by overcuffs and revers of
sheerest white or cream colored hem
stitched batiste the effect is still more
meautiful White braid is used in
great quantities upon serge frocks of
all kinds, but it is of very plain va