The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-29
PADS AND FASHIONS

Buttons will match the dress in coll Taffeta is much used for evening gowns.
 The new freak skirt frim Paris has no real future
 Waist lines are high and big-no wasp waists this year.
 Many of the new belt buckles imi- tate the buttoned effect.
 Etamine is extremely popular in every degree of weave.
 Plain leather belts are fashionable, especially in black and white.
 An effective material for summer dressen has a border done in bead ef- feet.
 Very striking is a white cotton mar low wheat.
 Wide colored ribbon and narrow widths of silk are used in all sorts of sash effects.
 The charming narrow, detached train remains with us for at least another season.
 Wide bands of lace finished with a border of ribbon are much used to trim skirts or tunics Greatly liked are little unlined taf- feta coats to be worn with any sort or color of a skirt.
 Ball fringe in the crocheted and gimp variety is seen on evening gowns
 
 Metal belts have come back with the bolero, closely fitting and hanging rather low at one side.
 The new bags are large and have long cord handles. Many are trimmed with fringes and tassels.
 All skirts, short or long, are fitted into a wide sirdle effect, rising high to meet the tiny corSage.
 With figured foulard gowns a pretty fancy is to have the hat trimmed, or covered with silk to match. Never in the history of dress has there been as good opportunities as now for the development of original ideas.
 All the feminine world will welcome the return of the new soft shining taffeta silks used in new street cos tunes.
 UnG ,r the transparent blouse or cor sage that finishes every costume the under chemisette is of fine English embroidery.
 Wide bands of lace, embroidery or self-fabric are the distinguishing fea- ture of the new French styles in dress trimmings.
 One of the yprettiest novelties of the spring-time for neckwear consists of a rosette of chrysanthemums of satin, with centre of yellow stamens similar to those used in artificial flow CTS.
 Under tunics and over dresses of white English embroidery and of filet lace are panels and false skirts of black velvet.
 Collar pins covered with lace the same as the trimmings on the frOck or blouse of lingerie are charmingly sim pie and dainty.
 A new taffeta silk gown lately seen had its close hung skirt trimmed from belt to hem with narrow gathered frills four inches wide.
 Fabric bags are to be very popu- lar. sometimes combined with leather, the leather forming a skeleton through which the fabric shows.
 Kimono sleeve is still seen on blouses, and on few simple house dresses, but the newest garments are marked by its absence.
 at the hem of a lingerie gown will raise it indubitably from the passe to a model of this seasons style.
 The short coat with the high half belt in the back controlling a little fullness should be avoided by all save those with an erect slender figure.
 Crepe meteor, charmeuse, messaline and changeable and glace silks are all used as foundations for the frock of chiffon, voile and marquisette.
 Roses, roses everywhere. They are placed on large and small hats, and are punched in wreaths, quills, rosettes or scattered over the straw and fabric,
 There is a strong effort on the part of several Of the best designers to in> troduce gowns of the Louis XVI pe- riod, and also the early Victorian styles.
 The new belts have deep points run ming from the front toward the back and almost encircling the figure. Sim pie metal buckles are used with these belts.
 Laces of every variety are used ex- tensively, especially on gowns of chif- ion, gauge and voile union. They are sometimes dyed to match the color of the gown.
 On new gowns of plain black silk or satin the corsage turns back in front into wide revers faced with any strong color-emerald green, bright red or flame color.
 A nice skirt for a tailored costume has two lines of buttons, closing with real buttonholes. One is on the left right side of the back.
 Fancy scarfs in net and chiqffon with printed borders in color remain in style. One new idea is a chiffon scarf in fiat artificial flowers applied in an irregular border.
 Adjustable collars woven of color ed heads in the form of a round yoke, with hanging bead pendants in front, are a new form of the rage for this primitive adornment.
 Swagger and jaunty enough to please any taste are long satin and silk coats that slope sharply back from the bust closing to a width at the hem at the back, not exceeding a foot.
 Many hand-embroidered French linen dresses have the body part of the waist and sleeves of eyelt em- broidered cotton, while the yoke, front panel and sleeve band are of the r1brojderod linen