The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
FADS AND FASHIONS

cotton voiles' and zephyr cloth ar,
extremely popular for the building @
late summer frocks that are made ;
bit dressy with lace and embroider,
trimmings
For young girls manufactured pom
gee dresses are trimmed with scarle
or bright blue, giving at the sam,
Tune simplicity and suggestion o.
brightness.
The use of the narrower f1ounces OF
SHADOW lace on fancy dinner and ev.
ening costumes is !. new stvIe NOTE
that is expected to become as strons
on this side as it is abroad
Foundation gowns of eyelet lace are
yelled with chiffon and vice versa
TUNES and oyerdresseS of embroidery
are worn over dark and light-colored
satins and chiffons.
The side drapery effect on both
corsage and skirt of evening gowns is
Immensely favored and lends a certain
originality which would be difficuIt
otherwise to achieve
The buttons in use for coats and
suits are comparatively large and US
ually disk-shape, combining several
colors in the various layers of mater
1al, of which they are composed.
Some of the new tailored serge dres-
ses are showing broad bands of en-
is trimmed with light blue; red with a
brighter shade, and so on
SILK seal pushes are extremely well
suited for making up long outer gar
ments to cover the many yelled cos
tunes that will be worn next fall and
winter by fashionable women
Three color combinations appear in
many evening toilettes. Blue, gold and
purple; pink, gray and silver: green
blue and white; violet, pink and gold
are samples Of the bewildering har.
monies
Trains Of evening dresses are small.
but not to be ignored. These are cut
square, sometimes with tassels on the
ends and again in fish-tail shape;
suggest modified point.
Nearly everywhere is to be seen the
little, transformations bag that match
es the gown with scallops and initial
done in white; and the bit of crochet
or drawn work or lace with which the
owners fair fingers are busy is what
is carried in 1t.
caps have their counterpart in the
rubber bathing cap, edged with a co.
quettish frill; and the satin bandeau
that on land is worn everywhere to
prevent the ravages of the breeze,
gives a very fetching touch to the
swimming costume, making beautiful
an otherwise ugly headgear.
Milan lace is coming into first fash
ion for thin frocks. 1t has a coarse
mesh and wide, bold design worked
out on it. F'ilet mesh ia also attrac-
tive and it is widely used for hand
some gowns and coats when 1t is half
covered with thick padded Chinese
embroidery
Garnitures have been brought out
in entirely new shapes. A new trim
ming by the yard consists of square
Or oblong motifs with triangular or
fancy pieces fitted against the lower
side of each parallelogram. FIRE.
quently the narrow band runs along
the top.
AS the season wanes that which per-
haps forces itself most upon ones no.
tice is the fad for mara bout A fur
ry material On light filmy fabrics
cannot help but strike the attention.
One sees it everywhere, both plain
On gowns and on evening wraps.
Evening gowns are becoming more
and more empire in style and more
as the months go by, in spite
of predictions to the contrary. All
of the gowns are made up over an I'M
derdress of some soft, clinging silk
or satin with tunic or redingote ov-
erdress.