The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-28

lace, that results in stunning effect,
entirely removed from the bizarre. The
softening treatment is indisputable in
its beautiful effect on borices and sep
arate blouses. Brilliant patches of
color can be applied to an undergone
by means of paint, embroidery or in
set pieces of silk and If properly veil
ed the effect is harmonious.
Gold and silver tissues are yelled by
lace, gauge or net in all the accessories
which. this season, will be the impor-
tant features of a spring outfit. Bags,
purses, slippers. have come in for their
share of the yelling. The attractive
theater hats are generally yelled
thereby doubling their beauty.
Hats of brocade. satin. silk and ia
pestry are yelled with net, gold. silver
or bronze gauze with great success.
Net hats are OF one color. stiil, yelled
by another Huge bows of brocade,
net or lace are yelled with other trans
parent fabrics, that will increase the
glistening effect and double the color
value as trimming
The plain chiffon guimpe, with or
without high collar, which has been
! popular In Paris throughout the win
ter has gained still greater favor this
spring and is emphatically prominent
for the first time here. 1t was de-
signed. of course, with the aim of de-
tracing as little as possible from the
/ Dutch or French neck effects and yet
Disgusting neck not altogether fit
ted to court close scrutiny under the
bright light of day. and it serves that
, purpose admirably. but 1t has its dis
advantages. 1t soils easily and shows
the soil more quickly and insis silently
| q La Ir,,1n g.
| fectly its wrinkles are rather more
| Objectionable than those of the other
guimpe materials. and the collar stays
| of whatever kind they may be, do
seem TO loom up more aggressively
under the plain chiffon than under
any other sheer stuff.
The modish figure has waist en-
| larged to decrease the. apparent size
OF the hips and to give an approxi-
mate straight and narrow silhouette
| While this idea is not carried to ar
| extreme in all frocks, as in some of the
| strictly first empire or directoire mod
els and in a majority of the models
| launched by the sensational Poiret. the
old trim waist has certainly disappear
ed. and a small waist of well defined
curves looks oddly out of date.
Sleeves have not been radically
changed since last autumn. though on,
finds good many floppy draped ar
engagements along with the ubiquitou.
peasant and kimono sleeves. The dra
perry is of the simplest kind, often &C
complished merely by catching up
corner of edge at the sleeve bottom
turning 1t up in cuff fashion and at
taching 1t to the sleeve in such man
ner that some soft irregularity o
folds on movement will be attained
There are long sleeves of chiffon, too
fulled a little along one side or botl
sides and caught in loosely at tn
wrist.
! Dressy. tailor made coats usual.
| have sleeves broadly open at the bot
tom after the peasant style an
reaching a three-quarter length.
majority of these coats are quite shor
and very loose, but the chopped oi
effect consequent upon cutting the fig
ure so nearly in the middle is usuaIl
mitigated by the long lines of big col
lars or revers, running to the bottor
or almost to the bottom of the Goa
fronts. Where this is not done a tail
oFed hip length coat is likely to b
unbecoming to any but the slightes
figure, and it is a mercifui dispense