Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-28
Fashions Designed for Winter Resorts

about hip depth. Quite the most at
tractive feature of the frock was the
deep straight founce of lace This
/ f1ounce did not extend across the front
lit ended just slightly within the
! edges of the panel formed by the CEN
terfront tucks The tucked upper por-
I ton was laid into this fiounce with the
tucks perfectly fat.
The selection of the southern outfit
( is naturally influenced by just which
resort is 10 be visited. AT Palm Beach
/ the midwinter Newport of this country,
far more elaborate and complete out
fit is requisite than at Nassau. for ex-
ample, where life is simpler and the
visitors go in much more genuinely
for unfettered outdoor life. Bermuda,
again, requires a less summerlike
rousseau, and there must be smart
cloth costumes and gowns of wolfe and
silk instead of only the linen and lin
serie frocks that the climate of Flor
ida demands. At Aiken, on the other
hand, and the different communities in
Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia such
an outfit as would do service in the
north during the early spring will be
what is needed
a charming frock which was one of
an outfit such as the/latter referred to
is shown in the second illustration. 1t
was made of hairline striped serge. The
background was deep ecru and the
stripe a deep purple-a charming color
combination. The little bodice was
Joined TO the skirt with a Tapped seam
in semi-princess style and in the cen
ter-front there was a three-quarter
length panel, at the left side of which
the closing was effected. There were
aJtractively shaped revers at the neck
opening, and these, as well as the turn
back cuffs, We're made of white silk
edged with wide fiat and soutache
braid At the lower edge of the skirt
there was a founce of the silk-ex-
tending up the center-front in tab eff
feet and outlined with the braid The
costume was worn over a guimpe fash
toned OF VaIenciennes insertion.
This winter. as is apt to be the case
when cold weather starts in unusually
early, the Florida and far southern re-
sorts are to be the most fashionable /
and the energies of all arbtters of Sasn-
ion are now bent upon all the evolving
of the coolest of lawn and batiste
frocks: the shops show almost entire
ly the sheerest of fabrics, and in the
establishments are displayed
only the most summerlike of bonnets. /
The midwinter-summer frocks are all J
exceptionally attractive this year with /
their short skirts, narrow only to the
point of gracefulness, for the intrica- /
cies of the "hobble" have now been
pretty generally mastered. The waist
line is placed but slightly above nor
NAL position and the semi-Empire
lines are carried out in many of the .
newest models. For warm weather /
short sleeves are so much more COM
Portable than those made full length I.
that these are once again being made /
for the south, but there is an equal /
number of frocks seen with the full
length sleeve as ii is contended by
many that long gloves must be worn
so frequently with the short sleeves
that in the end this style is the hot
test. No simple gowns. however, have
the short sleeves-that is the plain
linens and the style of gown designed
for general morning wear. Dutch !
necks will be worn in the south this
season by very young girls, but by
older women in the evening only.
GOWNS FOR EVENING WEAR
AT the more fashionable southern
hotels low-cut evening gowns have,
during the last few years, sprung into
general favor. The debuntante and
the bride with her generous trousseau Il
will have charming evening frocks
fashioned of lace and chiffon or of net Il
embroidered and combined with soft
lace: but satin. silk and all the more
elaborate dinner gowns that have done 4
service in the winter outfit are quite (