The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-26

by raising the tops of the skirt more or
less and holding 1t in place with an in
rer girdle. Most of the tailored skirts
are made that way and are finished
with absolute plainness or with some
narrow line of braiding or other trim
ming.
In spite of this tendency there are
many skirts ending at the normal waist
line and there is denying that the
woman naturally short of waist line
and ample of curves looks very much
better in a tailored skirt trinity belted
at the natural waist line. The ordinary
separate tub skirt too Is much more
practical when made with waist band
than when raised and finished with the
supporting inner girdle. and so there
is still a demand for smart belts,
though that demand is less insistent
| than usual.
| Wide soft belts of black satin, MORE
| or velvet seem to be more in evidence
than belts of leather in the exclusive
lsops and colored belts In these ma
terials are also shown. They usual
| ly finished with large fiat buckles COW
cred with material and a note this
spring is a fiat bow of the material laid
under the buckle A similar fat bow
often appears also at the back of belt
under a round. oval or rectangular slide
or buckle. The same bow and buckle
idea is carried out In the soft feathers
and even In patent leather, but with
less pleasing results than in the case
of the silk belts.
Some very handsome white belts on
these lines have touches of embroidery
in black or in color on the silk covered
| buckles and there are, of course, many
silk belts with beautiful metallic or
jewelled buckles. but these. while often
etremely expensive are hardly so good
looking for present belt purposes as
the more severe designs.
The popularity of white and black
com binations has brought about a
particularly large showing in white
leather belts trimmed in black patent
leather and one finds also white MORE
trimmed in the black patent leather.
hen there are wide, soft belts of fine
dull finish leather suede in all OF
the modish coolrings These at their
best have the big. fiat, plain buckles
covered with leather, but OCCASIONALLY
and some attractive effects are obtain
ed with fine stel embroidery.
The bead embroidery prevalent this
year finds a place among the belts
sometimes forming entire buckles
sometimes merely bordering narrowly
the belt and buckle edges Certain
girdles in imitation semi precious
stones are very handsome in their way
but must be knowingly worn with jus
the right frock.
New evening corsets that fit and in
close the figure like an armor are sale
to be extremely comfortable Made o
silk woven jersey cloth pliable a
| a glove. and as strong as satin. they arr
cut very low above the belt. Asid
from the front steel and the supper
for the back lacing. they are practical
ly boneless; only one bone is place,
| at each side, over the hips. The cor
set lengthens to the knees, shaping
into a leg open on the inside; a.
elastic strap set halfway between
thigh and knee holds 1t about the leg
the lacing bones reach ito the lowe
ledge, curving with the body. Thi
corset aims to preserve the slende
silhouette, nothing being worn over
except the trifie of lace and ribbo
| that serves for a cache-corset. Instea
of the usual narrow colored ribbon
fused for service and in the adornmen
| of this garment. wide ribbons worr
banding it and drawing it into tn
scheme of decoration of the soft, trans
parent corsage.
FLORENCE FAIRBANKS