Evening journal., 1912-09-14
STREET DRESS is SEVERELY PLAIN
Leather Covered or Horn
hinged Buttons Most Fash
iOnable for WOOIen Suits
AFEW WORDS ABOUTSLEEvES

immensely popular with French wo-
iaen. Long. straight lines down the
front. rounding oil toward the back !
mark the joining of the front and
sides. and suggest q long tunic over
an underskirt of another color or ma
terial The development OF this trock
I'm a combination of white and black
and-white pin-strired serge Is note
worthy achievement of the dress
makers art. for with all its apparent /
simplicity il complies strictly with /
the requirements of fashion. II is al
most untrimmed save by the row OF |
black velvet buttons down the front !
of waist and skirt The collariess (
neck is finished with narrow baud
and tiny bow Of velvet, and the same
note is repeated in the sharply-turn-
ed points on teh cuffs. Teh narrow
girdle is. Of course, also of black vel
vet
Like all really good designs, this
/ dress will serve with perfect satistac-
tion as a model for gowns developed
in various combinations of color and
material. More serviceable for the
average woman would be one with
plain blue serge where this is white,
! the other parts being made Of blue
finely striped with white. And who
would not find many uses for a silk
dress made I'm the same fashion, hg-
ured or striped, combined with the
plain shade Of the ground in ones
own favorite and becoming colorf
AS to the buttons. that is again a
question of serious consideration. Re
cent reports from fashion experts tell
us we must no longer adorn our dress
with the crystal globehets we well
coined with enthusiasm in the spring.
II YOU have them on the street dress
or suit you desire to wear this tall,
observe discretion and retire those
buttons In favor of cloth or leather
ones the shade of your material
eather-covered buttons made their
debut last season. but were seen only
on a few ultra gowns Now, 1t is
said. a capricious fancy is rolling
them into favor and they promised
much attention this fall Smart but
tons are those which have centerF
B OF cloth. of bone of mother-of-pearl
e surrounded by circles of horn These
{ come in sufficient variety TO enable
4 YOU to carry out any chosen color
10 scheme not too much ont of the usua
p run OF things sartorial and they
2 seem less severe than the leather
g buttons. Doubtless, as the season ad
- vances and all these minor accessor
l. les find their own place, leather but
n tons will be recognized as especially
Y appropriate for the woolen top-coa
IS worn for motoring and travelling. OF
k al the most. find place rather ol
e our tweed or cheviot rough-and-read
st suits than on our satin house gowns
a Gun-metal buttons are favorite
p, with many persons, and have wild
g. range of usefulness. They have n
IN quarrel with a silken frock and al
er quite at home on serge. But the
ny most favorable environment will
nd found this season in the taupe al
or mouse-colored broadcloth. which y
d are assured. will be the chic suit du
Sc ing the coming winter. Such a su
at, was recently seen at a fashion di
r. play on Fifth Avenue. 10 had a Dire
ey toire collar. sewers and cuffs of gra
nd velvet edged with loops Of gray sill
lis and tiny gun-metal buttons wit
IT. loops of gray silk trimmed the
ia points Larger buttons of the san
It metal fastened the fronts of the coa
IL The skirt had four pleats straig
down the back. each one-inch VIE
lis and all laid in the same directio
in The right front overlapped the le
of in a long. straight line curving awi
ms at the bottom to show a short ins'
pleated section
. Pleats are featured on many Of q
new skirts.
This cut illustrates a favorite a