Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-29

NEW YORK, July 29.-Afternoon
costumes, especially those imported
from Paris, show greater elegance
than ever before. Many of these cos
tunes are made from extremely beau
tiful and costly material and are ella.
borately trimmed. Yet, there are
some Of these afternoon toilettes tina,
nave an extremely dressy air with
out being necessarily extravagant,
They owe their smartness more to
clever selection of material or han
ding of line detail and color than to
expensive elaboration.
FlOwered taffetas pre- largely used
Tor these costumes. Many OF these
lowered taffetas are quaint at the ex.
pense of summary daintiness and
gaiety, showing blurred designs on
grounds of dull ola fashioned lines.
These are good looking for certain
purposes, but OF a midsummer after
noon the more delicate colOrings have
a greater charm and there are plenty
Of the light toned taffetas to choose
from. Those with white grounds
strewn with nosegays in Dresden col.
orings or in soft rather dull shades OF
blue and rose and violet, ETC., are per.
haps the most satisfactory, but there
are others, equally attractive, of pale
toned grounds, faint rose, blue de ciel,
maize, lilac, with scattered floral de-
sign in harmOnizing cOlOrs.
Such a taffeta worn by a pretty
blonde woman at a recent lawn tea
had a ground in pink so pale ana
creamy that it was almost flesh color,
with a rather large prim nosegay de-
sign in soft net clear blue and violet,
and was relieved by a bodice almost
entirely of blue creamy lace and pink
tulle.
The draped skirt of silk with bodice
almost or entirely o. very sheer ma
terial tigures very conspicuously
among the summer toilettes, the skirt
Of course being so much a part Of the
design that there is nc suggestion OF
separate skirt and bodice. With tho
popular draped frock of Simplest black
satin, for instance, there may be a
bodice of white or achre tulle or
sheerest linon and lace, the black OF
the skirt running up a little on the
white or perhaps invading the bodice
only in connection with the train,
starts in a point between the
or from the top of a high
IA new arrangement of dark
skirt and sheer white bodice showed
the fulled skirt of tulle rising above
narrow girdle in what may perhaps
be best described as a deep upstand-
ing frill tackled in its folds to a soft
draped bodice of white mOusseline de
sole and malines.
Black and Waite, despite all that
has been said to the contrary, has
been as popular as ever In Paris dur
ing the present season and In almost
any of the chic afternoon reunions
fully half Of the most successful cos.
were usually in black and
Black itulle, black mouseline de sole
and black Chantilly are literally used
in connection with soft white satin or
crepe de Chine or with white tulle,
silk voile, lace or linon. One of the
pretty frocks in this class was a
narrow robe of soft white
fastening all the way down
The front with l4..4e white satin but
IONS, the whole yelled, save in the
:ront panel, by a tunic Of beautiful
black Chantilly. fl This tunic was a
title full and the fronts met at the
waist line, where they were held by
! girdle of changeable rose taffeta.
3ut above this the lace parted to show
he white satin front, and below the
,irdle too, the lace was drawn back
with the faintest suggestion