The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-19
PADS AND FASHIONS

Surplice lines are very much used 1T
 bodices.
 | A notable feature of day dresses is l the open neck.
 Fumes are assuming the shape of g | question mark.
 Rust red is a color which Is being | thrust to the front. | Berries In satin and crepe de chine | are shown in clusters. The printed silks seem to hold fa- vor for afternoon wear. The new veilings are extremely dainty in design and mesh. Many kimono models are shown foI street and house wear. In the modern corset, the figure is allowed full freedom and ease.
 Many large hats are being worn at smart afternoon receptions. The Medfci collar of a modied type appears on many froclks. Heels are frankly high, except for the buttoned and lace boots.
 Colored hip sashes are worn with embroidered crepon lingerie dresses. Crocheted lace in dull colors is com bined with brilliant embroidery.
 Aigrettes and paradise plunes are much in evidence on the new mil1in- cry.
 Contrasting coats of brocaded silk or crepe are worn with separate skirts.
  finished with broad girdles at the waist line.
 Ingenious checked and striped mater ials are very fashionable for tailored suits.
 Skirts for street wear are plain from the knees down. and have bell-shaped overskirts.
 When a transparency is used for a guimpe and collar, it is of the most filny tulle or lace.
 Odd yellow or geranium broche silk boIero habit corsages are worn with lingerie skirts.
 Skirts are carefully tied and cling closely, but leave plenty of room for ease of movement. The new cotton dresses, trimmed with vfvid1y tinted embroidery, are particularly successful.
 Field flowers and grasses and wheat ears are combined very charming1y on the new hats.
 Skirts are growing more scant at the feet, and in evening gowns are slash ed almost to the knees. Noire is a popular material for the spring suit, in delicate tones of gray, rose, violet and green. Many hats have no brirns at all, and when this detail does appear, 1t is rolled or flares off the face.
 Very attractive are the small color ed silk flowers worn on the new hats harmonizing with the ribbon used Buttons are 8, modish trimming, and a collection of new designs shows some an inch and a half in diameter If VOL care to be u1tra-chic, have a small flower embroidered on the left. rever of your white tailored suit.
 Long, close-ftting sleeves are set in at the normal armhole and finished with wrist puffs of mousseline de sole.
 There is not much to be said about the length of coats except that the Is 1 hnnn abandon ed.
 The finely checked pink and white gingham has reappeared, in fine cloth, made up into morning trotteur cos tunes.
 For summer there are white cotton crepe eponge Or ratfne skirts, with coatees of quaint floral designs in English print. The latest fantasie in millinery is in the form of antennae- It may be straight ostrich feather, a quill Or a peacock feather.
 Black stockings are often worn with black pumps but some very smartly gowned women wear stockings to match their gowns.
 Many lingerie dresses are made of embroidered crepon voile, the simple
 skirt being trimmed with a founce of embroidered tu1le. The lace neck ruff1e, standing uE 1 right at the back and falling softly away from the neck at the front, is a | favored fashion in neckwear. 1 A new idea on many suits is to bind | the upper half of the buttonhole with | a band of one color, and the lower with | another harmonizing color. 1 pretty hat is covered with white ] crepe and trimmed with white picot- | edged ribbon. The front is finished | with a small bunch of colored flowers The new colors in tailored suits are i Chinese blue, Bulgarian green, wood
 brown, light and dark grays, terra l cotta rose, brick and other tones ot
 red.
 The little coat is a great feature. Ii i or less coat-tailed at the back Some | extend no more than three inches be 1 low the waist line. Chic afternoon dresses and tailored
 suits have draped and haf-pleated 1 tpnic skirts trimmed with silk sou l tache The short bo1eros and coats show embroideries. There are dozens of cutaway styles from the quiet conservative two-but- | toned dip-back model to the one al most duplicating the coat of a mans l evening dress suit. A pretty Russian hair ornament is made of narrow black velvet light | ly set with tiny brilliants, with a paste cabochon at one side, which holds black mercury wing in posi- ton.
 Black patent leather shoes, with white tops, are worn with the tailor l ed suits. There are also little short 1 toe6 shoes like slippers, in antelope.
 ribbed silk, doeskin and thick satin.