The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-01-11

New York, Jan. 11.-One of the
most striking features of present-day
fashion is the extensive use of laces
for the trimming of gowns, coats,
blouses and hats. Every known va
riety of laces is used for some pur
pose, but it requires good taste and
judgment to select the right kind of
lace in each individual case. The use
of white laces on dark gowns is al
ways dangerous experiment. Where
such combination is used the laces
should be of very good quality. A
touch of real lace on dark gown will
lend distinction and dignity to it. But
the dark colors bring the lace so much
into prominence that it must needs
be a very good quality for the gown
is hopelessly cheapened.
Inexpensive laces may be used to
any extent on thin summer materials
and they add note of daintiness and
airyness. The thinness and lightness
of most summer materials do not vie
with the laces for prominence, but the
one blends with the other and there
are no sharp contrasts. Lace flounces
on thin materials add both to the ma.
terial and the general effect of the
attire, but lace flounces on either
skirt or bodice in dark winter ma
terials give an appearance of business
which is always to be avoided.
Thin nets and laces which are moi
real may be used for high collars ant
yokes, for here they are not placed OF
the material itself and the flesh be
meath them softens them. They are
placed in juxtaposition to the materia
of the gown, but not on it. Wherever
lace is placed on a material so tina
it brings out strongly the pattern o
the lace and its quality, it must b,
one that can bear inspection or it ha,
better not be used at all.
Crepe de Chine and China silk will
be extensively used this spring, an
crepe de Chine as a lining is reall
ideal. Woman have grown accustome
to the heavy brocades and silks as liz
ings for fur and evening wraps, an
yet nothing could be a greater mis-
take, for these heavy garments nee
soft lining to preserve the sof
clinging lines demanded this year.
Black crepe de Chine for mournin
is used almost entirely for indoc
gowns and trimmings of white crep
on these gowns are being used nor
and more. In fact white mournin
crepe as trimmings and for entir
waists is much in demand. Whit
crepe is becoming more popular eac
day and the shops are showing a
manner Of neck pieces made Of tn
material. White collars and jabots al
; edged with it and entire bows mad
of 1t. There is a softness and simpli
ity about it which make 1t suitab
for mourning where one wishes to r
lieve the heavy effect of first mour
4 ing.
3 There is every indication that stra
: hats will be worn a great deal durir
S the spring season. The importers a.
e already beginning to show some
j the new models. There seems to |
a gradual tendency toward hats TIL
roll up at the side and back and al
trimmed at the back. Some stra
!. models with high crowns and tir
brims are also shown, though on Il
q larger hats the crowns are quite fl
J. or melon shaped. There is a scoC
t shaped hat which rolls up at the baC
0 and has almost a bonnetlike effec
j and with one single plume posed
t the back makes charming frame (,
j a pretty face.
/ Most of the straw braids seen
far as extremely fine and narrow, al
as many of these hats will ba MOI