Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-28

web texture, with a rolling collar of fine
lace showing u string of pearls.
The Colored Blouse.
Each year the fashion makers try to
bring in cOlored blouses. In winter they
are of satin, in summer they are of
| muslin. This spring is exception to
the seasons that have gone before. Fine
muslin waists in the pastel shades are
advocated as bits of color for white suits
They are not as attractive as white ones
with cOlOred trimming, but some women
| like them and use them for the sake of
variety in the mountains and at the sea-
| shore. If they not of thin material
and Well and simply made they are I'M
attractive. They lend nothing to d white
! suit. When a white blouse is lavishy
| trimmed with colored muslin or even satin
/ the effect is artistic.
One should not indulge in masses of
! lace and hand embroidery to take the
| eye away from the pieces of coOred mus
| lin used: one should cling To the plain
| blouse which the French women orig
mated and from which they have never
| turned. The American woman is far too
apt 10 make friends with ornamentatioE
and she will buy a cheap blouse with
| yards of embroidery and lace on it in
preference To a plain one that has nothing
| hemstitched.
If one needs d colored blouse for a col
| ored suit of linen or shantuns it is wise
trick to have it trimmed with white or
cream muslin. and il also adds to its APP
pearance TO have eYeiet work outlined
! with white merceriZed floss.
We are going TO Wear many black suits
this spring III linen and co,ton weaves and
! there Is no doubt that we going to
/ Wear quantities of tan. yellow and gold ,
\ l,- o,-f her here
fore it is more than probable. thai the
smart women Will adopt soft null waists
/ in any shade of tan with black suit
Such combinations have. been made Sul
! the south. one coat suit OF black shan
| tung has Il fun blouse of gold colored
! null made on an oid-fas honed model
| thai has come back into prominence: Il
| is gathered back and front To Il shallow
shoulder yoke and attached By seam
| beading. The rolling Eo6espierre collar
/ is of white chiffon cloth, hemsttched. and
| the cravat is of white cluny lace edged
with black. The sleeves are long put
, into lowered armholes with seam bead
! ing and finished with deep tight cuff.
which has IA small roll over of hemstitch-
ed white chiffon cloth. All the buttons are
J of Irish crochet.
The back of this black coat, by the way.
! has odd touch in 4 ,hree-nch patent
leather belt. ending ut the side seams with
small patent leather buckles. On the
! back of the high WASTED skirt there is
J
side seams. and its buckle is i'll the mid
! die
White Lace Blouses
! The revival of white lace gowns has
brought back the fashion for lace bouses.
and one sees many attractive designs
worn by fashionable women with suits
| that heretofore carried their own blouseS.
At charity bazaar recently held in Paris
| the smar; women contributed the blouseS,
and ii was interesting that nearly all of
them We're of lace or wash tulle inset
with lace This is a whole bundle of
straws to show the wind.
Simplicity is not the keynote of these
blouses. They are over Il lining of soft
| white null china silk. and and
! then there is II band of colored ribbon or
embroidered silk run around the figure
! below the bust This was once domi-
nant fashion III blouses and had many
points of merit. and the woman who likes
! il is at entire liberty to resume it..
Frills, are omitted, but there is broad
arrangement of pieated lace which drops
to the bust in the middle and to the waist
at each side There are high collars,
straight and boned; there are Medicis.
| Robespierres. and particularly Beau
! Brummels, with turnovers of vivid satin.
| The cuff also shows tiny flaps and revers'
and rolling cuffs of satin.
Shadow lace is the weave most chosen
! for these biouses but cluny has its fol-
| lowers, and one nfrequently the use
! of renaissance. which was once fash
| iOnabe. The shops sell blouSeS of il at
"A lower price than they ask for the other
| laceS because they are more simply made
and look as though they might have been
| left over from the stock of other days.
Copyright, 1918, 10y the Mcclure Newspaper