The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-02-22

Inc combination OF frab1cs and col
ors is among the novelties. Plain fab +
RIGS combined with brocades are spe-
cially smart. White skirts with bright
colored coats will be worn when warm
weather arrives. In the three-piece
suits the coat may match the dress or
may be of another fabric. A few
ment to the three-piece suits.
Among strictly tailored waists those |
mannish shirts with the soft turned |
down collar and cuffs are popular |
Usually they are made of washable
crepe de chine, heavy China silk and
madras in white, and white with col
cred stripe. Buttons OF colored glass
are very effective when they match the
stripe of the silk.
In addition to the mannish silk
waists that are worn with the strictly
tailored suit the business woman will
welcome those in challis, flannel and
albatross. Many of these are made
in the usual mannish style, with the
front opening. and soft collar and cuffs,
but there are very attractive models,
slightly more elaborate and more
|, feminine, with bits of hand embroid-
cry, and fancy collar and cuffs Of sat
in. AS rule, flannel is used for the
tailored waists, and pretty challis and
colored albatross for the more elabo-
rate models, but since all of them laun-
der beautifully, the light tones need
not be bar to the usefulness of the
blouse.
: On dark-hued waists there is always
touch of white at the neck, a frill
or yoke. The ground of the Scotch
plaids used for some of these blouses
is usually a blue, brown, green or
: black with the plaid picked out in
vivid stripes of red, blue, green or vel
7 low, Taupe, purple, old gold and kings
! blue stripes appear in the newest
t plaids shown by the importers.
l One Of those changes usually de
scribed as radical has taken place In
b the cotton suits and frocks that have
4 been shown during the past weeks tc
attract women bound for Southern re
sorts. Immediately after Christmas
y the show windows were full of white
s embroidered linens and elaborate mod
y els in Irish lace. OF course, these
} we're simply the stock left over from
g last summer, when Irish lace has al
q ready begun to sing it's swan song
IL Now these dresses have quite vanish
l. ed and their places have been takel
IS by embroidered cotton crepes an,
y voiles, new ratines, linen crashes will
borders, and, in the more elaborat
IL costumes, by washable tulle, combines
4 with embroidered batiste, crepe o
IL wolfe. Some of these tulle dresses ar
IS most deliberately made.
s. One clever designer has made use o
IL French idea in devising blouses o
Is this tulle and other extremely shee
s. fabrics. By themselves, as every won
IT an knows, net waists are so delicat
B. that the wearing of them is a some
u what trying and uncertain proceeding
IS 1t is practically impossible to ancho
them securely In any one position
And there can be no such quality a
eft" because of the necessity of hay
ing them large in order to keep then
from breaking out.
/ This New York designer has go
around these objections by putting
corset cover of lace, embroidery an
r ribbons inside the net waist and fas
tsning both corset cover and waist t
the same belt. The ribbons can b
run in and taken out at will and tn
a combination corset cover and blous
IS easily Numbered in one piece. Thes
i blouses are a distinct novelty and quit
n an expensive one. Another model b
q the same designer is in white cotto
y crepe with regular Montenegro iacl
II et also of the crepe, but with a PEI
d sian border The coloring is repeate
g in the buttons and the bow at the necl
J. Girdles and sashes are becomin
/ more stunning as the season advances
d Many of the sashes are fringed an
!; embroidered. They may be almos
, any width, but perhaps the most pol
ular is from four to six inches.
q There is a new soft taffeta Gale
D. fleur de soie 1t is so soft that full
ID width thirty inches can be draw
l. through a finger ring.
l. Among the new materials is Gallo
+ crepe chiffon, which is to be had
" plain tints and changeable effects
in