New Britain herald., 1914-07-30

Always IL IS a part ol lHo II the bolero-coatee. Very chic. too, is that little jacket which pretends to be "a wrap, but which actually is a bodice, generally drawn over blouse of sheerness or transparency. Usually. too, the coatee's material matches the underdress or the band upon the skirt Nevertheless that is not hard and fast rule. For the charm about present. day fashions is that they per init of vagaries so long as the vagaries gre not of an outre sort.
 Certainly there is nothing what ever outre about costume in dark est green and chalk white which has Just started for the Adirondacks in company with the pretty girl who ordered it. The under dress in white serge scarcely shows beneath the hem 1. of straight falling overdress in green silk rep, trimmed about the hips at back and sides with green floss embroidered bias ruffle five inches wide, applied flatly. It's gar nishing accords with that bordering the bolero, which, onnly enough. is gathered into narrow belt defining a raised waist line and buckling over a ' V hite batiste bodice with waistcoat fronts extended in points over the hips.
 While the sleeves are of tailored shirt" shape there is a high faring collar, merging with a pair of short I~ S- fronts. Visualize with fancy's eyes this frock worn with a soft crowned, rolling brimmed, untrimmed black velvet hat of moderate size. Is not sathe ensemble a fetching one? But it is not more so than a costume seen the other morning at the Meadow Club, Southampton. The day was hot and everybody looked uncomfortable save brown-eyed girl in blue and white
 Plain blue linen broadly banded a < perfectly straight skirt in blue dotted white batiste and 8 plain white batiste collar-much wider than an Eton lad s that was turned back f1atly from the neck of a little coatee in blue linen, tuttoning straight from throat to waist. There are seamless dartless fronts loosely drawn up from the sides under a white buckle and wrinkled at n will part way over the hips.
 .. Sleeves. cut in one piece with the \ Jacket, fell loosely upon the arms from the elbow and, although band of white batiste peeped from below their ' edges no one supposed the jacket con- cealed a blouse. The coatee was also a bodice.
 Double Ruffles For the Tall Girl.
 By this time nearly every girl < whose early summer wardrobe in- : cluded frock in white lace or em- broidered batiste has silk coatee to wear with it. If the skirt. in batiste is ultra chic it is trimmed with double ruffles, the upper one in embroidery. overlapping one in plain batiste. These ruffles are not in tiers, but are applied half, way down the hips, midway of the hips and the knees, and between the knees and the ankles, showing the hem of the skirt.
 This treatment makes a :. series of breaks between the waist and the feet which delights the girl who imagines that she is too tall yet would not look an ounce less slender. Never as yet has the fatly placed ruffle made any figure look bulky. With one of these double ruffle trimmed batiste skirts is worn a coatee in orchid taffeta, self-tone embroidered motifs are on the flaring elbows of its narrow sleeves and on the square corners of it's loose back, which falls over high girdle hold , ing in the fulness of the sides and fronts, which stop at the waist line.