Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-08-01
The TuniC, Cascade and the
Basque Are Orders of
the Season.
THERE'S VOGUE FOR M0HAIR
Black Very Much In Evidence, often
in the Least Expected Places
New Rival for Linen for the
Heavier Summer Costumes.


clared themselves already. The
tunfc, the basque, the cascade. the
wider skirt and the cape in one form
or another are all there.
Black is very much in evidence.
often in the least expected places.
For instance, DrecoIl shows a tunic
dress, mohair and worsted, of a grape
purple, with about four inches of a
black satin tunic showing beneath
The tunic is going to be worn not a
little in the fall, notwithstanding the
fact that there are so many advance
summer editions of 1t.
jimmy shows a tunic dress of navy
blue cashmere, in which the tunic is
double; both tunic edges and the
underskirt are trimmed with bands
of vertically tucked taffeta a navy
blue liberty satin sash is then brought
about the waist twice to form a high
girdle, then tied low behind in low
softly hanging loops.
Mohair to Be Popular
Good things to notice about these
creations are that mohair promises to
be one of the materials of the autumn
hour, that the fancy for vertical tuck
ing is to be continued and that sashes
are going to be worn with the bows
very sofas opposed to the wired
bows of last season.
And the basque-what Of that? VIII
1t really get a hold upon US? We do
not claim the gift of prophecy for our
selves, but the idea certainly seems to
have taken a Arm grip upon the i'm
aginations that design for us. Bernard
is exhibiting a model of ale brown
worsted mohair
Now when we speak of the arrival
of basques we do not mean that our
artists put upon patient wOmankind
the unadulterated, be-buttOned. care
fully outlining affairs that crystallized
the charms of grandmother The mod
ern basque barely carries its own
message. Bernard's design shows the
fairly tight waist and the narrow
sleeve, but does not flare over the
hand as of old It is finished by a
cuff of stiff brown satin with pointed
edges. The waist line of the basque is
concealed by means of the same sash
effect that jimmy uses achieving a
girdle in the front. The back, how
ever, slopes into a fishtail. over which
the sash is tied far down and into the
same soft bows.
A New Rival for Linen.
mer materials may still be worn, for
what may be called an advance fall
costume. a new material has been
created to take the place of linen; 1t
is a corded cotton. and Cheruit has
made a tunic dress of it in white.
jimmy comes to the front again, with
a cascade dress of dark blue pussy
willow silk. with a Mexican Aztec de-
signify the way. silk and design both
the creations of an American house.
Everyone knows what the cascade
is-the fat. soft falling side pannier
on the dress, coming to a point and
finishing with some such ornament as
a tassel.
A Russian peasant blouse is worn
over this cascade skirt This is a
style, which, like the basque, is pc
culiarly becoming to the slender.
Some Of these Russian blOuses, by the
way, fasten down the back; all We
have to say about it is that We
breathe a prayer TO the powers that
be to keep said notion dark in its
dungeon.
AS for capes, they are as settled a
thing as If they had already outworn
a season. They are being shown in
many materials A new cloth made
Of chutedo is the last variation on the
corduroy idea, the next to the last two
being the popular goIfne and duvene;
they are all glorified corduroys. This
last though chutedo is especially nice;
the stripes are spaced more widely
than in the other two, and there is a
plush stripe running between them.
Black and White.
A very pretty cape has been made
of this material. narrow at the Shout
ders and widening cascade-lke miles
and miles and miles at the sides. For
a threefold reason the capes are most
" cut at the sides to let the hands
and arms come through, first Of all to
facilitate the cascade effect aud TO in
sure a warm we'll hanging fl mt. The
front paunier in almost ever case is
strapped behind under the cloak 4
promise Of fur as a trimming is limited
at in this cape. as it has an oval
shaped collar draping the back
Another cape Of brown and Thite
WOODEN check about three-quarters OF
an inch square has the odd and rather
Iikable audacity to scar a belt square
across the front. This Is another Che
ruit model
And the hat the hat! It promises
to be neither small nor large.
Blas& velvet is again bang favored;
also the long. narrow streaming. mar
row bird-tails Of various sorts.
Another hat-quite small-is a