The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-08-09

Have all been emvlated
BY fashion in her buds.
NEW YORK, August 6.-Madame
La Mode has a perfect passion this
summer for masquerading in rural
raiment and adapting to her perverse
purposes all the quaint and print
tive sartorial devices of the peasan-
try. In reckless manner she has
shown that one touch of bodice
makes princess and peasant kin. In
fact this comic opera girdie of laced
black velvet may be said to have
istruek note of equality by being
half way of peeress and also half
way of peasant with equally pleas
ling results. Not being confined TO
1.-THE upper. lower or middle classes ex-
jclusively it has confined the middle
of all
Many last summers frock has
ibeen freshened up to 1915 standards
lby simply adding the peasant girdle
iOT UOuICc Will itS coiu VI liuuoh
laces.
Then there is the popular smock
like the gardner and Greta the gard
lner's girl wear when they go weed
ling, sowing and spading. 10 say moth
ling OF the wide brimmed floppy gar
den hats of loose woven straw that
! hoo m
ple heads to perch on her own frivo
lous pate.
Copying everything in the apron
line from the gay little inconsequen
itial affair affected by the lady's
maid and the femme de chambre up
Ito the more durable models displayed
! by the kitchen queen and presiding
goddess of the laundry tubs she has
converted them by grace of sheer
fabrics and thread-like laees into eX-
quisite finishing touches on her
jsmart summer frocks.
| The filmy fichu shrouding her
snowy bosom was inspired by the
| kegchief of the simple dairy maid
and to such extremes is her peEehant
for all things primitive taking her
| that they have even affected her eat
ling and sleeping She insists on TAX
ling her food off the crude haad
lpainted peasant wares of Brittany
Bulgaria or the Black Forrest while
| t,i, 10 IF
| bleached peasant weaves stunningly
monogranmed. For after all she
jprides herself as really getting next
to nature and being truly of the peo-
/ pie in her present peasant modes AMI
yet though she wears an apron ii IS
i ever OF the finest lace and hand EN-
unbleached muslin and drape hen
windows in cheeseeloth and lay her
| table with coarse linen in natural
/ shade they are well eNqusiteis
stitched and embroidered and mono
grammed in the height of art and ar
itistry. Dame fashion only plays 1T
being primitive.
Patch pockets aren't the only patch
ON this seasons yagaries of apparel
Indeed the whole scheme of sue
cessful toilette seems to be patchy.
Three and even four different mate
rials and colors often go to make up
single frock and the more the MGR
jackets OF plain color worn over .
! bodice of striped material whose
sleeves and front are of a transpar-
ent white or ecrue chiffon with the
striped skirt belted and banded with
| silk are the most prevalent phase oi
htse versatile costumes. Some OF
them live up more closely to the
patch idea by having a comhina
/ ton of dotted silk trimmed in strip
cd organdie with plain transparent
chiffon sleeves. a plain silken jack t
effect and a belt and garnishmen;s
| OF beadwork. Patchwork seems d
kindly term to designate some of
III utSt tItdttpnS. 4 dub tAstAi SituDHs
mess comes nearer to the yorities.
It's been a neck and neck race ali
summer between the stripes and the
dots Zebra girls will soon be turn
ing dotty, however, as stripes arc
more dashing and noticeable and
therefore YOU tire of them more
easily than OF the more conservative
| little dot. Combining the stripes aud
the dots result startingly remiB-
iscent OF words aud music" et-
feet TO be sure this striking cos
tune OF note is a bit loud, but i
strikes she right keynote OF the mo-
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