The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-13
ODE GIVE EARLY HIM OF FALL.
Trouble in Store for Designers if Pas
sion for Flounces and Billowy
Folds Outlasts the Warm DAYS

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material in one of the stripe colors Is
much liked. and particularly pretty
things are done with white taffeta In
combination with taffeta in white and
delicate color. Bodices in awning
stripe taffeta or radium. with collars
and cuffs of organdy or batiste are
, used with some OF the best looking
white serge or white gabardine suits.
and the same variety Of stripe in chif-
fon makes clever little blouses for
wear with taffeta suits in the color
OF the stripe.
h silk suit Is becoming ubiquitous
as the weather grows warmer, and
the models range from the simplest to
the most elaborate. No: elaborate Is
hardly the word. for some Of the most
formal of the silk costumes are not
elaborate. Their trimming IL very
likely to be merely In the shape Of
self folds or frills or ruches or cords,
with perhaps a very little embroidery.
usually in self color, and II is to the
quality OF the material and the cut of
coat and skirt hat the suggestion of
elegance Is entrusted.
Innumerable changes are rung upon
the bolero, and many coat frocks are
made with simulated bolero
ment and worn In place of three
piece costumes. There are numerous
pep;um coats too. jaunty little affairs
nipped in at the waist line and fin
ished below that line by short. very
full peplum frills, standing out au-
daciously over the hips. or by pep.
lums a little longer and less agrees
Siya And for thao, 70 x.hA., a.,
bolero seems too youthful and the
short peplum too extreme there arc
longer coats. some Of them reaching
to the Knees and most Of them flaring
gradually below a waist curve at least
slightly defined.
S~traighter coats appear too, but not
often in the long coat models. and
there are some compromise models.
combining short bolero fronts with
long straight coattail backs, which can
be recommended to many women I'M
able to wear the all around bolero.
The knee length coats, either closed
all the way up h front or cut away
below the waist and fiaring very
widely at the sides are being featured
In advance autumn suits. but, as has
been said before, that is guesswork,
though models of this type are evi.
IDENTIFY TO be worn this summer in
silk suits and in taffeta coats for wear
over thin frocks.
An extraordinarily good looking
coat OF this sort in soft white taft
feta with clever collar and cuffs of
black velvet was made by one Fifth
avenue dressmaker To be worn at
Newport over sheer white frocks.
Much is being done with white taft
feta. by the way. White in all ma
terials is having n decided vogue and
a good white taffeta has much to
recommend 1t, soiling less readily than
other white silks. having the crispness
essential to fashionable fare and frill
and looking cool and fresh on the
hottest day.
Some charming three piece costumes
are made up in white taffeta and
wh.te chiffon cloth or silk wolfe, or
organdy or lace. the lower part of the
very wide skirts and the coquettish
little coats in the silk. while most Of
the bodice and skirt top is Of the
thinner material.
Evening frocks OF white tafYeta are
liked too n are usually fashioned on
the fitted bodice, full skirt drop
shoulder lines, to which taffeta seems
peculiarly adapted. One such frock.
pictured among our small cuts was de-
lightfully simple and effective, with
its full skirt caught up just a trife
at the left front to show a few mar
row lace frills and held by a pearl
ornament. and its fitted pointed bodice
cut straight across the chest and out
over the arms and held on the
shoulders by pearl bands running down
the middle Of lace bands. This bodice
has a clever note in the little straps
cut in one with the front point and
running down over the skirt shirring
on the hips.
Not all of the evening bodices are
fitted snugly. however. One may still
have a comfortably loose round waist !