Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-27
EVERYTHING that .ugsests the

EVERYTHING that suggeSt1 Ine
MILDLY idea is certain to Ind a
- welcome from the small boy and
here is a smart little suit that can be
made as it is here with white blouse and
colored trousers and trimming or OF all
white or all color. As a design for the
small boys, it is OF course adapted especi-
ally to washable fabrics, but that list
includes galatea, light weight eponge,
linen and linene, ginghams and various
other figured, fabrics while for summer
wear, the blouse Of tub silk is liked over
trousers of linen, galatea or piquk. II
preferred, slashes can be cut and belt
passed through the openings and the
sleeves can be made long, but for the
simple little summer suit, the loose
blouse is apt to be preferred. The
pocket serves the double purpose OF CON
venience and srnartness for pockets this
season are really essential.
CUSPENDER effects are exceedingly
smart and are so generally be-
- coming to the younger girls that
they are meeting with ready response.
The frock shown here is made OF rose
colored foulard with small white dot
and the blouse is Of crepe de chine with
dainty lace on the collar. It makes
charming combination and the frock is
one of the all round useful sort that girls
find 30 welcome. The skirt is perfectly
straight, shirred to form its own girdle. /
therefore it makes good model for any
thin material and it is perfectly adapted
to flouncing or to bordered silk or to bor-
dered materials of any sort. The blouse
IS quite plain, but with the new sleeves
that are shirred at the wrists and with
becoming frills that fall over the hands.
Since this is essentially a season OF silks
and of cotton, foulard, light weight tat
feta, the lovely cotton crepes and cotton
voiles suggest themselves as especially
appropriate for immediate wear. 1t one
is looking ahead to the future, taffeta Is
to be commended, silk and wool wolfe
would be charming or silk and wool crepe
and both these materials are to be found
in really a fascinating variety OF colors..
The suspenders can be made to match
the skirt or can be made Of ribbon.
For the 16 year size will be required
AZ yds. of material 81 in. wide, 81
yds. ;36, 8 yds. a. for the skirt and
suspenders and for the blouse, ~
yds. So, I yd. of insertion, ~ yds. Of
edging.
fashions are 50 eminently pic
r. turesque this season that there
should be most interesting out
look and the resorts should present an
attractive showing. If only we could
teach the lesson Of suitability, we might
be assured that such would be fact,
but unfortunately good taste is by no
means general characteristic andf
already one has seen extraordinary
adaptations of prevailing styles. 1t
would be supposed that it would be well
and generally understood that to be
we'll dressed, is to be suitably dressed
for that statement belongs fairly among
the axioms of fashion, but alas and alack,
it is by no means well needed. Silk
sweaters and satin sports coats are and
the like are exploited here in old Gotham
on every turn. A certain portion Of the
community finds them so alluring that
they are being worn upon the streets in
spite Of the fact that every woman must
know that they are designed for the out
of-door life, for the links, the tennis
court, the mountain walk and for the
stroll along the beach, but surely never
for the city streets.