The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
FASHlONDOM
BY MRS. KINGSLEY.

lIS Nl T is a curious season as regards
 color schemes. Possibly they lA may be classified into suEt-
 mary that will help those who are now choosing clothes.
 If one wants splash of color it should be barbaric; if one wants gown in color it should be subdued. Brilliant reds, blues, purples and yell lows are avoided in large pieces, but they are used singly or mingled when belt or cuffs or collar are required on frock in neutral tone.
 Yellow in strong Chinese shade seems to be the only brilliant color that has been adopted for suits and evening gowns, but when it is chosen for the former it is for country usage, and when for the latter it is usually made in a daring frock with amber tulle and worn with dull gold slippers, and usually there is touch of Chinese blue somewhere, possibly given by jewelry instead of fabric.
 There are not many of these brilliant yellow evening gowns, and only rare few for the afternoon, but the yellow suits in Jersey cloth, North Carolina homespun and crepe de chine are fn- creasing in fashion. It is strange that the latter fabric should be taken up for country and sport wear, but the good weaves of it have been found ad- mirable for summer frocks; and, in a season of much fullness and drapcry one searches the shops for materials that are pliable and graceful.
 Even women with white hair are wearing soft taffeta in gray-bIue trimed with pink roses. The very presence of gray hair suggests these tones in order to make one look more than ever like the women of Louis AV.'s reign. Y
 The styles of Louis XIV. are decided " allur1ng, although they are intended TOT the evening and do not satisfy the demandS of the daytime. The styles >of Louis Phllipe are rarely attractive ana easily slip into awkwardness and positive ugliness.
 Riding clothes for summer wear are mostly of an informal type, and good looking habits of linen are shown in both s1de-saddle and cross-saddle mod els. The light weight wool habits in tan and 1n black and white check are liked. too, A model seen here a few days since was of linen and made with the new flare coat. The same model can be made in light weight wooden material.
 The outstanding three-tier skirt is particularly alluring, each volant ris- ing higher at the one side, and rather suggesting the material has been casu- ally swirled round the figure An effec- tive black tulle demi-toilette arranged after this manner had the fussiness of each hounce accentuated by ruche of the same, while the bodice was mount ed over cloth of silver and was drawn under deep shaped belt of jet and sil- yer embroidery.
 Another supremely attractive even ing toilette was black tulle, the hem of the plain, full skirt hand embroid- cred in tapering design with jet beads and bugles and mounted over ivory charmeuse. A corsage of the tulle, again mounted over satin, was arranged rather like a Greek peplum, the shoulders held together by jet cabochon and leaving what can only be described asa high oval-shaped decolletage, this being completed by long, graceful and transparent wing sleeves of the tulle, the deepish point weighted with a tassel. Nor was that all, the final and clinching touch oc- curing in a long, narrow train of ivory satin embossed with a bold design of black velvet