Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-20

underside of which is dyed to dark blue with the crown of a really superb velvet ribbon show ing lowered design in rich colors and with a girdle and bag of the same the bag being a very simple one drawn up by means of narrow ribbon strings and weighted with tassel to give it shape. "l
 What are known as Baskt influences also are good and we are having some really wonderful color effects. Like many another beautiful thing the Baskt idea always is easily travestied The colors as they are handled by great master are rich and superb. if a little aggressive they still are beautiful. In the hands of many of his i,nitators they simply garrish Let us hope that they will not be initiated by the minimizing and the untrained. They require skill, they quire art in their handling, it is only when they are rightly used that they mean charm. An evening coat of white silk with striped border of green, red, indigo blue and gold sounds extreme, but as it was handled by faithful follower of the master it was simply superb. Of rich Oriental coloring undoubtedly there will be much if it is used in bits and without overdoing all will be well, danger lies in excess and excess is runous in matters of dress it is in the serious affairs of life
 Practical, useful costumes are always needed The gown of plaid and plain material shown here makes an excellent example of what we made of gabardine of blue and white for the plaid and plain white for the skirt and sleeves and collar It is very handsome costume and at the same time very useful costume while it suggests one of the really important They hil place that nothing else quite takes but there is a demand for the gown that can be worn upon the street and such effects as these are successful in bringing about a costume ideal for the purpose. This one, for example, could be copied in serge with silk or in plaid serge with plain or in plaid taffeta with plain to make a more practical costume than the dainty blue and white and it could be copied in pongee for the summer costume, but in whatever material it is shown the lines will eemain, and it is the lines which make the success of any garment. Really 1t is skirt with an over portion. It is not redingote, yet the combination of the blouse and skirt suggest the redngote idea. The few buttons of generous size and of great beauty make another feature of the season.
 Already the Southern resorts have emphasized the readiness with which the ribbon trimming has been accepted. With the coming of the summer, we may look for lingerie gowns exten- sively ribbon trimmed for ribbon sashes, for ribbon garnitures and ribbon utilized in every known way.
 Accessories that suggest what we are apt to call "od timey" effects are greatly in demand and little punches of quaint flowers are largely nsed as finish for girdes and for trimming for bodices, for what nots Posies are delightfully."- suggestive ot ths old time garden and the nearer one comes to the effect of the flowers that might be gathered thcrefrom, the nearer she will be
 Muslin anl chiffon lend themselves; to the Eugenie period with exceptional success The white frock shown here is of organdie and the material as well as the style emphasizes the period. 1t is designed for the dabutante and is worn with wide sash held by single rose. The, picture tells the story of its style and of its charm. The fchu drapes the shoulders most gracefully and bccomingly and fchus are being largely exploited but let all but tke very young and the confessedy old beware. nraped over shoulderssoo young that they cannot bc made to look old, they are real delight. TAe hchi