Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-06-18


with printed designs trimmed with
pointed scallOps exactly like the rlc-rac
braid and made of organdie. They are
easy enough to make by stitching on
the sewing machine in the pointed,
zigzag way and using them as an
edge for sashes, SUPPLIES and sleeve
trimmings.
We all know the vogue organdie has
had for two seasons now, vogue only
slightly abated this summer. The
crisp loneliness of organdie and its
enhancing color make 1t always de-
sirable, but the lovely dotted swiss
cloth and fine nets are crOwding 1t out
of first rank this year. One still sees
lovely organdie frOcks with frills and
tucks in plenty, and l have recently
found a fashion of draping the thin
sheer Organdie over a slip of coarse
white net which gives a most unusual
and attractive effect. When these
net slips are used they are fashioned
on the long princess lines or caught
In at the waist like camisole.
Deep flounces of lace are added along
the bottom Of the skirt, just as one
would trim a petticoat. In nearly
every instance where the net is thus
used the outside skirt is left untucked
and plain except for deep hem and
perhaps a cluster of double frills at
the top. Let us not forget the frills
this summer, for never was there
time when ruffles were so much worn.
Everything is done with them and
they trim everything. Knife plated
and hung at the sides of skirt, or
gathered and placed one after the
other upside down on skirts, they are
employed lavishly. OF course this
fashion has been simplitied for the
home dressmaker, for 1t is possible
to buy all such by the yard, ready to
sew right into place all hemmed and
befrilled.
AS to the dotted swiss-the makers
Of dresses have successfully combined
it with net of fine mesh and soft, mar
row valenciennes lace. One of the
most charming summer dresses of this
material is made of cream colored
swiss with the simplest straight lines
revealed in a round skirt with four
inch hem. The waist, or shirtwaist
plainness, has deep wide fichu of
cream net and valencienneS lace,
crossing after the Marie Antoinette
fashion in front and extending in
loose, overlapping loops In the back,
where it reaches almost to the hem.
The sleeves are longer than the bebe
sleeves the French send us and stop
just at the elbow. The colOred swiss
is much in demand-the soft yellows,
blues and pinks, and they, too, combine
successfully with puffs of net and the
old-fashioned footing we have not used
in many years.
AS to the materials used for elabo
rate occasions such as club dances,
house party dinners and garden par
ties, net is in the lead. In fact the
net dress is having a revival. 1t is
so entrancingly lovely that every wom-
an will hail 1t with Joy. The colored
flouncings with wide, spraWling flow
ers are extensively used. / recall a
particularly pleasing dinner frock Of
sky blue net flowers over a petticoat
of blue which deepened the color and
lent tone to the big white roses sprawl
ing along the edge of the tlounce. The
skirt was, in reality series of three
flounces placed one above the other.
and the bodice was a repetition Of
the fOuncing clevcrly placed in up
and down effect to give the desired long
lines. A wide tulle sash finished the
waist and fuffed out soft bow at
one side. The sleeves opened mt the
shoulders to show the arm and hung
in drapery of the flOuncing and tulle
to form q sort of underneath sleeve.
Such n demand there seems to be
for these colored nets that edges of
colored nets are added to the white
flouncings.