The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-06-03
Summer Fabrics
Are Fascinating

The combinations Of strong colors
with patches and frills and founces
Of white organdie are being wonder
fully done. Organdie in pure white
is used with ginghams, with calicoes,
with chintzes, with sateens, with
swiss with crepes, with other or
candies, with siIks-yes, with every
fabric known to the summer ward
robe. White organdie in some form
or another is almost a necessity, and
there is this to be said for IL; when 1t
is used, that dress wherein 1t Is In
corporated is bound to be success,
for the crispness of the transparent
white stuff is so becoming that II
cannot be rivaled by any other ma
terial or trimming.
In some cases bits of white lace are
combined with the white organdie to
make the trimming more notable. but
the lace is fine and narrow. Filet
has gone out Of fashion more or less
perhaps because it was so consistent
ly overdone-and in its place we have
the real bits of valenciennes, the en-
broidered swiss trimmings. The lat
ter embroideries are coming along in
colors made to match the tones of the
materials, and these are as good look
ing as the spring dyed laces have been,
with a character all their own to
make them notable. The cream-col-
ored swiss embroideries are extreme
ly good looking when used on ging-
ham and organdie dresses for collars
or f1chus, or sometimes just for tiny
turned-back edgings.
The heavier silks and the silk
jerseys in different sorts of weaves
are very much to be desired for sum-
mer costumes that have to be sub
jected to more or less Of hard wear.
After all, the lighter materials must
be most delicately worn and treated,
If they are to retain for any time the
crispness which makes them what they
are. But the loosely woven and creepy
silks are the things that can be worn
and worn and still hang on to the
quality that was with them when they
were created. For this reason, If for
no other, they are highly interesting
additions to the summer things for
country and town wear. Then, they
are cool to wear and N most instances
they can be washed, so that they COM
bine many attributes in one.
The Winsome Bingham Dress.
A gingham dress that is much adj
mired daily has little underskirt of
the ubiquitous organdie and little
yoke with quantity pulled white or
candle sleeves. Then, at the places
where the gingham meets the organ
die there are bookings with bindings
of black cotton braid. 1t makes a
little picture dress most becoming to
some types of women, and in its SIM
plicity it has everything to recon-
mend it.
Another gingham frock has plain
turned-back collar of the embroidered
swiss. Then the tiny, short sleeves
have a narrow turned-back edging of
the same trimming. The gingham is
in cool green and white checks and
ID VI OSCp du
lait tone that combines so nicely with
the shades of green. The collar is
rounded and the simplest sort of
narrow black velvet ribbon bow is
poised under the chin.
An organdie frock is made of a
shade of yellow termed maize. 1t is
deep lustrous tone. Its trimming
is made of simple pufings Of white
organdie not more than an inch and
a half wide when finished. They edge
the low and rounded neckline; they
form two rows on the short, tightly
fitting sleeves, and they run around
the skirt in two rows. The bodice of
this frock is short wasted and slight
Iy bloused and the skirt is quite, full
after the accepted manner of the sum-
mer organizes.