The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-06-02


with patches and frills and hounces
OF white organdie are being wonder
tully done. Organdie In pure white
Is used with ginghams, with calicoes,
with chintzes, with sateens, with
SWISS with Crepes with other or
CANDIES, with silks-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 It; when It
is used, that dress wherein II is in
! corporated is bound to be success,
! for the crispness of the transparent
white stuff is so becoming that It
cannot be rlvaled by any other ma
terial or trimming.
In some cases bits of white lace are
combined with the white organdle to
make the trimming more notable, but
the lace is fine and narrow. Fllet
has gone out Of fashion more or less
perhaps because 1t was so consistent.
ly overdone-and in It's place we have
the real bits Of valenciennes, the em4
broidered swiss trimmings. The lat
colors made to match the tones Of the
materials, and these are as good look
ing as the spring dyed laces have been.
with character all their own to
make them notable. The cream-col.
ored swiss embroideries are extreme
~ good looking when used on glng-
ham and Organdie dresses for collars
or fchus, 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, |
II they are to retain for any time the !
crispness which makes them what they |
are. But the loosely woven and crepy !
sllks 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
are cool to wear and N most instances
they can be washed, so that they com.
Dine many attributes in one.
The Winsome Gingham Dress.
gingham dress that Is much az
mired daily has little underskirt of
the ubiquitous Organdie and a little
yoke with quantity puffed white or
candle sleeves. Then. at the places
where the gingham meets the organ,
die there are bookings with bindings
Of black cotton braid. It makes a
little picture dress most becoming to
some types of women, and in its sim.
plicity 1t has everything to recon-
mend It,
Another gingham frOck has a plain
urned-back collar of the embroidered
'Wiss. Then the tiny, short sleeves
lave a narrow turned-back edging of
he same trimming. The gingham is
n cool green and white checks and
he trimming is of that deep cafe au
ait tone that combines so nicely with
he shades of green. The collar IS
ounded and the simplest sort of
narrow black velvet ribbon bow is
'olsed under the chin.
An Organdie frock is made of n
hade Of yellow termed maize. It is
deep lustrous tone. It's trimming
made of simple pufIings of white
rgandie not more than an inch and
half wide when finished. They edge
ne low and rounded neckIine; they
orm two rows on the short, tightly.
tting sleeves, and they run around
he skirt in two rows. The bodice Of
his frock is short wasted and slight. 4
: bloused and the skirt is quite full d
fter the accepted manner of the sum,
lGg organdies. q