Evening star., 1922-06-11

| pIouSeS' ana crepe georgette, ribbed
/ silk. crepe de chine and heavy linen or
! cotton lace make up the formal blouse.
The launching Of the white muslin
! Shirt waist with its fine lingerie collar.
| cuffs and front friIls. places this we'll
established American garment IN the
/ forefront Of fashion. 1t usually takes
! or colored. They run it TO the hips,
| the skirt. except among the French.
| who are making it of organdie, white
| or colored. They run il to the hps
| where it is fastened at each side with
! buttons. Possibly it has a five-jnch
sash that ties in the middle of the back
Women VINO have lightweight tai
lored suits and who prefer to keep on
/ their jackets may continue to wear the
white lingerie blouse or the tailored
crepe de chine kind, but women who
want to take off the jackets should
adopt the kind of blouse that is made
for the separate skirt
| There is no doubt that the fashion
| for the short jacket which has nothing
to do with suit or skirt has brought
about a revival of the self-selected three
| piece costume This is an admirable
| trick for the summer
One can use d skirt of linen. of cloth
| or wool with any kind of blouse in the
house, in the street and for sports and
give it a touch of Formally by putting
a cape or short jacket over it
We get this direct from the French
this season. but it has been a familiar
one to all of us in other years Once
the French stigmatized it as patch
work. Today they give it their verdict
of approval.
The danger of this scheme Of dress
ing lies in the taste of the Individual,
and the recklessness of rapid dressing,
which is a national trait.
IT Is evident that this manner of
dressing is to be admitted into the
best society this season from the
cleverness shown in devising new
blouses and the enthusiasm with
which the shops sell them Wherever
well dressed women have fore gather
ed. one sees the result of this work,
and one hears more gossip about the
variety of blouses than for several
years.
A young girl created enthusiasm
by wearing a crepe georgette blouse
which had a lace panel down the
front that hung longer than the back.
1t was round in the neck, it had full
sleeves that Were left open at the
back but the front was held down
to the wrist by a deep, tight cuff of
the lace This was worn with a
biege crepe de chine skirt, plain
skirt with slight gathers across the
hips and back.
Another young woman wears an
almond green georgette crepe with
lattice work trimming of the ma
terial, arranged in the fashion to
which France paid so much attention
last summer. This lattice work is
made from strips of the fabric. 1t
forms a shallow yoke. leaving the
neck bare; it also edges the sleeves
and the f1aring hem. There is
gfrdle of green ribbon tied in a loose
bow in the front
Still another blouse of the kind that
turns the skirt into a costume is of
white crepe de chine with an en-
broidery design of the material.
| There are two novelties in this
blouse, both of which are worth
copying. One is the full peplum
gathered to a thick cord that goes
about the hips, which finishes the
upper part of blouse. The other nov
city is the use of narrow picot rib
bon which is used across the
shoulders to end as a cravat and
about the wrists as a way of holding
down the wide sleeves.
X X X X
THIS particular + treatment Of the
l neck should not pass with merely
incidental opserv alton. 1t is really