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Show STYLES MUCH MORE SIMPLE Richness of Attire That Has Marked Pa6t Seasons Has Been Considerably Con-siderably Modified. This year the girl who is trying to adjust the balance between a self-respecting self-respecting smartness of attire and a minute income has everything on her side. Compared with last year's richness rich-ness and eccentricity, which made the task more than puzzling to the home dressmaker, there is a notable revival of the severely simple. Hats with hardly any trimming at all, braid and buttons in lieu of embroideries, em-broideries, simply cut dresses of one color only, and the plainest of coats and skirts, are a few of the sweeping changes in store for us. There is very little doubt that the majority of women will welcome the new order of things. Foremost among the revivals of the winter is the return to favor of our old friend, the blouse, which suffered a period of" almost total eclipse during the summer, when the all conquering "little frock" swept everything before it. It comes back absolutely in its earliest and most elementary form. The shirtwaist was the shape in which the blouse was first made known to us, if one excludes the old Garibaldi, and this year it will reign again in all its trim simplicity. With the shirt blouse comes another old friend that has been long neglected. neglect-ed. The smartest and most fashionable fashion-able belt for the coming season will be made of plain patent leather, fastened fas-tened by the simplest and most unassuming unas-suming of buckles. |