Show SPRING STYLES ON VIEW TODAY Millinery and Dress Openings Will Take Place Long Ahead of Easter SOME OF THE NEW THINGS fiGURES FIGURES ORDERED ALL TO BE SLENDER The old orthodox idea that the Easter sunshine lone alone brought out the Easter bonnet is rapidly being relegated ted to the rear wIth other Ideas of its ilk And although Easter Sunday is yet off its adjunct the Easter bonnet wIll make its appearance sin singly gly bly and collectively this coming week Already the wares are being arrayed In the shops and the buyer is enjoying a late beauty sleep this morning preparatory to the try trying trying ing ordeal of today the milliners and their assistants are arranging such sucha a dazzling display as shall serve to loosen the strings on even Fathers Jock pocket t book Women Must Train Down Before taking up in detail the various arious articles which will be of paramount im importance importance this spring It would be well to the large just what Dame Fashion will require of those who fol follow follow low her hel lead during th the opening season The first and apparently the most startling thing is that women must be thinner The Dressmakers Association tion of AmerIca has already decreed that superfluity belongs alone to the male sex And while man may acquire sufficIent avoirdupois to Increase his waist measure till tiJI he resembles a hogs hogshead hogshead head woman must overcome all tend tendencies tendencies toward even fat Consequently a series of bulletins reading somewhat on this order might be i before one starts out to purchase the where wherewithal wherewithal withal to clothe this too human flesh Waists will be more slender this year Ulan than last No double chins wIll be Permitted Ankles must be dainty and feet small Hands and wrists mu must be pretty As to Waists Feet and Ankles There are few things in the realms of fashion which wIll of necessity be emphasized emphasize T The e waist line the foot and ankles and the wrists will be more morein moreIn in evidence than ever before The waist waistline waistline line takes its Importance from the fact that all the jackets of the sprIng suits except the pony coat are exceed exceedIngly exceedIngly short and fortunate indeed Is she whose waist is slender enough to call definite and admIrIng attention to the shortness of the coat The skirts are from one and inches to three inches from the ground thus giving ample room for the modest display of ofa ofa a dainty foot or ankle And then the sleeves are so short as to require long gloves entirely for street wear and hands bands for the house In Indeed Indeed deed there would seem to be no provi provision provision sion for the woman who is averse to short sleeves unless she either is clever enough to devise some new thing or individual enough to def defy Dame Fashion Skirts to Be Circular The skirts are to be cut circular although compromises are seen in the circular gored skirts which holds Its shape better than the long sweeping bias of the side which Is sure to sag no matter how made The circular pleated skirt will also be popular popular lar an and has the distinct advantage of keeping its Ito shape Belts BelLe are of the same color as the suits no matter of what material but are preferably iden identified Identified with the skirt in some fashion or another As to color despite the wealth seen last year the tints In gowns have dwindled to two This sounds impossible Impossible sible but it Is very near the literal The two favored by are gray and blue Of course there are many of these to chose from the grays rang ranging lug ing from London smoke to the palest of pearl and the blues from a dark mate materIal matena rIal na verging on black to the of baby blues and palest of Alice blues The two colors are combined advantageously advantageously in many designs and the com coin combinations always popular were never so 30 effective it would seem as they are this season White for the Summer Of course white will predominate for forthe the summer and the magic effects in black and white will be as popular as ever but for the Immediate future pale gra gray and light Alice Allce blue will be the ultra of ultras In the black and white effects the gowns are of the more dab elaborate orate type such as are worn for very few springtime affairs here but which are the wonder of all beholders when they do appear Black velvet and white lace black lace ace and white chiffon black tucked chiffon over white silk and black chiffon broadcloth with white silk and reveres are among the more striking effects As a rule however the spring cos costumes costumes are much plainer than those im imported imported ported for the autumn time us as the summer gown in all its glory so soon replaces the spring clothing Then too the really swell events in society come about the time the weather is on its best behavior and thin gowns pre predominate predominate dominate Plaids of All Kinds One Oue notable departure in fabrics is the Plaid These are of such infinite variety they range from the small invisible check to squares two of which it is said will make a skirt These pl plaids ids are made up In the popular princess style and are also seen in the princess skirt fitted to well above the waist line and added to by the short COli coat t above it Still another style in which the plaid is seen is the tho skirt of the plaid mate material material rial and the coat of either a handsome cloth of solid color or a silk which shows one of the shades in the plaid Hats of All Colors But however modest and demure the gown ml be as to its color there will willbe willbe be no limit to the colors seen in the hats All the colors of the rainbow and two more marco wIll about des describe ribe some of the hats Which are arc of the fete de fleur order In general the tendency is toward moie elaborateness each year and this y year ar Is surely no exception exception tion Masses of flowers of all kinds found in the gardens of the grandmothers with the addition of a few touches touched of moss from the hill bill hillsIdes sIdes a full fpH grown oW wild rose bush and anda a few trifles in the way o sis is hot at all an uncommon combInation Few of the long and extremely ugly drapes are seen although the hats have not fully freed themselves from this as yet Instead however several show a trimming of veils In artistic folds Another new idea which is so simple one wonders why we have not all thought ot of It Is to have the ban bandeaux bandeaux deaux covered with a twist of tulle or maUne mahine the identIcal shade of the hair This means the adapting of almost any hat to the face of the wearer for all know that Dame Nature places as asa asa a rule that shade ne next t the skin which is to it Titus a fold of pale gray tulle on the bandeaux of a hat may make mako or mar its selling seIling qualities While on the tLe subject of veils and their uses it would be wen well to state that the present tendency to fluffiness in the hair Is tending to do away avay with the face veil as well and only the de demure demure mure woman whose locks are to be laid In smooth lines will wear veils after the winds of March have sub subsided sided Lingerie on Hats The lingerie hats so much affected last year are still to the front being made of the really washable crowns of handsome embroidery or of rows and rows of Val lace stitched together and given a touch of individuality with witha a tiny bunch of black velvet baby rib ribbon ribbon bon These are to be worn by young oung girls only but the others are limited to no particular age the same shapes being considered suitable for girls and their grandmothers A few really imported hats are found among them being a hat flat and round of Neapolitan braid absolutely absolutely plaIn on the top and with a abroad abroad broad band ot of black velvet encircling the crown Beneath the brim at one side is a group of dark green een plumes falling faIling almost to the shoulder A hat of black net Is in the shepherdess shape with a bed of roses in all shades of pInk filling the for forward forward ward part of the crown while from the central part of this rises a white aigrette goes pointing to the back The back is huIlt high with rows of the net netA A beauty in pink pl plumes mes is a hat of real lace withe a single plume encircling the crown In n a tight band while at one side a bunch of plumes the same shade arises to lo a height of several inches and similar plumes fall below the brim Still More Hats Another hat the frame of which Is Istine tine fine wire covered with the lace is almost perfectly flat and has hasset hasset set in the front of the crown two long white plumes which fall straight back and droop beneath the brim An ex extreme extreme hat bat of the fete de fleur order is of dark green straw which forms fOnTIS a background for a mass of roses in all stages from buds to the deep purple withered roses Ris RisIng lag Ing on one side is a sprig of moss roses and mIngled with this is a touch of brilliant yellow like furze only more startling Beneath one s side de added to all these colors is an immense bow of pale blue satin ribbon A stunning hat of all black is of rows of Neapolitan braid alternating with Yal ral lace with an immense bunch of willow end plumes rising at one side caught by a cut jet buckle and falling far below the hat in the side and back A mushroom shaped lint of tine fine Panama is entirely covered with witha a crown of maline of which the edge is whipped and which is sewed around in overlapping circles Beneath the brim are great clusters of rich blue looking as If they had just been gathered from the bushes An Another Another other blue hat of different type is of leghorn cocked up toward one side ide and finished with masses of pink roses in the back while from the front where the edge is fastened up two long graceful ostrich quills another mw thing In millinery ri rise e towa d the theba ba bak k showing near th their lr tips two black spots like Uke the eyes all on peacock k feathers Another white hat is In Oat flat style le made of Irish point lace and reise braid the shape caught up at one side sid with a rosette of tiny pink rosebuds and Moss and ferns with rith more of the small smaIl rosebuds are seen at one side and three white plumes fall from the opposite side Around the low crown is a baud band of salmon pink panne velvet Irish Lace in This Another on the same or order er is al also o of Neapolitan braid and Irish lace It ItIs Itis Is caught at the rIght side with pink fold from beneath held by large aba abalone abalone lone shell buckle This ribbon extends nearly around the hat and at the op opposite opposite side it is fashioned into a large bow which falls over the hair A ro rosette rosette sette of tiny and nots holds in place three long willow plumes of pink while around the crown which is raised high above the flat brim is a band of the pink ribbon wIth tiny wreaths of e nots on and a small bUn of the tiny rosebuds within This one comes at the modest price of 75 While the severe style of the hat will still be in vogue the ten tendency dency even in street hats is toward more elaborate trimmings and where the hat is in plainest style In its gen general general eral aspect it may have tucked some somewhere somewhere where beneath the brim a rose start startling ling hug in its gorgeousness Colors in Hosiery It may seem a far cry in human clothing from the head gear of the springtImE to the foot gear but lash fash fashion ion has decreed that these two eX cx eXtremes In the matter of color shun shall If the they do not meet at least not clash clah The color seen in the hat will wUl be that chosen for the hose and the p petticoat instead of matching the street treet gown will be of a shade and color to go well with the hat Hence it will be that the new colors in hosiery are of especIal note nOte The greens are great greatly ly in vogue as nearly all the hats with flowers have a large of green The new lobster tints BUgge Uve tl e as they h Y atc arc ih name nam are reaIl goo good t and the he ns of black and white in both stockings and skIrt kt are endless j jNo No decided change is noted in shots shoes but it is safe to say that except for climbing or some such usage no one with a suitable foot will wear thing except low shoes These are In Inmany in inmany many styles but none nono of them greatly from the styles of the last few seasons The heels are perhaps trifle higher but shoes are also aloo for the individual taste with low lower heels and thicker soles |