| Show 1110W T1 E IRA Nr IIMYS 1 GRL CONTh1IVS 10 lOOK SMART fIN IB WATll1U The New Patent Reversible Skirt Her GiltButtoned Little < + = Jacket and Pigskin BootsApril I Brides and Brides Cqlmaids La1tl 1T belonG to the woman who manages to look spruce and Jaunty on a rainy day She has a merited trl urn ph over the rest of her sex and tins a now nhtcc In that doubtful territory ter-ritory for which the whole oC femininity feminin-ity strives thn heart of man Is there anything more cheering on those gloomy days when life looks colorless col-orless and dim than the sight of a dainty maid undaunted by the lowerIng lower-Ing heavens and the slushy earth tripping trip-ping lightly over mud and grime and beaming rosily beneath her dripping umbrella She Is like a smile through tears and deserves the grateful recognition recog-nition she receives I But feho l is a rare sight There are I not many women who should let themselves them-selves out of doors In bad weather certainly I not before they have given the question of their costume some study and put themselves in shape to I battle with the unbecomingness of outside j out-side influences The rainyday girl has entirely discarded dis-carded rubber coats and mackintoshes She has found that they do not serve to keep her trim and dry for they have a nasty way of shedding the water at the rim of their cape and skirts and I letting It drip on the Instep getting her hoots all soggy and moist about the ankle besides which they arc awkward awk-ward and unmanageable Bho wears now one of the new patent reversible skirts of Scotch nlald with a little doublebreasted Jacket which leaves her arms free to struggle with her umbrella um-brella Her skirl leaches to the top of her bootr and Is I valei proof Just heavy enough to keep the slightest moisture from pei miMiing and yet light enough to give her free and unhampered action ac-tion The new reversible skirts are made without plackets and are so large In the waist that they slip easily over tho head Then all that has to be done Is to confine them at the waist by the hook and eye to be discovered on the waistband this draws the skirt neatly about the waist and hips and leaves a great loop standing out at the back How strange No not at all This big loop Is folded and hooked back again upon the waistband and forms the fashionable boxpleat down the back of the skirt giving It a decided style The skirt Is plain on one side and plaid on the other and PO neatly made that It is simply a matter of taste and choice with the wearer as to which side shall be worn In or out Tho little jackets of the same material are doublebreasted and sometimes show smart gilt or silver livery buttons They have reverses of the plaid and are often blessed with buttoned pockets pock-ets ample enough to hold the Inevitable Inevita-ble small parcels that accumulate about women In wet weather A bou tonlere of violets or a red carnation on the revere adds a pretty defiant touch and a distant charm to the ensemble of this triggost of girls the rainy daygirl day-girl And now two words as to her boots and umbrella She never makes the mistake of selecting an umbrella with an ornate or cumbersome handle but gets one that is simple unostentatious and easily grasped in the hand Sometimes Some-times she launches into color and has the frame covered with cardinal violet or Yale blue to sound a bright note through the darkness of the weather With stout pigskin corksoled boots she may venture without goloshes which remain the one hideous and clumsy adjunct to the wetweather toilet ABOUT APRIL BRIDES Just a little gossip now about the April brides The girl who marries In the spring has no excuse for not having hav-ing a beautiful wedding and a trousseau trous-seau ravissante Think what inspiration inspira-tion she can draw from nature who is showing her samples in leaves and flowers every day and giving us examples exam-ples In color combination that we may richly profit by There la every latitude lati-tude given this season for originality and distinctiveness of style The shops arc aglow with every variety In color fabric and cut and novelties of every sort abound v It Is quite the fad to have the bridal gown elegant but very simple and It Is a pleasing fashion too What occasion occa-sion more highly warrants a dignified simplicity of style One of the pi oiliest weddings T have heard of this season Is to occur directly after Easter and to bo celebrated at a country home near New York Tho brldo Is to have eight maids in attendance attend-ance who arc to wear frilly gownH of solidlytinted light yellow organdie The bodices are to he guide long l sleeved and highnecked except for a little v at the throat The skirts have three narrow frills at the bottom The frills have no trimming but a tiny silk stitched hem The upper part of the I skirt are draped with five petalshaped parlers of a very pale shade of yellow chiffon TlnHO end in points and slop lust about six Inches above tho frills at the bottom of thr skirls A fichu oft of-t Iw name yellow chiffon I bordered with tiny hemmed and silk studied frills is draped over till shoulders and tied in a knot Just at the top of nn empire girdle of crushed primrose panne As you have doubtless guessed the whole uniform Is made in look ns much I like a fresh sweet daffodil of early flprinir as possible andto carry out the r Idea the bouquets are to he huge hunches of daffodils tied with yellow gauze The bridesmaids hats are charming I and are in a style that promises to be very popular thIs summer They are wrought In four shades of yellow ton lug Into a deeper yellow than the gowns They are made on a founda tion of a yellow straw flat under the brim of which are little bunches of ar tificial primroses and black velvet rosettes ro-settes showing against the hair The top of the brim Is covered with four or five circular pieces of crapy yellow chiffon which arc < simply hemmed and stitched on the outer edge and fit without fullness around the t crown All or these circular pieces art borne little wider than the straw brim 1 thai they rest upon and each succeeding layer Is a trifle smaller that the out below It I You can Just Imagine how soft and Pretty the whole thing is and how changing and varying are Its hues Of course the deepest shades arc under = hearth and lima paler ones on top The straw crown is veiled by folds of yel low chiffon and a lot of pretty yeUow Jonquils are grouped at omit ski wills soma moro rosettes of narrow black velvet ribbon This styli of hat is I very picturesque and scents in be highly in vogue 1 see theta at nM of thc Im porters in ever j o many different col ors Ihoy are lovely in violet and law iMKkr fluid so prelty In bhiidos If blue from regular china blue to a sklmmud milk shade that la very marl white I It Is such a good way to make over a last years hat too because the fiann Is entirely covered and enough chiffon and flowers to make it can be bourn at small expense The brides costume Is not to be of Duchess satin and lace as usual Burt Is of an exquisite Oriental satin 1Vhe the shadows lurk in the folds of ih gown there Is a pinkish hue that glr < a warmer blushful tone In its I hit < ness but it Is not enough to be called rosy and might easily escape dLedlnll The skirt Is i ut with a round train and falls In heavy pleats fiom the waist in the back The front seams err opined about a foot and half ahme I the hem and + a fan of gathered malign covered with small seed pearls app ars between the widths of satiny The bodice is extremely simple ilsht lilting and seamless In tin back and front It Is cut square in Ui > q neck the square outlined by a tc Ido baud of J whlll pearl embroidered veUcl and filled In with the pcai 1sludikd tnillin The collar Is I also of miillne transparent transpar-ent and finished at the top by a line of seed pearls The tlghtlltllng sleeve of the Oriental satin lopes out Into a Ivll at the elbow with a quaint picture ipie I effect and an undorsleeve ot tilt malm forms a dainty puff beneath the bill I Long gloves meet the sleeves al ih elbow = |
