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Show Fancy Kimonos. Realizing tho American woman's pen- hunt for kimonos tho Japanese have made some special designs for her with which to charm her fancy. Tho handsomest hand-somest are silk or crcpo and aro elaborately elabo-rately embroidered In great flowers that are wrought either all In ono color or In natural tints. A bcautirul white ciepe kimono had a pale pink lining, which rolled up at the bottom In true oriental style and over the entire front and the sleeves werti worked great - bunches of purple and white wisteria. 'l..e wune thing was duplicated In faint yellow cropo and purple llowers. A blue gown had white bamboo. wlUcli is one of the prettiest of the patterns i which the Japanese do. and a plnK kimono ki-mono was worked In cherry blossoms, while a fourth In pale lavender was embellished with, purplo and whlto iris. Thore aro obis with these gowns, though the American woman seldom wears hers tied In the back. She likes to have the knot In front and usually 11 Is tied low llko a girdle. The short kimono Is a creation of tho fair-haired sister cntrely. 1 No Japanese woman would feel herself properly clad even In tlie seclusion of her own room If sno wore such an abbreviated gar-. gar-. ment, but the American Amis ninny uses for the short kimono and apparently prefers it, as a general thing, to tho longer gar.ment. These short ones como Just to tic hips and they nr? made exactly ex-actly like tho established style, oxcepl that the sleeves have sho-' - wings to' -correspond and there Is no obr. Occasionally Oc-casionally these novel kimonos arc supplied sup-plied with deep turn back collars, something some-thing after tho fashion of a sailor that extends down tho front in deep rovers or points. They look stunning when worn over a dainty embroidered batlsto petticoat or over a silk one that matches tho shado of tho Jacket. |