Show the gown that Is la good taste is that suited to the tune ot the day and the place where one wears it and its suitability to ones age perhaps I 1 should say apparent age none other Is there is no excuse whatever tor the woman of and leisure be ing inappropriately gowned the woman of small means Is limit ed of course in her expenditures for dress and must of necessity sometimes strain a sartorial point but even she may sometimes forego an elaborate velvet reception gown and wrap and purchase instead a simple crepe de chine aud a plain tailored street costume with the result tha she will appear to tar better advantage it Is rumored from the fashion cen that yellow is to be the color of the coming hour it Is a light apricot shade and it appears in cloth embral dered with white braid and it Is crowned with a black chip hat and feathers the shape of the hat turn ing very much up at one side of the front and down at the other with way ing plumes resting on a mass of hair this suggestion of a pale i ellow dress trimmed with white braid thus crowned leaves a distinctly pleasant impression another fashion chronicled Is that of dark green or purple shoes these being made of the finest kid supplied with the best quality silk stockings to match are adopted by the prodigal who also take their footsteps abroad in the evening in shoes of gold and silver kid how ever these last have been superseded by shoes of woven gold and silver stuff the kid being regarded as of too tinsel a surface to display any discretion and discretion being the ablang quality we should look tor it in our shoes stripes of late the favorite of fashion are to be relegated to i back seat this spring and the ever popular checks will again come to the tore stripes will be of course worn to a limited extent the same as checks are now the latter having been worn right along not in the cos held over from a former sea son but in late new costumes truth to tell checks seem better suited to street gowns and stripes to those for more formal occasions tho black and white shepherd s plaid now in vogue some years haa been a ta wiatt the women of the modish world and deserve to be the new checks will come in all sorts of colors and sizes and varia alons and will be seen in the thin dressy materials as well as those fab bics best suited to coat and skirt cos for walking checks will however be worn more by the fashionable few rather than the general public as the market ins been flooded with striped materials and large quantities of ready made costumes many of them handsome many of them chic and these the manufacturers and shopkeepers will naturally endeavor to dispose of be fore featuring the newer checks the smart tailor and the parisian couturiers couturie rs will turn out many smart costumes in checks for their modish and wealthy customers in stripes will be to high tones of the same color shadow are the safest it desires stripes this stripe Is made by reversing the twist of the arps so that the color shades differ antly but Is decidedly unobtrusive tl e several shades of blue will doubtless bo the most worn this and these shades run through tho ever popular navy royal copen hagen and electric brown may be ranked second and the shades will vary from tobacco brown to biscuit color in greens the dull reseda shades and in reds the coral tones and crimson will be seen while violet comes last in the ranking in two toned worsteds worst eds there are to be the smart herringbone shadow stripes and surah and storm serges and in worsted fancy materials two toned stripes in blue and in brown and also in two shades of green and two ot tan are to be in evidence will be much worn in their different grades and under different names including and bici lenenne in the there are the black striped and plain colored WALKING COSTUME FOR YOUNG LADY of striped tweed trimmed with black velvet and velvet buttons cream colored mo hairs and the black the lat ter unless beautifully made of perfect cut and trimmed with handsome braid are mediocre in the extreme but well suited to the uses 0 lanu pi erable women hough weaves in salka are to be used this spring and the following summer these simulate the products of oriental handlooms hand looms and in color the darker shades will be more used in material for spring costumes designed for traveling and for morning wear nothing excels the serges espe dally the so called surah serge the storm serge Is more appropriate for winter and autumn wear but will also be used for sea going suits the costumes sketched in our large illustration are for afternoon wear the costume on the left Is of champagne face cloth the bedico trimmed with and braid the blouse of white tucked lawn the sketch on the right shows a skirt and blouse of black face cloth the blouse Is edged with black silk braid the under blouse of irish lace black hat with white plumes |