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Show Costumes For Early Spring New York, January 4. For those of us wlio are fortunate . enough to lie able to step, as It were, from beneath the cloudy, wintry skies of the North Into the sunshine and flowers of the South, the shops are fairly overflowing with linens, soft x f if' - McCall W M Serge Bolero Suit. silks, cool looking suitings, the most feminine of hats, parasols, and all the other accessories that go to .make up the summer costume. When the various European countries coun-tries unconsciously exerted their influence in-fluence on styles by their entry into the war, or their equally difficult stand of neutrality, the bolero was again introduced Into the woman's wardrobe, it 'being the Spanish note. It is a model that has alweys ibeen a great favorite. It is generally ibecom-ing ibecom-ing and may be made at home with results as good as if fashioned by a tailor. Fine blue serge, soutached, or trimmed with a design in gold braid or galoon, is most often seen in the .bolero models; often the upper ' portion of the pleated or gathered t; skirt is of taffeta in black or the same tone as the serge. Collars and cuffs of taffeta and taffeta covered ibottons , are also used with good effect. In both the suitings and the soft silks being fashioned into frocks and suits for southern wear and early spring, the popularity of stripes and checks is quite as marked as it was last season; the combination of black and white and soft gray is also noticeable. no-ticeable. The soft wool suitings in checks ranging from the very tiny pat. - tern to the aggressive checker-board designs are all good, relieved with a touch of vivid gretsn, rose, or orange; black taffeta and moire are also effective effec-tive for trimming these suits and tailored tail-ored frocks. The striped silks are usually combined with a plain satin or silk, in a tone that harmonizes with or is an effective contrast to the predominating color in the striped material. Sheer fabrics, crepe Georgettes, Georg-ettes, chiffon-cloths, silk voiles, and the various other transparent fabrics promise to be as good for sleeves, collars and other trimming purposes as they have ben for the past few seasons. sea-sons. Blouses of chiffon-cloth, chiffon, and similar materials, dainty and becoming becom-ing to a degree, were never very durable. dur-able. It was really heartbreaking when one had a particularly becoming- and rather expensive blouse, to have it begin to pull out and wear under un-der the arms and at the elbows after only one or two wearings. This was partially done away with when cotton net was introduced for lining these waists; this season we have the net blouse itself, often lined with net or chiffon-cloth. These waists are delightfully de-lightfully sheer and they have a wonderful won-derful wearing quality. Often the net blouse is trimmed with a linen cluny, or another equally pretty lace in a rather heavy pattern. Then again collar and cuffs are of a picot-edged Georgette in a delicate tone of rose, yellow, or pale pink. Novelty buttons in quaint effective colorings are sometimes used at the closing of collar, or down the front, forming unusually attractive trimming details. The softly colored blouse of crepe Georgette has by no means taken a back seat because of the popularity of the new net favorite; these are being brought out, if anything, in prettier pret-tier and more charmingly colored de signs than ever before. Rose pink Is a favorite shade as it combines so well with the dark blues, browns and other tailored suit colors. Small and medium sizea nats as always al-ways are the first outputs of our New York milliners for the south and early spring. Many of the prettiest of them show a combination of straw and taffeta. taf-feta. One especially attractive medium-sized hat displayed on the Avenue Aven-ue some time ago, was of tete de Negre satin; the brim turned up a Plain and Striped Taffeta. trifle on the left side and the frame H was covered smoothly save for a cord H effect around the outer edge of the brim and at the top of the crown. The only trimming was a severely straight H upstanding wing made of the satin, edged with a cut ruchlng of maline in the same shade of brown as the H hat. The effect of the hat was smart and tailored. Another pretty small hat was made half of straw braid and H half of changeable taffeta, the taffeta H being draped over one side of the crown, finishing in a high up-standing H loop on the side. Imitation Goura in a soft shade of gray was effective H trimming on another small hat. In H parasols there are many novelties as H always at the opening of a season. H Some Japanese effects are seen, and H some hand embroidered designs; a H particularly pretty fancy parasol was H of dark taffeta gathered and tasselled H at the points. H |