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Show I What The Women Are Wearing New York, July 2G, 19915. H Wash frocks are not what they used H to be. Indeed, you have to rub your H eyes and look twice to believe such a- H together smart garments were ever H intended to touch the water. The H nets, the voiles, the Swisses, and even H the linens, have that mysterious some- H thing called chic in their make-up that H gives them entree wherever the one- H piece silk dress may go. H Skirts Overlap Waists and Vice Versa H The treatment of the waistline is H one of the most important features of H the frocks that the big stores are H showing us. Invariably, the skirt H comes up and finishes with a heading H at the girdle, or the waist extends H into a peplum and covers the skirt. H This overlapping of waist and skirt of- H fers a welcome relief from more pro- H nounced joinings and is in itself a H trimming for the dress. H jc" " I Ji-ityy 1 17 H 1 0MOCALL &$! Z C a M One of the New Figured Voiles in an H Afternoon Dress, with a Smart Satin H Hat and Japanese Parasol B There are skirts with slightly raised m waistlines and plain inch-and-a-half W headings; others with wide girdles be- H low the heading, and, again, the skirt B is shirred or corded, with the heading M extending above. The peplums, too, H are treated in different ways. Many H are made with the new normal waist- H lines, bu there are still a few with H the raised waistlines. Usually, with H the peplum idea, the waist has a vest, H leaving an open space in the peplum Hj in front. At the waistline, there are Hj double lines of shirring, a crushed gir- B die, a belt of the material, or one of the new fancy belts of patent leather and white kid. The Popularity of Voile It has been said, and with truth, that this is a voile season. As in silk, taffeta is the favored weave, so in wash materials voile predominates. The loose, cross-mesh lends itself readily to the quaint styles of the 1915 season. Whole windows of the large stores are given up to frocks of voile; the Avenue throngs with people who wear it, and the lesser stores on the side streets contribute their share to its popularity in exclusive models for a chosen few of New York's select society. so-ciety. One model of unusual merit is a symphony in pink and white, standing on the spacious third floor of an Avenue Ave-nue store. The pink is a delicate salmon sal-mon shade, printed in bars and embroidered em-broidered in big coin dots in every fourth square. This material is used for the waist cut surplice fashion, and for the skirt that comes up over the waist with a heading, while the collar and cuffs are white voile, edged with a pleating of the pink and white. Pockets a Feature In Misses' Skirts If misses' skirts are properly pocketed, pock-eted, they are smart this season. Indeed, In-deed, pockets in their newly-found popularity have outgrown skirts and extend into straps on the belts and even into suspenders on the blouse. They are real pockets, conveniently placed squarely over the hip, that a girl can put her hands into and swagger swag-ger down the street like her big brother pockets that are big enough to hold the knickknacks of the handbag, hand-bag, and last, but not the least important, im-portant, pretty enough in shape to trim the skirt. They appear on the rough-and-ready skirt of linen, washable corduroy cordu-roy and cotton garbardine. There are some charming models in soft blue and rose linens, with suspender pockets; sports skirts of corduroy have pockets pock-ets that button over the belt big, roomy affairs at the sides that will be the pride and joy of some girl's life. Pipings for Linens One of the smartest ways of finishing finish-ing the linen skirts is with pipings. A store that makes a specialty of junior dresses is featuring a rose linen piped in white. The skirt is made with the large patch pockets at the side that extend into suspenders, on the waist. The skirt, suspenders, pockets and cuffs are of the rose linen, while the waist is white Swiss. The pocket is outlined with a piping of white that accentuates its shape and adds to the stylo. Midsummer Hats of Satin Satin hats are an innovation of the midseason. Large shapes are favored in these, and trimmings are unique and original. A broad-brimmed white satin has a flat bow inserted in the slits in the front of the crown; a black satin has white velvet birds pasted flat on the crown, and still another an-other white satin has a crown of wool made in four sections, each section embroidered in a different color. The last suggests the cap of the jockey set down on the top of a satin hat, with coloring even more brilliant. Velvet Combines with Hemp and Chip Velvet is one of the fads in summer hats. However, it is seldom used alone. This season, it combines with hemp and chip. One particularly attractive at-tractive hat has a wide soft brim of white hemp, with the low, close-fitting crown if black velvet finished at the front with a swirl of black velvet. This is held at the center with a pin stuck through diagonally. The head of the pin is a flower cut out of a flat piece of wood and painted in color. And, so it goes, each hat is a .story in itself, absolutely different from its neighbor. Oriental Parasols Parasols are the one Oriental note in the fashions. While there are spme long-handled, fluffy models shown, the Japanese parasol is by far the favor- M9CALI1 Suspender Pockets on a Linen Skirt Shown with the New Gainsborough Hat and Tapestry Bag ite. There are made of silk, cotton crepe and paper blunt at the end with many ribs and flat when opened. They come in broad awning stripes, plain colors and flowered. The very latest is the "Garden of Eden." This is a curious affair with black ebony handle, white ivory ribs and a white crepe top printed in black to represent repre-sent Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with all the trees and animals present. Tapestried Handbags Gate-top handbags are still popular. Rare bits of tapestry are now used for the bottom, with gorgeous tassels to finish them off. The rich tones of the material oddly contrast with the light dresses. There is one bag in charming charm-ing Oriental effect, with peacock' coloring col-oring of gold and purple combined with dark red. This is finished with a gold tassel and heavy gold cord at the top. Other bags have bracelets at the top in place of the cord; and, for those who do not care for the deep tones of the tapestry, there are beaded bead-ed effects and silver mesli bags In the same gate-top style. |