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Show Summer Fashions For Summer Days New York, July 15. AT last we have some summer weather, and it is interesting to watch the transformation of Fifth Avenue. A week or so ago, coat suits and capes were the order of the day; now, they are laid aside in favor of cooler costumes. Ginghams Ging-hams and linens and organdies, calico cal-ico and voile and crepe; bewildering in their endless variety of design and color. The Avenue is like an enormous enor-mous flower garden, and the hats and knitting bags carry out the delusion delightfully. MOCAM. y The simplest dresses are, as is always al-ways the case, the most desirable. One interesting little model that I saw the other day of fine striped voile had no trimming whatsoever, the stripes themselves being used as trimming. There was a yoke on the waist and also one, semi-fitted on the skirt, with the stripes running around. The collar and cuffs were cut on the bias, and the sleeves, the bottom part of the waist and the skirt had the stripes running up and down. The material was a deep purple and white stripe, and the soft crushed girdle was of matching purple satin. A wide organdie hat of white with a wreath of flat dull green leaves was worn with it, and the whole effect was perfectly charming. They are showing the most fascinating fasci-nating sets of "things' now; there is the wide brimmed shade hat with an interesting design worked in wool or with flat flowers appliqued around the crown; a deep bag, presumably for knitting, but far larger than those we have been accustomed to seeing which can hold a week-end wardrobe if necessary; a sports suit, consisting of a sleeveless coat with two skirts, one being camouflaged in the bag; sports shoes with low heel3; and a wide spreading parasol. With this set one feels able tp set forth on a prolonged pro-longed auto or camping trip. Illustrated here is a very attractive 'little frock that is just simple aB it can be. It is cut all in one, with only two seams, those under the arms and down the skirt. The Quaker gray poplin pop-lin of the dress is relieved by the white braiding, and white collarless neck and lower edge of the sleeves. The dress buttons on each shoulder with large white pearl buttons, and the belt, with its rows of white braid, slips through slashes in the front, and fastens under, thus showing no fastening. The drop shoulder is one of the very newest of the fall fashions. Now that we have gotten summer nicely started, we are turning our thoughts to autumn and the necessary fall wardrobe. Every now and then one sees on the street a velvet hat. The shops have been showing them for some time now, but perhaps because be-cause we have had such a cool summer, sum-mer, the devotees of "something new" have not rushed the season as they were wont to do of old. Velvet coatees and slip on jackets are quite popular, and some of the smartest sports skirts are of plaid wool. Pelt hats are always good for sports wear. Thus it goes. We are eagerly watching watch-ing for .news of fall fashions, even in the midst of summer's heat. Ct'Al.I. flyjf' The sports costume is a well recognized recog-nized part of the wardrobe, for it Alls so many needs and bridges the gap between morning and after' ,on so nicely! Sometimes they are made of heavy sports silk, Rajah, tussah or some other silk especially designed for this type of garment. Sometimes the coat is of satin and the skirt of silk, satin, or cotton or wool. There is no limit to the variety of these styles. The one illustrated here Is suitable for dressy afternoon wear. |