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Show FASHION NOTES. Pretty new stocks are made of cheviot chev-iot lined with white, and' pass around the throat in soft folds. There is a tie of the cheviot-in front. They come in pink and blue and in striped cheviot. With some of them come severe little white turn-over edges which go appropriately ap-propriately with a heavy material like cheviot and which button on, and can be taken on and off to wash. It is not necessary to launder the stock frequently. fre-quently. There is an attempt, and it seems to be meeting with some success, suc-cess, to do away with the linen collar and stiffly starched stock. This fashion has advantages. The stiff collar must be sent to the laundry to be ironed, while the softer stocks can be washed with the rest of the household linen. The linen collar is not out by any means, but certainly the other things obtain to an appreciable extent. They are coming with the soft finish around the wrists of shirt waists. The stiff cuff takes from the effect of a fine waist which otherwise could be worn for more dressy ocacsions. Some of these soft folded stocks come in silk and have double ties, a soft white one under the one that Is the color of the stock. Some of the wash stocks have simlar ties. These are all Paris novelties, novel-ties, but comparatively inexpensive. Yellow-brown gauze is now said to be the best protective against freckles or sunburn of all veils, and should be adopted by those whose skins are particularly par-ticularly susceptible. 4 One of the new modes of trimming foulard gowns consists of bands of white silk, machine-stitched in straight rows or in a pattern, which makes them very effective as a finish for the bodice, and the flounces in the skirt. " Three bands of narrow black velvet ribbon with small gold slides threaded on to them at intervals are a pretty finish for a collar band, and sometimes they are arranged with crossed ends finished with a little tassel of gold. Silk, satin and even velvet stocks are worn with the cotton shirt waists, being be-ing vastly more becoming than the stiff linen collars. The new collar band is quite straight around, having no rounded form at the sides, but it is trimmed as elaborately as you like. Hand stitching is indeed one of the new features of finish on our gowns and In the expert labor it requires will outdo all others in the way of extravagance. extrav-agance. While it cannot be so accurate as machine stitching, it has an air which stamps your gown as chic. Bands of cloth and silk are covered with hand stitching. Some very pretty youthful gowns in white are made with a shirred yoke and collar, sleeves shirred around the entire length of the arm,, and the material ma-terial shirred again at the waist in the form of a deep girdle in which the shirring on the. skirt merges as if it were all in one. A deep hem is the only finish at the foot. Any of the thin white materials and flowered muslins may he made in this way. The latter fabrics are very artistic this season, with large soft floral effects printed in imitation of the hand-painted muslins worn last season. They are used for evening as well as afternoon gowns, and are so thin and soft that they seem almost' like chiffon. Lace -and ribbon velvet In black, or some color in, the flowering, are used for trimming. The result is more effective and unusual, un-usual, however, if the lace is all in one piece for yoke and a bell elbow sleeve, or for a bolero, caught together in front with a velvet rosette. The skirt, shirred in at the waist line from either side of a narrow front breadth, requires re-quires only a hem and a cluster of tucks above. Independent wash skirts for little girls are being sold In the shops this season. They are a very convenient mode, as they are well made and shapely, and form a trim costume with any sort of a shirt waist. They are to be had in linen crash or Russian duck, in staple colors cadet blue, navy, white and red with polka dots or iji plain shades; also in pique, or tan and blue covert cloth. These skirts show garnitures of applique, insertion or stitched bands. . Womankind has tired of trailing dirt-bedragged dirt-bedragged skirts and of cramping one arm in holding them up, and so the new skirt, which is to come In next fall, is to be of ankle length at any rate, it will clear the ground and be even all around. It will fall from a trim waist line in folds at the back, giving a swinging fullness that is graceful and at the same time convenient. |