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Show All Women Like Pretty Clothes i Standardizing Fashions to Gain Saving Sure Not to Meet Milady's Approval. COMBINATIONS ARE IN FAVOR Materials Used Together Afford Frock Which Needs Little Trlrqmlng Frills for the 8lender Young Woman. Wo may talk of overalls and uniforms uni-forms as much ns we like, observes a prominent fashion authority, but tho love of pretty clothes Inherent In every woman never will bo suppressed. Those who work toward standardizing fashions for women cherish a vnlu hope. It Is not because women nro extravagant that they Insist on pretty cloth os, for a woman will reully work to get what she wants la her dress. She will shop carefully to be suro of Iho best values and search for dressmakers dress-makers who will carry out her Ideas Inexpensively. Why should wo wenr overalls? If we adopt ovoralls and uniforms even to help reduce tho cost of living and It In doubtful whether It would mnko nny great difference In this wo would In time feel ns stupid ns the Pale yellow organdie drees with fluted ruffles which Is a frilly hot weather outfit that appeals. overalls look. In a dress of thin sort we nro limited In tho choice of both design nnd color and color nnd pretty pret-ty clothes may both be said to bo synonymous with charm. Make Their Dresses Over. Ono way of economizing In dress In by giving thought to our selection In the first place nnd choosing n style Hint we can easily chango. Tho Idea of making a dress over from ono fnsh. Ion to another Is typically Englleh. Thus It Is quite ensy to understand why ninny Kngllsh novelists have dressed their heroines from tmnkn In the family gurret. Ono enn Imnglno thut no dress Is ever thrown away by nn Kngllsliwoman, for she expects that either sho or some of her de-heendnnts de-heendnnts will wear It. English Sateens There wan a time when wo would hnvn scoffed at tho Idea of wearing a sateen dresn. Now dresses of English Eng-lish sateens nro quite In tho mode. It Is amusing the beauty certain materials mate-rials acquire directly they become 'fashlonuble. Wo might all become stylo creators If we hud tho courage cour-age to buy materials when they nro not popular nnd make frocks so pretty, thnt everybody would wnnt to copy them. Of course, when a mnterlul such an suteen becomes fashionable Its makers give more attention to bringing bring-ing out pretty pnttorns. Tho sateens of this season look llko foulards. There are some with white backgrounds nnd smnll conventional designs In bright reds and blues, with here and there a dash of black, that nro charming. Then, there Is a brown snteen, with a conventional design In white, with accents of blnck, that Is smart. Design Adapted to English Prints. In n model of English sateen the background of the material In white and the llttlo spots are bright red outlined with black. The sash and i hi i ''"r;i'- "JS(8?na8atfcH6iaaiilffl ''"rTIiJlpir In decided contrast to ours, tha Pnrlsleuno who mukcx any pretense o being smart would not wenr u second season dress. Whereas, the Englishwoman English-woman wears her clothes year nflei yenr because they nro good clnthei nud becoming to her, tho French woman wom-an hns nbsolutely tho dre.s of tsf; hour, which Is nlwnys a model or n copy of ono from n well known Hrm nnd which benrs tho enchet of tlu best designer's approval for the moimnf, The 'mart Pnrlslcnnc wears thin dresj almost continuously for a short period, Then she Is never seen In It again, but takes up the next siunrt tljlug. The Englishwoman during tho snuie period will wear a different dress every day and will keep on wearing this snmo dress intermittently for s period of months. Tho American woman makes n happy compromlso be twecn the two. For Summery Dresses. A great innn of this summer's dresses show a combination of twe materials. There Is more back of tnl! Idea thnn might appear on tho surface, sur-face, for such n frock needs very little lit-tle In tho way of trimming. As It Is always easier to visualize a frock with some definite color In mind, 1 would suggest n slip of white Swlsi dotted In soft blue, with u narrow sash and a long collar of plain white organdie continuing to tho bottom of the skirt. Or tho entire dress may tie of bright red Swiss, with white dots und a long white orgundle collar cnught In nt the belt and under thu hem of the skirt. A hat of peunut straw, bright red In color, thu brha bouud with white orxundle und the crowu swathed with a Bcnrf of tho samu material, muy complete the costume. cos-tume. Or the straw crowu muy bo removed and one of white orgundle substituted. 1 n.ltllllH .MA.a nW.t.. In I. I ... A .4 miwuici iiiuiiy uuuti in uiuiuvtru through using two different mute-rials mute-rials for a frock y making n pluln foundation dress, consisting of n straight gathered skirt and slmplo bodlco of white organdie. Over tho skirt Is plnced n side plaited tunic of coral colored Swiss, which Is open it tho front, nnd u coral ovcrwnlst almost like n bolero. The latter Is gathered at the waistline nnd opens at tho front so thnt a wide white pnnel Is revealed from the neckline to the hem. Still mora color Is Introduced In-troduced by a sash of Inch-wide gros-grain gros-grain ribbon of real ocean blue. You may like to work out this model In belgo Swiss over white, with a navy sash, or In lavender nnd white, with a green sash. For the Slender Woman. Toung girls like frills. So, for the slender young woman tho frock In bright colored Swiss organdie Is evolved. Thu hues In which tho organdies or-gandies muy be had are ravishing. For lnstnnce, there are various flame shades, and ns the material Is thin a pretty effect Is attained by making ono shade over nnother. Thnt Is, If n light flame color Is chosen the slip may be u bright red. Two pastel shades, Mich as pale green over n soft blue, give a lovely effect. Iirown over coral nnd brown over yellow nro suggested sug-gested as combinations. All the frills are plcot edged, so It Is not such u task to muko thin frock as ono would suppose. If one wishes, the flchu muy be of white organdie for becomlngnesn. although n smnrter effect Is nttnlned by milking It the snme color us thu dress. Slnco orgnndlu Is distinctly a hot weather material, still another model evohed from It Is of a very soft green. Just ii bit lighter thnn tho shndo known ns Jade. It has an npron skirt. A very line old-fashioned look Ing white hrnld nnd it white wish make the trimming. Again in Vogue |