OCR Text |
Show ; Knitted Blouse I and Dress Here HE Among the spcctul things thnt Paris H tins provided for summer wear are KB beautiful sweaters lu artificial silk, R,. silk and wool and In silk and motal. Rt Prom n standpoint of fashion, observes Ht; correspondent, woman will not accept H' l'1" mannish sports sweater. The Kf smart I'arlslcnno wants something Hf more dressy and more becoming. With Ht licr the sweater hlouso Is worn to Bl tnko thu place of a lingerie or silk R Mouse and Is not Intended to be re- pifl moved as our sweaters arc, conse piB quently It Is not nearly so much of a piH real sports garment. PfM A welt known designer In Tarts, who PflB- Was at one time a premiere In one pil of tho hlg dressmaking shops, has cs- V tabllslicd herself as an authoritative piflj creator of tho best and most artistic piH In this typo of sweater blouse. Sho pfljr uas placed her models successfully , with prominent dressmakers who arc piflj receiving a great muny orders for PflH PfH Somo of tho best of these models, piH just received from Paris, aro all of pill tho knitted blouso typo. piH Wo havo had knitted blouses and pile knitted dresses for somo tlmo, but pflfll they, Ilka everything else, aro one of PPPJ tho things which fashion takes up cnB- piH unity and as casually lays aside, until Bomo day one of these hitherto careless ft ly considered urtlcles of dress sudden- pflflV' ly becomes a decided craze, often Inst pilj Ing much longer thnti Its most optl pill mlstlc spbnsors hoped for. There Is PPPJ. every Indication that tho knitted blouse PPH' nud tho knitted dress nnd suit will PPPPj' The Snappy French Sport Suit In a PPPPJj Combination of Dlack and White. PPPP bo prominent for autumn, so that It PPPPJ ' Is qulto safe to stock ono'a wardrobo PPPPJ with them. PPPK Ttillored Suits In Small Gray Checks. PPPPJ Although French women recently PPPPJ- have shown an unusual amount of en- PPPV thuslasm over certain types of tailored PPPPJ suits, their conception of a sport PPPPj suit Is qulto different from that of PPPH tho EnglUh woman or tho American. PPPPf In suits of knitted fabrics, any num. PPPPmn bcr of which aro being nindo up, not PPPPPr x only for Immediate wear but for mi- PPPPPJk tumn and winter showing, tho French eschew tho conservative coat and Fklrt type, preferring thoso of tho skirt nnd Jumper or ovcrblouse sort. Although little variety Is seen In the cut, much of It Is Introduced In other and more unusunl ways. For instance. If tho suit Is of brushed wool It is jntule up wrong side out; that Is, with the brushed sldo on the Inside of Uie garment gar-ment and tlw plain side out. This gives the desired warmth for outdoor games In whiter and also has a practical prac-tical Idea buck of It. We all know the unplensantness of having twigs and leaves us well ns dust catch on the sur-fnce sur-fnce of a brushed wool garment. Most Interesting suits consisting of n skirt, hlgh-ueckcd overblouse with a smart matching tie and a little hat or cap, all knitted, aro being shown by exclusive firms featuring sport clothing. These will he worn In tho mountains this summer mid will doubtless doubt-less prove among tho most populnr suits for country wardrobes next winter. win-ter. Striking nre tho colors and color combinations seen In these. There nre rich yellow striped with black, the stripes being placed so that they form a band around the bottom of tho skirt nnd on tho ends of the scarf or necktie. Yellow nlso tuny bo striped with a blue. Then there aro beautiful tones of lavender, mnuvo and violet and n chnrmlng blue-green of the shade thnt one often sees in the woods In midsummer. A novelty woolen material, for sport suits, which was among the now fabrics this spring wlU be even more popular us tho season ndvanccs. Tho pattern resembles the surfaco of a wnlllu Iron with Its alternating one qunrtcr-lnch squares of crumpled and plain material. It may bo had In all the bright shades of the modern sport costume, us well ns dark colors. Silk With Metal and Wool. Heavy silk sweaters recently Imported Im-ported by prominent Amerlcau firms have wool used In combination with tho sill: In an altogether new way. I havo lu mind n model of this sort which Is knitted of corn-colored silk. The wool takes the form of a vuri-colored flora! border mound the neck, the short .lowing .low-ing sleeves nud tho bottom. The lovely yellow and silver fin enler blouse called liouton d'Or shows much the same treatment In metal met-al and silk, the silver bands being placed on the collar, around the sleeves nud bottom and forming the belt. The metal Is knitted In (lie front In a rather complicated wuy. Itevertlng to the type of suit referred re-ferred to previously ns being one which litis taken n tremendous hold oh thu public tasto at the present time, It Is Interesting not only as n fashion but as Illustrative of the continuously con-tinuously varying demand which gives rise to the mushroom success from ; time to time of quite obscure dress makers and thu equally sudden fall of others In the proportion thnt they are uhlo to create a new type or popularize popu-larize an old one at the crucial moment mo-ment when that particular style happens, hap-pens, for somo reason or another, to pleaso tho public to nn unusual degree. de-gree. At the present time O'ttosscn, tho tailor, Is a big coinetltor of the dress-maker. dress-maker. There Is nothing striking about the suit which has been his greatest success. It consists of a straight skirt and it coat almost exactly like tho oldtltito rldlugOmhtt Jacket with snug fitting coat sleeves, small collar arid long fevers to tho wnlstllno where one button Is pi heed In link form. The cont rift's slight Hare. To bo absolutely abso-lutely what Is demanded at tho mo meiit the trait must be of a lightweight Iron gray 'checked material, tho checks being so "tfrah'11 that they are almost Invisible. |