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Show Summer Fabrics Are Fascinating We hold out our hands to welcome tlio real summer weutber, because, observes a fashion writer, there comes bur chance to take on the picturesque iiurmcnts, and this year not only have the summer fabrics been perfected to n formerly unsuspected degree, bin .tllelr (lneness und beauty have Inspired In-spired the creators of fuslilons to work them Into more fascinating summer frocks. There ure things that can be done with cottons and linens and soft silks that could not be attempted In moro cumbersome fabrics. And thH year they liuvo been done In a most expressive uuy. Of trimmings theru lire few und thosu which do appear ure handled In n restrained manner, being applied only where they will show to tlielr best advantage. They sink . Into the gown as though they were a preconceived part of It, Instead In-stead of something Hung on nt the Just moment, when the Idea of trimming trim-ming suddenly became uppermost. So many are tbo fabrics, both ot domestic and Imported origin, that no one of them can bo said to hold the lead above another. Hut tho thin organdies or-gandies and swtss and dotted mulls certainly have received a lot of attention atten-tion and all buying signs point to the i Combination of the Ever Popular Checked Gingham and Organdie. fact that they will be mure popular for dully ami evening wear than they have oxer been before. Their colors ure their chief fascination, for thoro are the most beautiful hues nnd tune; tlio dyers hnvo outstripped tbemselvei In achieving really thrilling colors. And they huve done this coloring so subtly that, no mutter how startling the color may be, It still has the softness1 soft-ness1 that makes It becoming. The i-iMiihliiiitloiis of strong colors with pinches and frills and tlmmces of white organdie are being wonderfully wonder-fully done, organdie In pure "bile Is used xxlth ginghams, xxlth calicoes with clilntwu. xx lib sulceiis, with sxxlss xxltli crepes, Willi other organdies, or-gandies, Willi slll.s-.vos. xx lib every fabric known to the summer xvard-robe. xvard-robe. While organdie In some form or linnther Is almost a necessity, nnd there Ik this to he said for It; when It Is used, that dies xx herein It Is Incorporated In-corporated Is hound to be a success, for the crlspness of the transparent white stuff Is so becoming that It ennnot he rivaled by uny other material ma-terial or trimming. In some cases bits of white lace aro combined with the white organdie to make) the trimming more notable, but the lace Is tine and nun-oxx-. Filet has gone out of fashion more or les. perhaps because It xvus so consistently consistent-ly overdone nnd In Its place xve have the real hits of Valenciennes, the embroidered em-broidered sxvlsi trimmings. The latter lat-ter embroideries are coming along In colors made to match tho tones of the materials, nnd these are as good looking look-ing as the spring dyed laces have been, xvlth a character till their own to innkuj them notable. The cream-col-ored isxvlss embroideries are extremely extreme-ly god looking when used on gingham ging-ham and organdie dresses for collars or fichus, or sometimes Just for tiny turned-bock edgings. The heavier silks nnd the silk Jerseys In different sorts of weaves are yery much to he desired for summer sum-mer costumes that have to be subjected sub-jected to moro or less of hard wear. After all, the lighter mntcr'uls must be most delicately xvorn and treated, if they nro to retain for any time the crlspness which makes them what they are. But tho loosely xvoven and crepy silks are the things that can b xvorn nnd xvorn and still hang on to tho qunllty that was xvlth them when they xx'erc created. For this reason, If for no other, they nro highly Interesting additions to the summer things for country and toxvn xvear. Then, they nro cool to xvcnr nnd in most Instances they con be xvnshed, so that they combine com-bine many attributes In one. The Winsome Gingham Dress. A gingham dress that Is much admired ad-mired dally hns a Tittle underskirt of tho ubiquitous organdie nnd a little yoke xvlth quaintly puffed xvlilte organdie or-gandie sleeves. Then, nt the places xvhero the gingham meets' tho orgnn-die orgnn-die there nro, blockings xvlth bindings of black, cotton bruld. It makes a little picture dress most becoming to some types of women, and In Its simplicity sim-plicity It bus cx'erythlng to recommend recom-mend It. Another gingham frock has a plain turned-back collar of the embroidered sxxlss. Then tho tiny, short sleeves hnvo a narrow turned-buck edging of tho snme trimming. The gingham Is In cool green uud white checks nnd the trimming Is of that deep cafe 1111 Inlt touo tlint combines so nicely xvlth the shades of green. Tile collar Is rounded nnd the simplest sort of nnrrow hlnck velvet ribbon how Is poised under the chin. An organdie frock Is mnde of n shade of yellow termed maize. It Is 11 deep lustrous tone. Us trimming Is mndo of simple pulllngs of white organdie not moro than an Inch and a half wide xvhen finished. They edgo the loxv and rounded neckline; tliey form txvo rows on the short, tightly-fitting tightly-fitting sleeves, and they run around the skirt In txvo rows. The bodice o( this frock Is short walsted and slli'lit-ly slli'lit-ly bloused ami the skirt Is quite full after the accepted manner of tlio summer sum-mer orgundles. s , |