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Show I Cotton to Be I in Limelight B , Ips!ilonnlilo dressmakers nro order-t order-t cottohs In Brent quantities, for the rttoa dress will bo the thing for tlio Kulne summer, advises n fuslilon cor-pondeiit cor-pondeiit In the New York Tribune. Question one bears on nil sides Is, HI they bo less expensive than silk tKk? And the answer Is, no. Cot-,ns Cot-,ns aro fashlonablo agnln, so why lould they be? gtjle creators have made many at-mps at-mps In the past to force the cotton ock to tho foreground, urul although iey often were successful nny success ut they have had Is i J nothing com-ired com-ired to tho avalanche of orders tor ,e jlorlfled cotton dress that Is pouring i to llu fashlonablo dressmaking es-ibllslmicnls. es-ibllslmicnls. Its success far exceeds ie most siingulno hopes of Its epon-Why epon-Why should frocks mndo of cotton mtcrlnls be preferred to thoue of Ik find chiffon, and why should this jle, brought out with trepldutlon i ire most new styles havo so quick- become a rage? It It because cotton manufacturers, cognlzlns tho almost unheard of ogue of the silk crepe dress, mado ottoQ materials thnl very closely re-Etnble re-Etnble crcpo do chine, crepe mnro-tin mnro-tin and even gcorgetto crepe, and filpicre realized that tho psychology tl moment at which to launch n r fttylo Is tho moment nt which the res of a fashion that flamed to white wUro burning low and that tho new Dffler must to some extent carry tho ppeal of the old favorite. Many New Weaves In Cotton. Manufacturers of cotton novelties re bringing out beautiful materials 1 Imitation of silk. There Is n cotton ibrlc colled crepe rouinnyn,- which L i r )oHv0,FCr.!peIJRo!:,n"ya ln CaStor y ... Embrod"ed With Cotton ""Hlo In Red and Ecru. SL rc?c,m,,e8 "en mnrociiln. J Is an almost perfect Imltn-2 Imltn-2 ' foorgotto made from anely J crimped cotton yarns of a SiSS ,0 u,nt U8M ,B th0 t makeup of these now cotton Wl? "r0 ns c"boto as silk. J f them have .drawn work of a "fiTi nCW, c,mrSctcrt which in. !" cro!dery In varl-colored " rns. others have n stuffed nppllquetrhmningt,, the form of fruits . i V?1 ,S"" 0,l"-,r8 l'.w clever con. lmiil.,iw ,,f two colors. llio ...lupilng of nmterluls that we have known for ,nny yours to now ulwnya 1ms reuulr d ho Z sign ng. low of us iftUIzo the a nit of though, urnlurlylny 80omlKty simple stylo. In the eolton drosses we not only have new Ideas It. le Presses themselves hut In ,lu mu,tUlU which means double force hack of this Inovo. tuent. One of the loveliest of the new trench models Is of crepe rou.nrya In n beige gray shmle and trln.mod with embroidery In multi-colors Imitating Imi-tating fruits and Mowers. Tho dress Is finished with a beautiful Klrdlo mndo In n design exactly matching tho pattern of the embroidery. When the frock is of a printed crepe the glr-die glr-die matches the design of the fabric This Is worth remembering, for If ono Is to havo simple cotton frocks made nt homo they may he lifted Out of the commonplace by n girdle blending with the color and design In tho ii.q tcrlnl. Frocks Harmonize Surroundings.. Many women aro ordering their cotton cot-ton dresses with much the same Idea In mind that nn Interior decorator has when she selects the chintzes for n country house or the nwnlngs of a sun room ; that Is, matching or blend. Ing tho colors with their surround-Ings. surround-Ings. French tourists traveling to Algiers and Tunis are ordering cotton frocks by the half-dozen, often the six being copies of one model but In different colors. These are known ns garden frocks, ns they may be In yellow, to match u plaster pagoda, or of pink, like the azaleas of tho garden, or In the blue of the Mediterranean. If you wish to be In the height of tho mode buy or make some cotton evening eve-ning dresses for this summer. They are very smart and there Is no doubt that their popularity will Increase with the approuch of the warm summer evenings. eve-nings. It Is not entirely duo to the fact that they arc suitable to summer evenings that they owo their prominence, for wo cannot point to many Instances where the thermometer has had tho Influence of fashions that one might expect, especially In recent years, when we swelter In furs In July and August and shiver In chiffon stockings In January. It Is becauso they aro different and carry with them a fresh appeal that women will receive them cnthuslustlcnlly. They are reminiscent of colonial days, when the cotton frock was very picturesque with its ruffles nwl ribbons, Its full skirt and Its tight bodice. Then there Is n strong clement cle-ment of Informality about a cotton frock which n silk ono Incks. Although Al-though tho former may bo much grny-er grny-er In coloring and more elaborate 'n design, still we consider It less formal than a slmplo silk dress. Simple 8tltehes Worked In Thread. Ono need not have evening dresses of cotton crcpo elaborately embroidered embroid-ered and adorned with puffy (lowers such ns many French dressmakers are showing. They may be very simple. Ono must do something In tho way of ornamentation, otherwise n straight-line straight-line dress of cotton crepe will be too closely related to nn npnm of the liouso dress, hut there nro simple stitches which may be done In beautifully-colored cotton threads Hint will go a long way toward lifting such a dress out of tho commonplace. As the new embroideries are In hold patterns and done with very heavy threads, a llttlo of tho work makes nn excellent showing, especially If the colors are well chosen. |