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Show MIDSUMMER AFTERNOON FROCKS; PARIS SENDS EVENING GOWNS MIDSUMMER Is Just ahead of us now, bringing the closing chapter chap-ter of the season's style story. 'Reviewing 'Re-viewing what has' gone before, It Is plain that the mode took femininity as its Inspiration and gave free rein to fancy. All sorts of furbelows are approved and afternoon gowns have gone through so many variations that there is only one experiment left for them to try. This is a development in the direction of simplicity. It Is a welcome departure for midsummer but Is only comparative simplicity at that what with scarves, ties, capes, bows, plaits and other accessories of new gowns. All's well that ends well, and here are two late arrivals among handsome lias relea-sod a flock of lovely eveuln gowns for suiiimer. They are as colorful and beautiful as a swarm of gorgeous Imtterllies and there ara almost al-most no two alike, which is as It should be. I'.tit the world is full of a number of tiling-? calculated to help out any amiable fairy god-mother who undertakes to provide variety in evening eve-ning gowns for her proteges this season. sea-son. There is the diversity of approved ap-proved styles for one thing and of materials, ma-terials, for another. Resides, the fancy of designers may go as far as It likes in matters of decoration. In these sheer, new evening frocks, rippling skirts, uneven hemlines, go-dots, go-dots, apron and oilier draperies, fringes and petal trimuilngs are all . vAa fi iv '.(-a it , - t A 1 1 ' h SIMPLICITY IS THEIR KEYNOTE afternoon gowns that show what a happy ending summer brings to the story of the mode. They are simple, cool and very dignified versions of i correct style. Black and white printed silk makes the charming model at the left, with wide jabot and cuffs of white georgette. A flat bow tie with very long ends is one unexpected finishing touch at the neck and the plain standing collar has a band of georgette at the top. Plain crepe in two colors is used for the matronly model at the right, which accents the growing favor shown to a higher waistline and the Moused bodice. Small, flat buttons, tovered with crepe like the dress, are used for decoration and they are featured and the beaded models continue con-tinue to be popular. The uneven hemline Is accomplished in many ways, the latest being the dip at the back, where the skirt is sometimes as much as twelve inches longer than it Is In front. As for the silhouette, it is varied all the way from the slender, straight lines of boad-ombroldcred gowns to the very bouffant skirt of the period frock, which is usually da-veloped da-veloped In taffeta silk. Laces, Including Includ-ing dyed and metallic varieties, and many flowers are Important Items among things used for adornments. In the two models from I'arls, shown In the sketch, green and gold combinations are presented. Tha simply designed gown at the lef 'flF IIP SYvrY-' - - TWO LOVELY EVENING GOWNS placed on the belt, above the plaits In the skirt and at the joining of dark and light crepe In the ties. Both gowns ha-ve long sleeves and emphasize a blouse walstlin& at the back and the approved skirt length. Either of them can be developed In whatever colors are most becoming, but there Is nothing noth-ing more chic than the hhick and white printed cJks for midsummer. .Navy blue and tan, or navy and American Amer-ican Keaiity ore modish color ccn.bl-nations, ccn.bl-nations, but lliere are many others that will surest themselves for th? crepe gown. The fairy god-inothr of Ihe mode who residfs In and about I'arls made of llglil -green crepe and gold lace, reveals its up-to-dateness In Its scalloped skirt with backward dip ami slightly Moused bodice. An oijually successful model, at the right, Ih of green chlfTon with embroidery of gold paillettes and a soft girdle of the cblf-fon. cblf-fon. Green Is one of the most popular colors for evening, but has many lovely rivals, as pink, geranium red, J flame, hyacinth blue and mauve. I White Is well represented In this colorful company and black grows lu favor as summer advances. JL'LL KOTTOMI.KV. |