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Show FASHIONDOM Some New Ideas for Summer Wear. BY MRS. KLVGSLEY. CT3 HE most successful styles H Hi which have stocd tho test of IKJ1J the last three months will bo retained, but to vary them designers de-signers have added important details, which give the costume a sense of novelty without any of the bizarre notes that so often jar the good tastes of women willing to be in fashion. The summer fashions are fascinating; fascinat-ing; they satisfy every sense of the beautiful, and it is to be hoped that the present refining influence will continue to wield the scepter for many years to come. It is natural for feminity to prefer the flower sprigged, diaphanous frocks of the summer to the somber hued, dignified costumes of silk and velvet worn in the winter, so the fashions for the warm months aro always welcomed wel-comed with particular joy. Tho lace and linen frocks which wo are to wear this season are elaborately elaborate-ly trimmed with hand embroidery, tucks, frills, puffings, shirrings and flounces, and aro as varied in forms as the flowers that aro sprinkled over their surfaces. Each model that the shopkeeper proudly displays has somo distiuctive feature which stamps it as a superor frock, and you long to have an example exam-ple of each variety in your wardrobe. As a typical detail one may mention men-tion dresses, the lower parts of wbic-h were flounced with linen and slightly wired or corded to produce the desired crinoline effect. Heretofore we have had frocks of silk, chiffon, tulle and other transparent trans-parent materials wired in this manner, man-ner, but now even the tub frocks show a decided flare. Our grandmothers wore dimity, muslin, lawn, and even frocks made of "English prints," over hoopskirls, and we may bo following in ther rootsteps before the summer has advanced very far. A dress that gives some idea of the mingling of materials and trimmings which have been adopted for summer wear, is of sheer whito linen embroidered em-broidered with wreaths of pink roses. The wide, flaring skirt has a deep border of the embroider', and is shirred over cords about tho top to form a snugly fitted yoke over tho hips. Tho bodice Is of the popular short-walsted short-walsted type, and is embroidered to correspond with the skirt. A fichu of sheerest while net : trimmed with real Valenciennes lace is arranged in' graceful folds over the : shoulders and is caught at the left ' side with an old-fashioned nosegay of : pale pink, yellow and mauve flowers. , Around the waist is tied a sash of pale i ylolot.xoolse-bbon. |