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Show Old poshiond Smoking js? Docu the pqzp fAN,you do smocking? If noLI 1 Bl F set to work and learn, by all I Ey . means, for smocking Is at the I jr height of fashion. Tho fad I started with a revival of the old-stylo "j gardening smock, worn by English . women for years when working In . their gardens, and though at first, . over hero this summer, the smock was , worn only for gardening, It soon be- ! came a very practical garment for I tennis aifd other out of door sports In . the country, and all signs point to smocking as a modish garnlturo for winter blouses, frocks and ovon tall- i leurs next fall. 1 The American woman does not go ,- in for gardening with the enthusiasm . of her English cousins; over here gar-; gar-; denlng is a fad.i a pretty pursuit for 1 thoso who love the out-of-doors and , who have plenty of tlmo to potter ,' around of mornings, watering, woed-! woed-! Ing and clipping flowers for the house. . In England gardening Is as much a part of the average woman's day In j the country as ordering tho dinner s and overseeing the housemaid. Every house has Its charming garden and g evon when there Is a staff of gar-t gar-t denens, my lady of tho manor likes to 1 tond certain fiower-beds which aro her f especial care, and almost always sho does tho cutting of flowers for dining room, living room and bed rooms with her own fair hands carefully gloved hand.- of course. Tho regulation garden smock as England sees It, is pictured. It Is a rather shapeless garment mado of linen, In a shado that does not roadlly show soil tracos. Bluo, tan or brown linen is most often used, though thero are smocks of green and evon of rose color. Tho pictured smock is In raspberry rasp-berry pink linen with a narrow turn-dver turn-dver collar of white linen, attached to tho smock. Tho picturesque hat with its shady brim Is of Inexpensive straw with trimming of pompadour flowered ribbon. Bands of tho ribbon aro drawn down through slashes in tho brim and tlo under tho chin In tho manner of the English garden hat, which Is a practical and usually it must bo admitted a battered affair, worn for shade only. This smock has looso slcovc3 sot Into raglan shoulders and the wide front and back breadths of tho garment gar-ment aro gathered closely In groups of hand-smocklng. which is really shirring done with a sort of cross-stitch, cross-stitch, tho same fold in tho material being taken up with tho neodle In every row of stitches, so that the six llIli!Hiiil or eight rows of smocking hold the folds In oven groups. One reason why smocking has rotalned its excluslve-noss excluslve-noss and distinction as a trimming for children's dresses 13 bocauso this son of stltchery is always done by hand, and rather patiently and painstakingly too, for ono may not hurry with smocking. Every stitch must be perfectly per-fectly and accurately sot. In tho shops a linen smock In bluo, rose, violet or tan, costs about olght dollars. A model of this kind, mado of Dutch bluo linon, Is a trifle Bhorter than the smock pictured, and a trllle fullor, also, so that bolow tho amock-Ing amock-Ing tho llnon flaroo out Jauntily. The smock is slashed down the front for nlno Inches and then laced up with bluo cord, through embroidered eyo-lots. eyo-lots. A deop collar of tho bluo linen turns down over tho shoulders and the Bmock has two patch pockot3 at olther sldo of tho contor front. Thore Is a smartness and dash about this FMBfllllSEaSaSlSHT t0KBaEWm slightly modified English smock that makes It very alluring as an outing garment. With a striped bluo anc whlto linen skirt and a white straw sport hat faced and banded'wlth blue taffeta it Is quite tho proper thing for a morning In the country. Thero aro shorter smocks that tako the place of tho long-adored middy blouse Theso como Just below the hip and the fullness which would bo ugly In such a short smock is confined con-fined undor a looso belt. These short smocks aro rather hybrid affairs and It must bo confessod look a little like an old-fashlonod dresslng-sacquo mado In tho "Mother Hubbard" stylo; but they are sanctioned by fashion this summor and wha moro can one say? That tho smocked gown la going to be a part of wlntor modes la attested UffJHSHH pliiJHlii i ! iJiiiraiil by a now afternoon costumo Just com- H pletod for a fall trousseau. It Is of H green chiffon over taffeta silk of the H sumo shado. Tho green silk skirt has M four corded rullles which reach as , H high as the knees and over tho green j H silk foundation is a smocked tunic H of green chiffon, tho smocking done , M In black silk coming across tho bust M and back, and again over the hips, B bolow tho natural waistline. Between , H tho groups of smocking on tho hip J H aro slashes in the chiffon through H which runs a black Jet bead girdle jH with tassolod onds which fall at ono jH side, keeping the gathered chiffon In ' ' H flat lines. At tho opposite sldo the ! H chiffon Is slashed and bordered with H Jet beads, opening to show tho ruffled H skirt, though caught togethor at th H kneo under a Jet bead clasp. H 'm |