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Show i NOTES FROM PARIS M An excellent piece of advice for the summer is: "When in doubt, choose 1 foulard." Foulard ha.s again comp into its own kingdom; never has this de lichtful silk bcn morf lovely, never has it been produced in luore delicate ' and original colorings. The Paris dressmaker dress-maker arc doing rather wonderful things with spotted foulards They arc lining the spots as a groundwork for silk or wool embroideries and producing produc-ing really amazing results by simple means. For example, a little chemise drees of black foulard was dotted over m with large white rings. At the hm, for a depth of twelve inches, these nogs were worked over on the outside y with japonica pink silk and covered that is (o say, the inner round with a miniature lattice of silver threads. The same embroidery was applied to the ironl and back of the bodice and the sash was made of jponica pink satin ribbon with black and white tassels. It was charming, this little dress, and so rumple; any one could achieve it. Rings or stripes may be decorated in this way with colored silks and metallic metal-lic threads. Irregular designs, too, can be outlined or filled in A Chemise Robe. Apropos the desirable things that I can be done by clever fingers; a delicious de-licious little chemise robe was made ot Turkish toweling, black striped with v. hite, the stripes belmc very narrow. The robe fell in straight lines from snoulder to hem and it was bordered by a twelve inch decoration worked in fine white wool and rather coarse black silk. The design was set and r;ither cubist. Small squares had been j worked between the stripes in while wool, an interval of black showing between be-tween the squares. Then the white stripes were worked over in loose cross-stitch with black silk. There was a Ions girdle of white, coarse braid worked over at the edge -with black silk and finished with black and white tassels. It was really charming and probably cost very little. What one would have had to pay for such a garment gar-ment in the Rue de la Paix makes one - tremble to think In Paris tissue d'eponge. or Turkish toweling, is very much worn .it present. Adaptable Collars To wear with a chemise dress made in this effective material, which opens widely in front, a long warMed vest of raspberry pink, butcher blue, or iTory white shantun? or simple linen with one of the new adaptable directolre i collars would be etieelle. Some of; these "adaptable" collars are so high, when turned up, that they almost reach the line of the eyes. They are shaped like a huge calyx, lined with unexpected unexpect-ed silk and are capable of being turned back over the shoulder at a moment's mo-ment's notice. |