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Show DAINTY AND COLORFUL FROCKS; . DRESS AND COATS OF SAME STUFF SOMETIMES dreams do come true. Even day dreams for that matter. It has long since been the way of the "summer girl" to dream of. wide-brimmed wide-brimmed picture hats and sheer Buttery But-tery frocks. There have been seasons when Dame Fashion turned a deaf ear to such appeal, preferring to garb the fair sex in boyish, "bobbed" and tailored tai-lored manner. This summer, however, the mode has brought about the reali- Ists and fashionables for this new custom cus-tom of matching the coat to the frock. This popular matching mode finds its happiest expression in the realm of gay print ensembles which top lively live-ly patterned dresses with coats of the salts-nine lively patterned material The picture emphasizes the fact that this colorful ensemble vogue which Is so prominent in the midsummer landscape land-scape features both "the long and the I pi v: : V I f l 1 $ r I f Dress of Filmy Chiffon Print. zatlon of madam's aud mademoiselle's fondest dreams. N'ot for many a day has it becu given to fashion's clientele to indulge in such lovely apparel. All that the' feminine heart can do-sire do-sire in the way of dainty, flowery, lacy, colorful raiment is being painted on tlie present-day style canvas. There Is a spirit of transparency about hats, frocks and wraps this summer which Is entrancing. Huge crinoline really-and-truly picture hats in pastel tint's becomingly top the flowery print frocks or those of monotone tinted chiffons or the gowns all of lace which are so fashionable. Leghorn, tuscan lace straw and milan floppy-brimmed hats are also very much In vogue. As to summer gowns, it seems that sleevelessness Is having Its own way. and at all hours of the day. Not only are the simplest of sports frocks sans sleeves, but the daintiest of garden party gowns refuse to be sleeved. The lovely dress In the picture Is a tilniy chiffon print styled with a view to accenting the fitted hipline. the so railed minaret fullness In the skirt and the absence of sleeves One thing In regard to this dress Should be commented upon, anil that Is '- - "V short of It" as far as coats are con cerned. The model to the left, as you see, Is the fashionable seven-eighths length-It length-It Is a highly colorful affair from start to finish, its navj silk background being be-ing enlivened with a print done In vivid scarlet and buff quite Spanish in Its coloring. The hemline of the dress and Its diagonal front opening are scalloped. A piping of plain red outlines all the edges. One Is almost Justified In referring to the three-piece sports costume to the right as a travelogue ensemble, because of the fact that the printed crepe of which it Is made is one ol those new scenic silks, this one cleverly clever-ly depicting certain famous playgrounds play-grounds of the world. There are palm trees and little figures and sea and sky and such, adroitly depicted so as to produce a handsome all-over design. de-sign. The colors are particularly fetching, harmonized and blending sc as to produce a fascinating p;itel effect. Another Important style feuture ol this sports frock Is the fact of tin blouse being sans sleeves. The sleeveless sleeve-less mode Is sprea '''"; TbLs, how- Two Lovely Costumes. the utter sPupllclty wllh which It 1 styled. No rimming for the filmy modish I'lillTons and lace frociis Is fashion h decree, the Idea being to play up the beauty of the material Itsi'lf. To went wllh dainty frocks such as I he one here pictured women are choosing exquisite coals of colorful transparent velvet. The call of the midsummer Hindu Is to complele the costume picture with n compleuienlnry coaL Greatest Mjlhii'hisin l shown by both fashlon- ever. need not alarm those who do noi admire . unsleeved frocks. Likewise those to whom sleevelessness Is any thing but becoming may solve the problem of being chic by wearing n sleeved coat of the Identical materhil as that of the drrs Must of I In sheer costumes for dressy garden parly wear and the like stress n matching coat, as well as do the smart sporls nnlllls of silk and crepe, of pique or linen as the case may be. JULIA IK) TT( I M LEY (tel. I92S. Wmliin NrwalMiw t 111. .11. |