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FASHION FOR SPRING.
A NOTE FROM PARIS,
Every Parisienne wears gar- It appears that day dresses and skirts for the Spring will need totars, though the hose supporters be shortened, for it seems Paris of her little corset do all the has given up trying to do anything work of keeping her stockings in about the long skirt, except for place. But who could resist a evening. Having learned her pair of jade-green garters, lined lesson, she is willing to let us with black and finished with have them as short as we like, and whirl is raising the hemline rapidly.
WHITE TRIUMPHANT. - „
White is more of a raga than ever before-white, unrelieved by ang colour. Cropa and embossed materials are made into costumes of great simplicty and charm.
Second in favour to white are the lovely pastel shades of blue, rose, yellow, tan and the softest, coolest green imaginable. Also. figured materials that are blurred and blended just enough so that last season's more blatant pat- terns seem out of key.
For trimming there is a most ingenious use of braid, buttons, bits of contrasting material, em- broidery, lingerie collars and cuffs
and yestees that alone cost as much as a frock, so exquisite is the workmanship.
EMBROIDERY STAYS. Embroidery and braiding are both more popular for spring trimmings than they have been for winter. Frequently, the short cost is covered with very fine embroidery or small designs in soutache braid.
Une welcome hangover from last season is the embroidered monogram, which is seen on the very smartest frocks just as though it were something entirely new...
Footwear is more conservative than it has been, there are fewer
PARISIAN NOVELTIES. NOTES ABOUT SHOES. intricate strappings and exag
The scarf is at present the most important decorative adianer to feminine apparel. Since the ap. pearance of knitted silk and wool scarves last season the scope of the scarf bas been widening, and its dimensions and variations in- creasing.
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Shoes are becoming more and more featured in the fashion field. The sandal form is popular, and undergoes many variations, keeping, however, a highly modernised character.
gorated buckles, but the effect is that of much greater elegance. Lasts are medium, neither exag-
are not so high as usual. Seatedly short or long, and heels
A MILLINERY NOVELTY.
mle, grey.
The pointed shoe has had its vague in Paris, but to all intents; The knitted silk scarves still and purposes its popularity is on
A charming millinery novelty swathe the neck of the weman the wate. and the round-toed her suir, shoe, short of ramp and relatively
has just made its appearance. heel. is appear- who wears no fur un Scarves of plain crepe de Chine high of
ing again. These lend themselves This consists of small. close-fitting hats fashioned of finely-dressed the shoulders hang from
admirably to the sandal form as
the closed form, or kid, dyed in exquisite shades of and evening
1. well as u
beaver, fawn, or gorgeous printed scarves
ankle shoe, which, as the epithet place their decorative
large sprays of floral mounts afternoon and evening costumes, indicates, covers the entire foot Copper colour, and trimmed with
up to the ankle bone.
The "pump" type of shoe is made of painted leather, touched and sometunts even go so far as to brighten a serge morning trucks worn, and it is often adorned with splashes of gold or metallic
with large buckles of enamel, paint.
Hats of this description, als Marabout is being used as a tortoishell or carved wool. Black trimming for everything from patent leather is coming back though introduced in the first material for place for Riviera wear, have be- chiffon into vague, as, wool brocarie coats evening gowns.. It appears in all shoes, and kid is used in a num-un to enjoy a vogue both in the fashionable colours, and the ber of colcurs, such as royal Paris and London, and are now very latest idea is to bem 3 gown blue, scarlet. with a wide band of marubuut green and brown. which shades from brown to
beige,
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or from navy blue to light blue. It is really very pretty.
Feather trimming in general is having a great vogue, Ostrich bandings edge tunics, scarves, and skirts. The smart thing is to. match the ostrich trimmigk on your gown to your fan.
to mukt any Ribbons quantity of accessories and trim- mings. Ruched ribbons are sewn spirally into round notifs, which are joined to overlap each other and form cuffs and collars on coats, of bards for the hems of gowns.
THIS WEEK'S RECIPE.
A Quickly Made Pudding.
APRICOT CROUTES. Required: Tinned or bottled apricots, bread, sugar, butter.
Cut some rounds cf bread, about the size of the top of a tumbler, about a quarter of an inch thick, spread with butter and put into a greased glass casserole or fire- proof dish. Put! half an" apricot, cut side up, on each croute, place a small piece: of butter in each, and sprinkle Iwith sugar. Bake in a moderate üven for about 15 minutes. Sift Bugar over and serve at once.
Note. If available, cream may be served with this quickly made Tweet,
magenta.
NEW V-NECK.
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This is the new V-neck blouse. It should be made of rrepe de chine, of course, and the neck and sleeves bound in grosgrain ribbon.
An embroidered motif can be worked below the point of the V, if decoration is wanted.
chosen for wear with tailored Toilettes.
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of jade-green estrich feathers held in place by a rhinestone buckle? Who can
SIMPLE DRESS.
A simple dress with en- Amiderent magram.
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the. resist a pair of gold tissue garters thinnest silver tissue, or a pair finished with of beige garters lined with blue and finished with spray of! forget-me-nots? Well. it can't be done. One must have a pair of garters, even it they have to
be worn below the knee in oferi
to keep them from showing' For the South of France, hats through the clinging lines of one of the Season's new sheath of white kid, trimmed with white kid flowers, are going to be ex-gowns. tremely popular, a pretty variety of the same idea being sports hats made of white or pale-hued kid, trimmed with leather foliage or flowers, painted in brilliant tones of colour,
FOR THE TROUSSEAU,
There is a new and de- lightful fabric being used for sports sweaters. It is 1 mixture of mohair and fibre silk in a delightful two-toned weave that.. resembles a filet stitch. Carried out in chequered designs, showing such pretty combinations as Davy and tile blue, light and dark almond green, shades of gold and poppy red, the newest of these sweaters are made in the fashionable cross-over style, with a deep band that ties on one hip-the long roll collar. being of a plain selfcolour..
--- Other smart sweaters of the overblouse style show mohair backgrounds with Persian stripes of fibre silk that not only impart a contrast of colour, but make the most interesting design.
FASHION NOTES.
Flesh coloured moira is made into an effective evening gown, with a pink satin girdle tied in a big bow on each hip.
Smart shoes for evening have very high heals while those for daytime are much less extreme.
White Hanne! skicts frequently have wide bands of colour--bril- tant orange, red, or green, appli- qued to the bottom of the hem.
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Voile is greatly liked for dainty lingerie and is combined with hands of plain colour, or with thej finest of laces
A vanity caso of black patent) leather is oral in shape and is fned with pearl-grey moire silk.;
White. is of course the most popular shade for evening frocks. but delicate pink is gaining in favour, particularly with the de-
butantes.
White flannel blouses mono- grammed in black are smart for sport wear. They are worn with dark or with white pleated skirts.
All shades of yellow and orange are popular in taffeta for dancing and dinner frocks. There is a tendency to combine yellow and| orange advantageously.
Fut borders edze smart gauntlets of antelope skin that lace instead of suap in the usual; +fashion.
Here it is--the long rester that extends belvic the normal waistline. It nuty be of contrusting material, a brocade, em- broidered wet and Irish or filet lace combined.
"DECORATIVE CHINA. enables one to send a painted
cloth to the laundry.
Candle or table shades bearing the same design. painted in
It is one of fashion's latest water-colours, make a charming whims for the tea and breakfast completing touch to the winter. sable cloths or table mats to tea-table. All-over beaded dresses are amats to match the china. good choice for the traveller as they may be packed in small space and require no pressing.
THE TURBAN FOR EVENING - WEAR.
Evening head-dresses, when they exist at all, Take one form, that of the turban. They are usually of cloth of gold or silver, and may have few strands of bright-coloured braid twisted into their intricate folds.
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The adaptability of the turban to all types is its great virtue. It may be wide at the sides, or high in front, it may follow the lines of the head closely with tightly stretched folds, or it may be loosely swathed and puffy in effect. It may stretch tight back from the temples or soften the face with a swelling side
outline,
CHIC HATS & LATEST FOOTWEAR.
THE newest ideal in dress The closer you can approach directs attention to the top brimlessness, the smarter the hat. Only the most tailored trimming and the toe.
Suddenly, for some unaccount is permitted. But these hats able reason, the tailored suit and must be made on perfect lines, frock, have descended upon us just as the suit must. and are offering such relief from our negligee attire of the past
With every costume is a com- few seasons that they are taking plete set of taffeta underthings to match. A slip and bloomers, all before them
So uniform is the suit expected scalloped at the edge and bem- to be that the distinguishing stitched at the top, just matching feature of the newest costume the shade of the flannel frock must be the hat and the footwear. with which they are to be worn. The cloche refuses to be ousted There is a soft French felt hat for in favour of the less severe'type. each frock.
For one of the modern sparsely farnished white washed studio To accompany a "Blue Bird" living rooms, with its plain design painted on white china, a polished gate-legged table, an plain, white linen cloth with a Italian breakfas: table set of hemstitched edge is adorned with plain cream-coloured chins, a stencilled or embroidered bird arranged upon an Italian drawn-
of birds or dying group
to thread worked deep cream linen harmonise or to exactly corres- cloth, looks specially in keeping pond, the pattern on the chins if completed with one of the pic- being carefully traced and trans- turesque orange pottery jara-s ferred to the cloth with the Help facsimile of the ripe fruit-with ota sheet of carbon paper and a wee spray of orange blossom for
the knob, to hold
breakfast sharply-pointed pencil
marmalade, and a rush basket A single bird or flight of birds filled with oranges or grapes as in outline stitch is very quickly centrepiece.
done, and the result is charming. Or, instead of cream-coloured while if stencilling be employed china, choose orange coloured the work is easily carried out in plates and cups, with deep oil colour mixed with a special string-coloured Italian linen washable medium." which table mats.
PRETTY AMATEUR ACTRESS.
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Miss Elizabeth Gordan Hunna, granddaughter of the late Mark Hanna, is the moving spirit of the Dramatic Club of Washington, an organization of young sceicly people
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