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WHEN WINTER TURNS TO SUMMER

THE BORDERLINE COSTUME

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more than one, costume that be termed “borderlina”- It (will be the choice: "when in, forenoðn's shopping in to be followed by a matinees when an afternoon affair.is, to merge into theatre or a semi-formal evening, and there is to be no opportunity to change. Soma such costanie should be choren with this idea in mind, 'and it should be visualized in the two settings before it is purchased. Costumes of this sort may be divided into two classes the frock, worn under a amart cont or wrap; and the costume ensemble sult. that seems, in a way, fashion's answer to the problem of the border ling outfit. And while there have always been times – when a gult proved unbecoming to many women, the present-day interpretation of this satisfactory mode almest universally becoming the result fashion of the long coat and one-piece dress or the long coal and the tunle blouse.

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the Fashions of the North

There Are Many Interesting Possibilities.

It may truthfully be said that when the bleak mid-winter produces frocks and suits and bathing apparel-fruikly resignet for mid-summer weather—it is a meeting of the extremes. There are muny who feel that the woman who summers in the South through the winter months And then summers through the summer la the North when it is really sumner, missen much in mkny ways, for sho really lives in a land of elernal sum- mer, and somehow sternal anything is, at times, lacking in appeal One cannot attribute the feeling to a desire for grapes that are hunging too high, for there seems to be an increasingly large number of wealthy folk-who have only to make a choice, then gratify it-who prefer the outdoor sports of winter to those of summer, at least during the winter montha And if women like colour and beaty and rich fabrics and trimmings and all the "whatever" that goes with them to make up the winter mode in clothes, then she can indulge to her heart's content, if she be either a stay-at-home or plans a vacation where wintor aports flourish. But while she is plan- ning her wardrobe she is keeping one. eye on the models that are designed for the South-she may even include some of the items and many of the detalia- In her ouffit. One may look both ways, and ofther way the vista in enticing, There are so many that stay at home that it is wholly unfair to talk wholly of "Palm Beach" fashions, yet they must be considered, for they are not only the mode of the fature, but they influence the mode of the present

Of Paramount Importance-Colour. It is only nasural that the insistent demand for colour in sports apparel, whether it be designed for Southern or Northern wour, should have its effect on winter modes, that are, even whon they acom stabilized, constantly chang Ing. We are getting a little relief from black, blue, brown, green and the seem- Ingly everlasting variations of henna, not only in the brilliant little hats that Are appearing everywhero, but in the latest models of winter fashiona. "And we hear insistent whisperings of the Jewel and rainbow shades; of the flower hades; of the pastels, the latter applied In the North to evening wear. It All help. It briglitens what is bound to seem to many a dreary stretch of (drabness, *und. It la prophecy, Expectation is, more often than not, the better part of pleasure.

Thereading attention is focused on the

guyly printed silk or crepe; she can introduce colour into her costume scheme in any one of a variety of ways. And the new print or the new colour will lend a touch of the future to what she has come to feel is a thing of the pust. "And there are many new acccs- sories-all- conceived in the current mude of the South that will At beautie fully, into hor scheme of things. · No excime, these days, for the woman who permits her wardrobe to grow musty, or to seem, in the smallest measure, of another period:

Concerning The Much Discussed

• "Flare. The supremacy of the straight-line silhouette has been gravely threatened for some months past, yet we must admit at the outset, the straight-line silhouette remains supreme, and it is. by virtue of its general becomingness that it does so. Everyone ran wear it;. and everyone cannot wear the silhouette that results from the flare, and that, is all there is to it. But the flare provides. 'a welcome and intriguing variation for hur who can wear it, and so we have many new models that show it. It does not take a fashion expert to recognizo the possible awkwardness of the very. short flared skirt when it becomes a part of the silhouette. There...is no'. denying the short skirt, foit is every- where apparent, even in the most. formal frocks, and it must be considered a fundamental, everything else built- Above it.

Sometimes the flare is Interpreted as, nwidened hemline, there being no apparent widening of the silhouetto. This is a step in the right direction for the multitude of women who cannot stand the broadening and shortening effect of the flare. Who will deny the statement that the very short, very narrow skirt in an abomination? Grato- ful, indeed, we should bo, for the ten- dency on the part of designers to intro- duce the inverted pleat; to use plasts In other ways; to very generally strive to achieve an appearance of slender-" ness, and at the same time. provide aysurance of comfort. As a rule all the, mechanism of the finto-pleats, flounces; ruffles, godots, draperies-

one: at the knee; or below the knee started between the walch and, the If there is any possibility st all of the ounce proving becoming is adopted. One point in everybody's' monts fit fnugly about them favour-bins remain slouder and gær. |

Everybody who has and overybody. who hasn't an ensemble something-or

hede called "natural," and it will be other will Include such an outfit in her one of the featured colours of spring: spring wardrobe, and if she is very up It will prove becoming to many," and it provide background for the embrel to dater she wil include several Not,

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Deries of widely varied origin that for the idea has touched everything are appearing-everywhere. We can the wardrobe from lingerid out Sp expeptowhite in the South new morning, afternoon and evening.

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As the same with the chittons Georgettés, especially, the perennially old, yet "avez naw, beaded mööbels that € luxurious," yet- restrained in their luxury,The new fashion of unbra fabrics many be included: In those that belong in the borderline class, for the depth of colour in the skirt makes them correct for the street, the paler tinter of the blouse are of the evening, shades" If carefully chosen, a clever and m dividual afternoon frock will do doty for any but the most formal evening Saffairgus

WHAT HALL THE

NEW FURNITURE BE?

Twice during every year it becomes Hopea season for furniture. These times are looked upon as cecasions by the housewife who budgets her expendi- tures and are of vast interest to the woman who is refurnishing or furnish ing for the first time, for they are "enfe”... times, which méang" that “ thể buyer, will enjoy a really substantial Having by buying when the law and the prostor at least a part of it are off. There is a business reason for this, and a logical one, and it has to do with the dull station when the fashions of one perlod are finished and the mode of another period is in the making. The Interim is devoted to the needs of the housewife, and sales of every household necessity_taka place. There is hardly a home in the average community that does not need, either a desk or a table, 'a group, a suite or a chair to hugrove, it, and if the purchase is to be success ful it must be the right group or table or chair. And since baying good furni- ture and no one should consider any thing else means considerable expenditure, the choice prosents a some what difficult problem There are so

mary many woods! So. "periods!" So many atyles!

the average, home-and. it is swith the average home that we have to do

the fundamentals are comfort, con venience and beauty Arst of all. There

is little attempt to apklave fine, offects, although what could be finer than the room where comforts and convenience „dwell?''"' While it is quite possible that the housewife may have Inherited valu- able, pieces and aspires to keep to the sama style in her own, selections, sho. -will not, if she is. Mraw A Varäge Woman, be financially able to satisfy her cray- ing for antiages. But it will be possible. for her to find places thafƐars/dup cates in everything but age di

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the difference:

Better to buy an adisīšteć done by a reputable cabit to take a chance, thesa may seem to be 'a gemeins the end and aim of the must always be pieces that, daninthiato associations of: happy hominess—a wing chair and a fireside stool before an open grate easy chair, and convenient light with table or smoke King stand; davauport, with end tables "and" lights"at" either gud;, the groupi

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it is as a whole that it greets us, not only been lived with but have long as a thing of parts. The antique of lived with each other; could tell stories, one period; the reproduction of another ware tongues given them have svoj the lacquered piece all these should be history of the commonplaces that are linked together by the exceptional life.. Your personal preferinta may be, hangings or the unsual rich-toned rug for plecos Spanish Italian or Oriental into a harmonious whole. And the idea in their inspiration; you may incline to of harmony need not presuppose In the early American; you may be intri possible expenditures, though if is gued by the quaintness of painted Zurn likely to call for thoughtful seakingture, or the formality of Old, English You will know when you find it, whether walnut may appeal

it be rug, drape, lamp or curtain, for And you must never be forgetful of it will thell with it appeal. It is the insidious charm of really beaut really much simplor to select all new woods There are many auch nach pieces than it is to. And now furniture lovely, in its Individual way. Maple that will fit in, as though It belonged,early American, fashioned into our with the old. It must harmonize and great grandmother's pieces, is delight complement, but it must not make the fol-for the young girl's bedroom, shall uld look shabby, even if it is. As the wa kay? room dull in /utself;; im years come and go we are likely to out lovelier when Thiere the sheen grow our homes, for fashiong change in of beautifal

Bhogany Ap homes as in trocks, though hardly with ||sional, pleca lacquer the appalling, frequency. We cannot placed. There wholly refurnish, but we can moderate. exquisitely decor . There is, if you will be understand it, thank. İtalya

rightly, a virtue in the thing that his things Teamraro the appearance of age. There is little" and sunny and that appealing in a room that is so Chinese have their place patently new that it shinet)Homey decorative furniture, and roomis do not shine as to furnishments, wood of doar dignity very beautiful. instead surfaces are time toned; there in the made a reproduction that, accent in'a mellowness and graciousness about its mellowness, rather than its dourness, the pieces that denoto age and use; And every place you buy should be care- there is, honestly, something really floe folly wrought better that, there be shabby bit that has an indubitable (dewer places than many this are cheap air of having been Ifred with. Things and have no other rúcommand should look as though they have

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