EVERYDAY SUMMER FROCKS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 300, 12 September 1908, Page 11

EVERYDAY SUMMER FROCKS.

For everyday wear, says an Australian woman, nothing equals prints and cambrics, and already I have soon some charming frocks carried out in these materials. One, which was destined for a young bride's trousseau, was a palo mauve and white-striped batiste; the full skirt was laid in broad, flat folds at tho hips,' with two rather wide tucks at the hem. Tho bodice was a simple shirt, with a yoko, and a broad pelisso frill of tho material down the centre, narrowing to the waist. Tho turnback cuffs and turndown collar wore of fine white linen, edged with similar frills on a narrow scale. There is a decided revival of the turndown collar, and for our hot summer days nothing could bo more cool and comfortable. But it is a difficult fashion for anyone past the roundness of youth. Nothing would be more unsightly than a thin withered neck rising from a soft muslin turnover collar. For those women who do not wish to bare their necks tho turnover collars will be accompanied by a stand-up band. Another revival this year is the fullypouched front, coming, no doubt, as tho reaction from the tight-fitting princesse robes; the fact is that the pouched blouse is qnito allowable again. Indeed, tho blouse, which is appearing in many forms and guises, shows no sign of its decrease, which lias been foretold again and again. FROM MUSIC-HALL TO OPERA. An interesting rccruit to tho Govent Garden stage is Mile. Cavalieri, who made her debut this season. Originally a music-hall artist, she is now accepted as an exponent,, of intenso operatic characters, and has made her best success in " La Tosca," chiefly, it must be confessed, by the intensity of her acting rather than by any superfluity of vocal excellence. She is undoubtedly a fine actress (says the London correspondent of an Australian paper). She is also an extremely beautiful woman, and, further, she'wears on occasion £100,000 worth of diamonds, and has others of equal value deposited in safe keeping. In " Fedora " the other night she positively blazed with jewels, and that fact, and tho gorgeousness of her frocks and her great beauty of faco and figure, of course discounted any trifling vocal deficiency that may have been observable.