Ladies' Column.

Lake County Press, Issue 2167, 2 May 1907, Page 2

Ladies' Column.

Latest London & Paris Fashions, BY MibS ADA MIiLLi.IV [All Eights Reseuveij.] A DRES3 FOB THE BUSINESS WOMAK. THE height of the holiday sPiSUn '» past, but people are still coming and going. The reopening of sehoo s nkes many" families home again, and V"* 1 occupations forbid others from enjoying aiij longer the charms of seaside or count.; but on the other hand there arc those who, lor one reason or another, defer the.r holidays until after the rush, and arc only now taking u well-earned rest from the ordinary daily routine. The return from holiday making, no matter at what season of the ycai it occurs, usually means a revision ul Uic wardrobe, for unless the holiday consists ol house-visiting, it is the custom witli many to include in their outfits clothes that have seen best days and can be 'finished off' away

from home. The business woman will probably require a new dress for everyday wear on her return home, and a simple model that may possibly meet with her approval is sketched in the "full-length figure herewith, which illustrates a dress of black nun's veiling, with a plain skirt, stitched many times at the foot, and a crossed bodice, pleated on the shoulders and decked with a few velvet buttons. Similar buttons, but rather smaller, Kin up the long cuffs that meet the upper part of the full sleeves, and the vest is of fine black laeo insertion and hair-pin embroidery. This, of course, could be exchanged for a vest of light luce. The hem of the skirt should be stiffened with an interlining of tailor-canvas, as this keeps the skirt firm and in good shape, the stitching also helping to bring about the same results. The umbrella skirt is another simple and good model that is easily made and economical, and looks well with a single row of velvet buttons up the front; and the effect is particularly good when the buttons are continued up the front of the blouse-bodice of material to match, arranged with a centre box-pleat and pleats on either side. The advantage that a vest holds over a yoke is that the former, being independent, enables a change to be made from time to time iu the aspect of the bodice, the vest being now li'dit, now dark, now neutral, now touched up with colour. SAILOF MATS FOR TME AUTUMNYear by year the übiquitous sailor hat takes its place among summer fashions, and now it promises to remain with us throughout the autumn and winter, the new consignments of millinery for the coining months including a large variety of sailor lints in felt and velvet as well as in straw. The autumn sailor hat is, like the model we have been wearing since the dawn of spring, short of brim and fairly high in the crown, and is trimmed with a broad band of ribbon and bi™ bow of the same, or, in its smartest character, with a single handsome plume curling over the brim or a couple of feathers dexterously arranged at the left side, where the indispensable bandeau lifts the hat from the head and yields the requisite tilt dc-

mantled by fashion, the hat poised at an acute angle being still the one most beloved by fashion-makers and followers. Sketched here is a simple sailor hat typical of what bids fair to be the most popular mode of tlio autumn. It is of coarse, soft, black straw, trimmed witli black and white striped ribbon, bunched up high at the left side. Similar hats in wine-red straw trimmed with self-coloured or old-pink ribbon are very good to look at, a liberal amount of ribbon serving to decorate the bandeaux. Sailor hats of plain, coloured felt, which ring the changes with those of straw, look very well with ribbon-velvet sashes and pompons; and the velvet sailor hat finds a becoming garniture in wide, soft chine ribbon, or satin ribbon, and ostrich feathers ; also in big fullblown roses of silk. THE MOIRETTE UNDERSKIRT. One of the most important aids to flic succe« of it skirt is a well-cut petticoat which* unless carefully fitted and kept about theirgionofthewaist.isapttoconsidcrabb mwt.the anp.arat.ee ot the outer skirt. \oirete is'accorded a place ot honour Hon of a petticoat, for the reason that it o esses just enough stillness to prove a,to the skirt and a*, ; c ~,-„■ time is soft and smooth to the toutu n'ui deod of the sateen-hkc limpness that eladvantagc Of rendering a pettit „, eliding and impcnd.ng the tree ,„ ~V ill.' knees. Again, moiiette ST WtJ tlin sill, The newest „'tits are made with side-front placket, "ml arc quite close-litt.ngm. the upper part a„d cut with an ample flow below, einphasjsed bv Mils and llouuces.