Ladies’ Column.

Lake County Press, Issue 2392, 7 September 1911, Page 2

Ladies’ Column.

FASHION AND THINGS FEMININE. By Miss Ida Medlar. (Copyright.) REST-GOV/NS AND OTHER THINGS. It is fortunate that fashion favours tire short walking skirt, for every woman knows the inconvenience of a long walking skirt on a muddy day

and ihe extravagance of such a skirt in the lons' run, for it is quickly cut throush at the edge through contact with wet pavements and thus becomes shabby-looking very soon. The long skirt is doubly inconvenient where a woman, in addition to being compelled to spare a hand to lift it from the mud, is. besides, hampered with a muff, hand-bag, and sundry parcels, and called upon, possibly, to carry ait open umbrella The chances are

that, thus encumbered, she will allow either the muff or one of the parcels to slip from her grasp unnoticed. 1 he huge, limp muffs, of the present day, especially those made of soft, sleek fur, such as fox’s are particularly- prone to slip away from the wearers without intimating their absence in any way at the time. Being thin and soft, they arc not missed until a sudden thought recalls them — and then alas! it is too late. We are told that oyer two thousand muffs were taken recently, within four ot live weeks, to a lost property office—which should he warning enough to those who read to wear their muffs henceforth by a neck-chain or ribbon. Pretty little ribbons for the purpose are those of black moire, a quarter of an inch or half an inch

wide —ribbons that can, of course, be bought by the yard. The ribbon may-

be threaded through the muff and the ends sewn firmly together, the muff-chain thus joined being slipped over the head, or a more convenient plan is to attach the ribbon-ends to a ring and swivel, as the slipping over process, which is inconvenient in the case of a large hat, is thus avoided. Among dainty little _ muffchains arc those made of sections of moire ribbon joined by steel beads. Turning from the out-door wear to home-dresses, some pretty things are to be seen in the way of tea-gowns, convalescent robes, and boudoir wrappers, made of cashmere and soft silk. The rest-gown illustrated is of | pale blue cashmere, the chief ornament being a very deep collar, the lower part of which is composed of bands of coarse lace insertion, while

a frill of lace runs all round. The double sleeves arc also trimmed with insertion. This gown works out charmingly in pale pink silk. The quantity of double-width cashmere or other fabric, 46-inch wide, required for the gown is six yards. A VELVET BLOUSE.

A large number of the prettiest blouses continue to be built on the lines of the popular kimono blouse that forms so many of the prevailing bodices. Few fashions are simpler or more charming than the one-piece demi-toilette blouse of black ninon. cut round and low in the neck, and finished merely with a border of silk or bead embroidery, the sleeves terminating at the elbows with embroidery to match. The- very simplicity of such a blouse, made without any fulness whatever, is a charm in itself.

All sorts of substances are adapted to the creation of blouses modelled on one-piece line, which require, of course, double-width material, the feature of the kimono design being absence of shoulder seam. When single-width material only is available however, a blouse cut on the kimono

. necessarily be seamed a“lte U an 'effective addition. Note ,’ r nld-rose in color, seamed on S Vf.oSldcrs and alons the outer Slcn^ndtSrSiriotv.al with narrow Valenciennes lace, the cuffs and. sleeves corresponding. and the chemisette being of. the spouea net This is a charming pattern for single-width materials, and works out delightfully in black, vclve . and in Wedgwood blue, also m cloth an satin stuffs, plain or figured. In-der-sleevcs of net could, of course, be added if desired. Of velvet or velveteen a 4 yards will be needed, and one var d of double-width net.