Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1911 — THE BOUDOIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOUDOIR

EVERYTHING IN WHITE

ONLY COLOR FASHION SANCTIONS FOR THE SUMMER. Serge and Mohair for Tailored Models and Linen in Plain One-Piece Frocks —Daintiness Keynote of the Styles. This year fashion has put the emphasis—in wear —on white. Eirery summer, of course, brings white to the fore, but this craving for cool, immaculate white usually expresses itself in diaphanous frocks and blouses and in linen tailored wear for the street. But this year the coat and skirt suit of white serge or mohair will be worn where in other summers linen has been the rule; and though the white serge suit may not be a whit cooler than the one of dark blue, it looks a deal cooler; and that, to be sure, is the main consideration. The white serge suit for summer days has no lining and is made in the lightest, coolest way. Most of these models are trimmed with wide white braid, or with stitched bands and facings of .white silk or satin. The white mohair suits are especially dainty and are really as cool as the linen models, with the advantage of shaking the dust more readily; nor does the mohair suit require the frequent pressings that the linen must have to keep it in presentable shape. Another white fad this summer will be the little white linen frock in rather severe tailored style. These frocks are made with extreme, even exaggerated simplicity, a touch of Irish lace or a little hand embroidery being the only trimming permitted. The white linen frock pictured is typical of the best types of these costumes, and this little frock may be worn in collarless style, as the photograph shows, or there may be a gulmpe of white tucked net or Irish lace. One of the prettiest of all the white linen frocks exhibited thus far was seen In a Fifth avenue window the other morning; and beside the frock of white linen there was another, identically like It, but made of pale-buff linen. These frocks had straight, rather high walsted skirts and simple little bodices with seamless kimono sleeves, but the feature was the embroidered scalloping, done In self-color. Scallops outlined the square neck opening and the edge of the sleeve.— The Housekeeper.