Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — FADS AND FANCIES of FASHION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FADS AND FANCIES of FASHION

CHARM IN DAINTINESS QUALITY THAT MAKES FOR SUCCESS OF THE MATINEE. AH Things Considered, a Figured Material Is the Most Desirable for the Woman of Moderate Purse —Choice Is a Wide One. As a rule charm of color and mate-/ rial combined with daintiness of finish have more to do with the success of a dainty matinee than elaborate ornamentation or subtlety of line. Among the models not to be readily copied are the little French sacks of fine lingerie stuff, hand made, delicately embroidered, inset with lace. Charming things they are, too, these fine lingerie matinees with their coquettish ribbon bows, and often a loose lining of India silk matching the color of the bows aqd providing an additional warmth without de tractlng from the sheer daintiness of the sack.

But the really fine embroidered lingerie matinee is an extravagance, and the lingerie model that is not fine is a failure, so the woman who wants a cheap sack, requiring little trimming and yet attractive, is likely to buy a figured material. Some of the figured white stuffs are admirable for

the purpose—embroidered Swlsses and cross-barred batistes and lawns. But here again one meets the requirement of fineness. Fortunately, even the best materials of this sort are not alarmingly expensive, and so little trimming Is necessary that the cost of the sack may be slight. The rule to be observed in babies* clothes holds good in matinees. Trimming may be unpretentious, but It must be fine If the garment Is to be succesful, and coarse, careless work robs a matinee, of -every atom of smartness or attractiveness. There may be only a-line of beading as flnIsh for neck and sleeves, but the beading should be of good quality and effective design, and it should be applied by hand. Figured dimity makes a delightful and practical summer matinee, wearing well, laundering well, needing but little trimming, and costing a mere song. It Is, perhaps, the best of the

flowered cotton stuffs, coming as It does in delicious little designs of dainty colored sprigs and flowerlets on barred or checked or white grounds. Valenciennes, Cluny or fine Swiss embroidery will do for trimming, and there are some attractive sacks in which a croohet insertion or the coarse open Irish beading or Venise is used. There are pretty flowered and crossburred lawns, too, but their designs are usually large and do not have the quaint daintiness which makes dimity such an admirable matinee material.

MARY DEAN.

Matinee In Pink Crepe.