Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — TO BE WHITE SUMMER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO BE WHITE SUMMER

THAT MEANS FRESH, COOL AND BECOMING TOILETTES. Also Practical Tub Frocks That Are Exceedingly Chic —Vivid Colors Are Offered, However, for Those Who Prefer 'lt is a long time since summer frocks were so alluring as those that are being shown for the coming season. This is to be a white summer, so fashion authorities say, and a white summer means fresh, cool and becoming toilettes. Even white wool has a way of looking cool, and the average woman on a hot day will look cooler In white serge than in colored gauze, however she may feel. —Naturally, colorß will not be taboo: All who vant them may wear thdm, not only in soft, summery tints, but in vivid hues, startling to the eye, for never has this generation seen color combinations and designs more brilliantly audacious than are shown In

many of the new fabrics, particularly among the silks. There are Oriental bordure stuffs that are beautiful and not too bizarre; and some of the Oriental designs translated by way of the old Jouy prints are really delightful if discreetly used. ■* Even where the Oriental Idea Is lost, brilliant color is frequently used, and odd and daring color-schemes Are exploited. Parisian dressmakers and milliners revel in this sort of thing, but such revels are dangerous for the designer who has not the French color-sense, who is not truly an And so. one comes back to the original proposition, that a white summer is a kindly thing and that the wise woman will take advantage of the fact that white is exceedingly chic as well as becoming. Moreover, it is

practical. Of course, it means cleans ing and tubbing, but It will cleans* and it will tub, and that is more than can be said for a large per centage of the colored fabrics, if they are dainty enough to be pretty. The woman who yields to the lure of the delicate pinks and blues and lilacs and greens, or of the delightful, flowered cottons, which are so tempting in the first spring showing after a winter of dark skies and dark frocks, may have an attractive summer wardrobe, but it will be neither practical nor so economical as that of the woman’s who turns her back upon the flowery spring lines and buys the white that is not so bewitching in the hand, but is so eminently satisfactory on the back.

Pompadour Marquisette.