Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — FANCIES AND FADS OF FASHION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FANCIES AND FADS OF FASHION

By Julia Bottomley

Country Costume for Many Sports A costume of moderately heavy washable cotton answers the purposes of the athletic girl who goes in for all the summer sports. With an ample income and a zest for clothes one may dress for golf, far walking, for tennis, and all the rest of it, in special outfits designed for each sport, but there is no especially good reason for it. The “pastime suits” and hats introduced this season are appropriate forall sorts of outdoor wear. Two or three of them will see the average girl through the summer, and they are to be used for .general outing wear. A cotton khaki skirt in white and a cotton corduroy sports coat In blue are combined In the suit shown. No better choice for the skirt, as to color, can be made, for white stands the severest test of the laundry. Corduroys may be had in all thb fashionable

colors —light green, gold, rose, and blue among others. The skirt in this, as in other pastime suits, is of medium width, straight hanging and finished at the bottom with a cuff of material like the coat. It fastens at the left of the front with buttons and buttonholes. The coat has a collar and belt of the white material, and the cuffs and pockets are piped with it. It is a pretty fancy to have the buttons in the two colors used, but in this instance, as in many others, they are of plain white bone or pearl. Such a suit is to be worn with a plain shirtwaist, and dimity is a fine choice in well-fitting brimmed hats White or white with colored border for waists of this kind is made up with plain cuffs and collar and worn with ties of narrow ribbon. A wide choice, In well-fitting brimmed hats makes it possible to put the finishing touch to the pastime suit with the right style accent for each wearer.

Veils and Furs for Midsummer Airy midsummer veils, made to float wflth every light breeze that blows, and to suggest coolness, are affected by the summer glrL They seem hardly made for association with cozy-looking fur pieces but are found side by side with what are called summer furs in the wardrobe of the up-to-date followers of fashion. But these two are not so incongruous as they seem; before the hours of a summer’s day have all rolled away both of them may prove a very good reason for existence. The new veils are sometimes the sole .trimming for midsummer hats, and they are made in fascinating patterns, in white or black mostly. A white hat of satin becomes a background for a veil of brilliant black in a lace and net pattern. Half of the veil is sometimes of plain net and the remainder of lace, worn in the effect of a harem veil. A white Veil on a black hat is occasionally managed with much cleverness, but the white veil on a white hat is a joy of midsummer, sure to please every one. Summer furs are made in small capes of ermine or moleskin or combinations of these, and in scarfs of

ermine, fox, moleskin, and in jermine combined with these other furs. They are a fad, or course, but every one is ready to forgive an inconsistency when it is charming. Real fox skins, in white, are expensive, and ermine is a royal fur. But furriers are wonderfully clever In using other pelts to imitate both these hlgh-prtced varieties, to the entire satisfaction of those who wear them. A very small per cent of neckpieces classed as fur or ermine are really entitled to these names. Other furs masquerade with such good success under these titles that they lose their Identity. Moleskins are not rare furs but so much work is involved in making them up that summer furs of moleskin command a high price. With the lightest and most summery of apparel fashion decrees that summer furs and therefore so be it.