Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 239, Hammond, Lake County, 29 March 1912 — Page 9

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SHAPE OF A HAT IS WHAT COUNTS.

Accident Fails to Get Harry Knight's Nerve

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FADS AND FASHIONS

York. March 29.-

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season will, undoubtedly, be noted for the unusual vogue of taffeta. The shops are full of models showing- taffetas of every description employed as the principal material of the frocks. Unfortunately taffeta is difficult to manage in such a way as to avoid fusstness. Nine out of ten of the taffeta frocks shown in the shops are ungraceful and freakish. The tenth is undeniably charming, but the charm usually goes hand In hand with a high price, for it means material of beautiful quality and very skillful making-. Some of the new taffetas are really lovely, supple though never attaining the flowing suppleness of the crepes and satins, wonderfully light and lustrous, exquisite of line. The Jouy taffetas, which are quaint in the best sense of that word, are winning favorable attention, though chameleon effects still hold first place. Toile de Jouy or antique cretonne designs have invaded many classes of materials, and whether in cottons, chiffons, crepes.

radiums or taffetas have a distinct

charm, though they must be handled

knowingly to give satisfactory results and are quite hopeless if made up along

lines unsuited to their peculiar char acter. ' . . ,

This Is especially true of the Jouy taffetas. Many of the prettiest hare a

The coming; Turned up brims, bent into any shape

most becoming to the wearer, some

times nuiea in ironi, somenmes aou-

bled, are a distinctive detail, on the

ew hats. One model is caught back

willow-shaped ostrich plumes. Among

the most expensive of the new straws is a tagal with crepe-lilce surface and in a silver gray shade, with black in-

ide. One shown in a shop had for its' rimming wide loops of shot gray and

purple ribbon bent backward, a spray

of white crepe roses falling over the

brim on the right side.

Brush cockades of nondescript feath

ers are seen as the sole ornament on

fine white tagal straw hats with black upturned brims faced with satin, and

the floral clump of either roses, fu

chsias or copper colored dahlias is much favored for large hats of pedal straw with graduated up-turned brims.

Very pretty and comfortable are the

new two-ounce hats made of taffeta silk. The crown, brim , and trimming are usually of the same fabric, and with something like eighty-two shades of silk to choose from and with which

to form attractive combinations there is little likelihood of these dainty and

practical nats - showing a sameness.

ground trt white Checked or striped by hair lines of black, and over this sur

face quaint sprig designs in odd, soft

colors are scattered. Admirably qi

qurfnt little summer frocks these will

make for a certain type of wearer,

provided the frocks are made with ar

tistic skill.

The same is true of the Jouy radi

ums, chiffons, etc., but in a leas degree,

for here at least no hint of crisptness

complicates the problem. Jouy designs

in comparatively dark tones have ap

peared this season even in the filmiest of chiffons and are effectively combined with white or plain one-tone

chiffon. Often there is a deep border

of this Jouy design on a delicate one-

tone chiffon, with perhaps a bordering band of black or of one of the domi

nant colors in the Jouy design.

Among the taffetas attractive striped effects may be found, usually In white and color soft rose, dull old blue, vio

let, cherry, etc. These striped taffetas are successfully made up alone, but th French designers like to combine them

with plain taffeta, usually though not invariably in the color of the stripe and sometimes with changeable taffeta

in the stripe color shot with stripes

and perhaps one other tone. There are two sorts of "lingerie'

fabrics in the market now the heavier linens, crashes, -piques and bedford cords of which tailored costumes are

fashioned, and the clinging soft-as

chiffon stuffslike batiste, mull, voile

marquisette and crepe which go into the making of diaphanous frocks. There

is a fancy for garnishing even the tail ored costumes with quantities of lac

this season, and yards of . broad inser

tions of filet, Cluny and other heavy

laces make simply cut llnensuits very

dressy affairs, indeed.

The lines of such costumes follow th

lines prescribed for tailored suits o

worsted, silk and monair, and coats are

short and gay in cutaway effect, ove

straight, narrow skirts short enough

to reveal the feet. Of rourse, with all such summer costumes white "footwear is the requirement, and this season very trim boots -of . white buckskin with all tops buttoned with pearl but- - tons, are considered particularly rhlo. These white buckskin boots are much prettier than the white canvas styles, for the soft buckskin fits instep and ankle like a glove, and the leather conforms in mote supple fashion to the lines of daintily shaped' sole and heel than does the stiff canvas. There are also pale tan suede boots and creamy satin boots for wear with lingerie costumes in the new champagne and ecru colorings which are particularly fashionable this season. "With the very fashionable ones, lin

gerie materials just off- clear white

in other words, in tones of cream,

champagne and ecru are more in favor

than white stuffs, which seem to suggest the ministrations of a laundress. These creamy tan shades are very subtle and very smart, but somehow they lack the freshness and purity of clear white, which is at its best against a background of summer green or the blue of a summer sea. One or two ecru batiste costumes on a clubhouse ver

anda would - -distinguished

Harry Knight, who will drive a ai

cylinder Lexington racing car In the second annual 500-mile International j Sweepstakes race at the Indianapolis i Motor Speedway next Memorial Day. ! Knight was a victim of one of the most thrilling accidents erer seen at the Speedway, whe.. during the last 500-mile race he skidded into the pit walls and demolished his car together with that of Herb Lytle and escaped practically uninjured. Knight ascribed the cause of his accident to the fact that he was trying to turn bis oar sufnoientlr to keep from running erer a mechanician who bad fallen from a ir Met ahead of him In the race. Am effort was made to obtain a Carnegie

The oar

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wbloh he will drive nest Memorial Day

t the side with one of the new black!19 "Iwllar in type to the car wMea he

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GERMAN AUTO 10 START

SPENCER WI8HART ENTER Hl MERCEDES IN 500-MILE RACE.

Wealthy Young Sportsman to Drlwa Own Machine in Long Raoe at Indianapolis Speedway on . Memorial Day.

Spencer B. Wlshart, of Port Chester. New York, the wealthy young sports maa who drives Mercedes racing cars, bas entered the 500-mile International Sweepstakes race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next Memorial Day. Wish art's entry names the same car

wbich the Easterner drove in the last

The possibilities for achieving novel 500-mile race, finishing fourth. The effects are greater now than ever be- ' D01" oI tn cylinder is 5.1 lnohes and fore, and so the temptation to increase the piston stroke is 7.1, giving a piston

th immber of spring and summer hats' displacement of 583 cubicv' inches.

n one's wardrobe has grown corre

spondingly.

The brims of these taffeta hats are

faced with silk of a bright and becoming shade, and the same color is used to line the Inside of the crown. The. outside part is trimmed in some shapely contrasting color of taffeta. For example, a dark blue seashore hat which

is to be worn well down over the head has a two-toned pink lining. The only stiffness is supplied by fine wire sewed in at the seams of the melon-shaped

crown.

These little hats may be bent and

turned into any shape, and when on the head there is nothing to spoil the

wliioh is seventeen cubio inches below the limit of the race. Wisbart's ear is almost a duplicate of the Mercedes entered by Ralph DePalma. Both of these cars made a wonderful showing at Savannah In the recent Vanderbilt and Grand Prise races; Wishart finishing third in the Vanderbilt, while DePalma finished second lu the Vanderbilt and third in the Grand Prize. At this time last year there had been but four entries made to the first 500-mile race, so the prospects for the second one seem even better than

coiffure or make on feel conscious of! those of 1911. The other entrie- to supporting a heavy weight. the race consist of two StUtZ cars. en-

Feathers are favored beyond all , tered hv the Ideal Motor Car Corn-

other trimmings for the dress hat. No ; price seems too extravagant to invest

in these hat trimmings. i

FLORENCE FAIRBANKS.

Times Pattern Department

DATXY FASHION HINT.

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- Ladles' Waist. Iter are so many varieties 1b this pat tera that one may hare several waists and ass the same pattern. For a very

plain waist there isbe centre front dos ing, turndown collar and short sleeve, or a little more fancy one has the side front closing, long slevf with eu?f, and standing collar, while the really dressy one has the revere attached and a frill of lace, which gives a great deal of style to the garment. This pattern, 3.683, is cut in 7 sizes 32 to 44 Inch bust measure: 2tt yards 30

and inch material, with 1T4 yards insertion

and ',4 yard of contrasting roods 14 or

more inches wide, are -eqcired.

This psttern can be obtained hv end-

IJ? cents to the office of this paper.

pany, of Indianapolis; a Fiat, entered

by E. E. Hewlett, of Los Angeles. Cal..

with Joe Matson named to drive; two ! Case cars, entered by the J. I. Case ;

ThreBhing Machine Company, of Racine, Wis. Harvey Herrick and Louis Disbrow have been nominated as the pilots of the two Case entries. There are also two Nationals and a Lexington. The fact that such famous drivers

have been entered early in the year, and that all the cars so far named are among the foremost racing machines in the world, makes it seem certain that the field of starters next May will have even more class than the bunch that took the word from starter Wagner last year. Owing to the fact that there havebeen so many early requests for aeatB and parking space reservations for the next race, the Speedway manage-, tnent opened the seat sale on January 16. From that time on seats may be obtained for the next Memorial Day event either in person or by mail. Indianapolis hotels have been besieged with reservation requests already and are booking their rooms for visitors next May. The Speed wa

has arranged to provide 4,000 rooms in private homes in addition to the hotel accommodations, so that a crowd of 150,000 persons may be cared for easily. One of the interesting features In connection with the next 500-mile race is that, the foreign manufacturera have taken a greater interest than

ever before and many requests for particulars have been received from European motor-car makers. The entry list so far for the race shows that eight American cars have been entered as against three foreign machines. All of the foreign cars are privately owned, DePalma's mount being the property of E. J. Schroeder of New York; Matson's Fiat being owned by E. E. Hewlett, of Los Angeles, and Wishart's Mercedes his .own personal property. This leada the racing enthusiasts in the country to believe that motor car racing is becoming more of a sporting proposition than ever before, and eventually it

I may become a competition entered . only by cars owned privately without 1 affiliation with factories or dealers.

J The Greatest Display of Men's Fine Suits this store has ever Shown. . . .. . i . We invite you to come, if for no other reason 'than- to look at what we have for Easter. We like to show it. It's the

Greatest Stock of High Grade Clothes for young men and progressive lhatuVe men in the world.

"Anything you buy here - can be returned at any time if you prefer not to keep it; either before or after Easter. Special Values Finely tailored silk lined Suits at $15 to $30.00. A selection of fabrics from the leading mills in new novelty weaves and shades

0rwn productions of the famous Euclid Brand Clotkes Banner Brand Clothes Pennant Brand Clothes Pelhaxn Brand Clothes all sizes and proportions Hew Uaster Mats, Cravats, Shirts, Shoes, &c

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