Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1901 — THE SUMMER GOWNS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SUMMER GOWNS.

SEEN AT THEIR BEST IN-PRAC-TICAL USE. They Made a Fine Display Earlier in the Season in the Shop Windaw®, but Are Only Seen at Best Advantage When Shown on Their Wearers.

New York correspondence:

UMMER gowns are now at their best, since they are to be seen on women, and surely the stylish dress parades bear out well the early promise of the show windows and rooms. The elaborateness of sleeves and skirts, together with the license for complexity that usually pre-, vails in summery fabrics aids much in effecting a most attractive variety. In the fine array is not. after all, a great deal that is brand new, the impression to the contrary that is given being due to the display’s unending variety. In a season when do wnri gh t new styles are Advanced

In large numbers the dressmakers may stick safely to a few distinct types, but when accepted novelties are so few as they ate just now it is small wonder

that the gowns of a score of fashionably dressed women have very little-in common. Since new fabrics, too, are not numerous, resort is had to a host of familiar ones, though the weavers keep the latter from seeming old by an increase of delicacy or beauty in the goods. A new feature of linen dresses is the very-Stylish use of sage green and greenish gray, both shades that make up handsomely wljen trimmed with lace or stitched bands of the goods. These dresses usually are made with a Spanish flounce banded with a stitched fold of the goods. The waist, on the shirt waist order, has a front plastron of white mull or tucked lawn outlined with lace or embroidery run with black velvet. Suits of the mercerized linen in those new green shades are made for dress-up wear in skirt and bolero trimmed iace, a fancy white shirt waist coming beneath the jacket. One of these suits appears in

There’s no end to the lace-trtmmed gowns of mnslin. lawn, mull and organdie.. Handsome gowns of flowered organdie are beautifully trimmed with black lace and ecru Idee insertion. Black lac® is a feature of many such dresses, .giving a look of stylishness that white or ecru shades do not provide. Flowered organdies usually are large and sprawling, and when made with a tucked Spanish flounce banded with black lace insertion, flounce edge finished with black lace, look very handsome. White dotted net is worn on the street and usually is made over a lawn drop skirt. These dresses usually are finished with several tiny ruffles edged with narrow black satin ribbon: White mull gowns are edged with naprow Persian ribbon and gain newness thereby. Embroidered and lace beading is another trimming that is used extensively on wash dresses. This is usually run through with black velvet or delicate ribbons. Gowns with three or four handsome lace flounces are coming in. The lace must be of the very finest and usually is of a delicate cream shade. The left hand dress of the next picture was one of these. It was white linen lawn and cream duchess lace. Many delicately colored mulls are made , ? up in this way, the waist finished off with a handsome lace collar or fichu of lace to match that on the skirt. More often the lace put on lawns, and a deal of it is employed, appears in some scheme of deep banding. The other gown of this picture illustrates this trick, its tucked white lawn being finished with Valenciennes insertion and appliquedwith black lace.. The bertha was white lace, the V of plain lawn set off with cretonne flowers. Though little jackets of taffeta, usually ’ much-tucked, have been overdone, handsome coats of black taffeta and louisine silk cut away in front and with postilion backs will be a feature of many summer

gowns. They are made with collar and revers of white 'satin or contrasting color covered with lace or embroidered in silver and gold silk threads. The one seen in this picture was made with a vest of satin 4 embroidered in gold. These coats are worn over any of the fluffy muslin or soft silk gowns. The new fancies of the gowns in the concluding picture will be understoodfrom brief descriptions. First is a pale pint mull appliqued with cluny lace flowers and trimmed with cluny lace. The gown. shown in half length was linen colored batiste embroidered with black silk. Yoke and collar were tucked white mull, and ihe deep collar was white lace. The third gown pale blue, organdy, the ruffles of its skirt edged with black velvet. Often such ruffles are put on horizorftafly and at equal distances apart, and again the spaces between them are graduated. A white organdy figured in

A PAIR OF LAWN GOWNS.

SUMMER FEATURES THAT ARE OFTEN REPEATED.