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MORNING GOWNS - MUST BE SIMPLE : : IN CUT and STYLE Attractive Models that are Simp'e to Make and Ea.-f y FOR "MORNING WEAR THE NEGLIGEE KES AN IMPORT . ANT ITEM OF THE WARDROBE ' V '.' -. ' Graceful Designs that are Available -for- Many - -,- Uses. -. v t .. ,v By MAY MAKtTON SIMPLE V GO WNS-ARE NEEDED to Adjt . . so satis factot y a the one mail in om piect style, that b, wit' blouee and akjrt Joined. and tW-, together at the front. It can be slipped ' 4u fa a tnorftettt,"ft iweHrewe seat and t attractive, and i ia thoroughly com Portable as well. . If one' mornings are KWv to be gjiroi orti iu uouacnoeci cask ana prosaic occupation of the sort, sturdy washable materials are the most de sit able. If one can indulge in a morn ing of lettuce and dainty occupations, such materials as pretty challis or cashmere in some becoming co'or, or albatross, might well be chosen, but always the cut and the style should be simple. In the illustration are shown six models and each one is good. Away at the extreme upper left if a gown that can be worn either by the home woman or the nunc, and whatever is available for the nurse is sure to be Jesigned upon most scientific lines. The pockets in this one are a com.nen datiqo. Here,, that gown is made of . striped linen, blu and, white, with a cellar and cuffs of blue, and a very pretty garment it is. Plaids are singularly attractive this season, and there are really very beau tiful plaid cotton materials that make up attractively Icr gown of this sort, the cce next the nurse's costume shews one of these with plain collar used as trimming. Sine plaid can be found in stuidy gingham as well as it: ihe finer fabrics, it ia in eav matter 16 copy the gown in them as well a Whether it is wise to make the morning gown with long, .or three--, quarter, sleeves' must always be some what dependent upon the tasks thai are likely to follow the breakfast hour. In the center of the group if shown a pretty -Httle model that 'is mack of cotton crtrje in a reallv wonderful sharle of blue with, white collar and run's and with a little black bow at the neck and a black patent leather Ijelt that mean esceeding smartness. The tucks that aiect at the front edges make an un usual closing and an attractive one. Side ami diagonal closings are very general just now, to whatever use the costume is to be put. The two models that are closed in such way are both uretty, practical dresses with skirts that are just wide enough for comfort without being very voluminous. The square neck is always pretty when it is becoming, and a great many women find it in every way comfortable and desirable for morning wear, hut there u icarcely anyone neck finish becoming ro all, and this particular gnwn car N? made with a high or with round collar whenever desirable. The skirt is in four gores and the back gore may lie cither laid in a box-plait or gathered. , Almost even business wonuu wilt 'ikv the little V -shaped neck of the next, model, but for those who find 1 he V -shape n t becoming or not coni tortablr, a' little chemisette aill ! lound which may lie worn whenever tcasioii requires Here, the gown tself is made from a light weight wool ..aterial showing an attractive two- olonsl rhoelf.sl iligi,, . with collar and curls "of silk that, match the Jarkcsc color. l ihe extreme rignt i- uou one ot 'lie most practical anil satisfactory 4owns of the entire group. It consists ii-aily of a blouse and a five. gored skirt, but the fronts e f the blouse and 'he fronts of the s!:irl are so well over, apprd that a sintic button or hook and eye at the belt is the only fasten ing reuired, and every woman knows tke luxury' of the morning gown that ;an be slipped on without fuu or delay. !n the jMctuie, the material for this ;own is cashmere in a beautiful shade A gray, and the trimming is the same .natcriu! in. an ivory white. A some hat more serviceable gown could' be llll'IC Ul I ,ic s.wrv IJULllldl 111 IMI K. OIU'. r of some pretty but simple washable tatiric, and this season their name n really legion. "DESCRIPTION OF PATTERNS ; :39-Housc tjown of "Xii?v;h t osti'iiK J4 to bust Msy Msnton Psttems for these De signs may be obtained by seiKiing 10 cents for each pattern wanted to the Fashion Department of this psper. Fashion Dept. Ccntlenienr I enelos;. ..... ier which send me the tsUnwUig psttcrns: ' Send Pattern No.'. . .Siw. . . . ..Sit.... Send Pattern Nc. . Te(Name) Street sod No. Gtj... State FADS AND FANCIES OF FASHION II" is a gay time here m old Gotham just now, despite the shadow that has been cast over the entire world, for the opera begins on the Ifith, and we have had a most wonderful Fashion Fete, and we are ready for the frivolities and the pleasure. As .i matter of course, we are also working in the name of humanity to send help where help so sorely n needed, but we have learned the lesson combining that work with the gaities of life, for we know that money must circulate and that trade must he stimulated -and that the frivolities play their part. We must go on with the dance ami the dinner and enjoy the theatre and the opera. When we are doing all these things we are helping to keep tin great machinery of business moving and when that is accomplished, much good is clone. . ' Needles.; to say we shall miss ill, usual Horse Show, but tile ration Fete, organized of social leaders, may, ir a way, l- said to have taken its place. It gave us three days ami - eiiglus. cl a. -most brilliant . costume showing, and it alio has served a per haps bigger and t in Jtelping to brinn " together hr designers and makers -.vho have licen far too prune to' lx: rivalicnly and to fail in realizing thar harmonj is reetleel 'lor success, in every walk of life. , What we need more than anything else ia to tealir our own resourwrs, our own abilities. The Faction Fete, helping to bring about that result, has proved itself really an importnt. institution. It is to lie repeated in other cities, and it is sure to be' of interest, for all citie alike are interested in its object and achievement. As a matter ot tour, there a nolhing actualiv new, distine'tiscly "iSairrs? 76"uTTtW"T?-?ucri'" critics as have scru fit to cavil over these facti won d seem to have di regarded certain inherent truths. J47Semi-Priree Gowii. TOT t)W Scmi-t'iineesscijow'n. 34 to 4-' bust 7441 Seini-IVinreiae Qowi. 34-to 44 bust. Semi-Princesse Cowt, 34 to 44 bust. 76sS Une-lluiton Semi-Princesse Dn's;. ' .34 t,. 44 bust. 7S00 Hottsx; Gown irj Empire style. 34 o 44'bust. 7614 .Kimono with Set-ln Sleiee,.. Small 34 or 30, Medium 3 or 40, Large 4J or 44 bust. 74(16 Kimono or House Gowii 34 ; 44 bust. 7803 House Jacket, 34 to 43 bust. 70-B Japanese Kimono wuh Scsl; Slisses' 33 or 34, Women's 30 or .;. i40 or 42 bust. 8H)j Dresiing Jacke. 34 to 44 bti-t. m im . liinwk- I asfnon is not a local matter. I n ail sue countries of the world there is, to be sure, a certain type of dress that Irlongs to primitive citirens. In Europe there are the various ieasant costumes; in our land we have the aborigines with thnr blankets and their beads and their curious modes of elrese : 4me -society- lnw its own styles and they are much the same where ver soe iety exists. What we had a right toeect and wh.,t the Fe'te has shown as is the ability of American designer; to do exactly what the French have clone for generation to study all the sources, to gain inspiration by even' known means, and to adopt and to adjust and to bring together until they create what is really their own To ask 'what was purely .American, i;: the fete is really alurd. If Wc,a-k what has lieen French n the Paris-ar exhibitions ol the past decade or more, we shall Ie obliged to admit that one season s suggestions all came from the 'Ikilk.Jn Mate-, for there was Kaikan . war and those weie the countries in the public rye. In a hot her season we ii.'d the Moycn Age or roprrly the Dagobert style, because, lorsuntli, Paris was all agog atmuc a successful play that treated thereof. Year by year anil season ly season, we caoan... irace the siijjgestioii for the fashions that are put forth. All the kimono mode's are m!iricd fniin the Japanese, and so the story goes. Why should our own fete tie required to be pureh iinmenKirial taken from Ijere, fron there, or from wherever a ood or a timely thought could be foutid? Ir, the exhibition were .shnait leau iixul creations. I'erhaps the most -dis tfticny oirgTriaTofaTT were the evening ,owns put forth by the house of Kurz tRim. Vet these were new, were orip ual, -only in the sense that they de parted front the trend of the earlin -eason. foe they harked back to tlx period of 1850 or earlier,. and while they arc perfect Iv charming, acui while they are perfectly new, bcinc; adapted and not copied, they cert.li.ih' ive direct evidence ot the source fron which they came. Before me .lie u book illustrating the lashion of lx nineteenth century' the ettrcr.wi. fullripl'lit't skirt, the pointed basq ic the tertha that forrtis almost a straic, line, leaving the shouldfrs expo.-c and the short slce'.ies with their cir cular frills arc all M 1 found; beei. 071 - - . 1 Av&m L' A b L-rJ mMmm M&)k I'evertheifss, the Kur.man inmki ire new, for the skirt differs Irom any other it shows onlv similar lineV ami the bodices have features that are all I heir own. It was a happy thought tc use that period, for the materials ol lie seisin show wonderfully rich hrocades, introduced into which an silver and metal threads, and them brocades ire ideally adapted to 1 1r tyle. That the brocades ol today au Mjft and plaiable and that the gown :ake wonderful lines and folds thai u-'re not ossible when "silk that woul.r iul alone" wa the test ipialitv - Is to ( he I auty and the charm ' I NiL wise woinaa s sore to pro- model has all toe charm "of tn Orient. "via "nerstir-w1ra7Trcttyand Thaw W the btg: Oowlig itoeW and becomlng negiigeef." Not aldrm Tlw "Wf de" a$h thtrrr-M ttrttrr Jo tley contribute to her comfort and' -finish. It is altogether vsry charming, he elegance of life but they arc also a and in th picrura appropriately b real economy. If they are not in readk made of Japanese alllv showing a - nets to slip on when one is resting and flowered design trimmed with plain- - relating between the formal occa! of life, there is alwas the temptation tc wear the gown dctigncd fcr more formal use, and one wealing of such. sort does niore injury than seveial of the more legitimate kind. The French woman who is always well dressed, considers her negligees of vital mr. mcnt. nd it is just as much from the economic point of view as it is from the one of daintiness and charm. In this group aie shown some excel lent kimenos, a pretty house flown, and jackets that can lie wcrn to the borne breakfast table or for any inti mate occasion. 1 he house gown is made in (be Empire style that U always pretty for such use. It is very simple, but it takeyflie lines that - mean grace, and wnrn grace is accom plished the resuli. is beauty, let the material be what it may. The dotted challis and lace nuke an excellent combination and also a useful cute, for challis washes quite as perfectly a cotton, and the gown which cjn ho cleansed with case is always a semiMr one When we combine neiisc with lieauty we have the jierfect couiliina (ion. Albatross nukes pretty gowns Bf fhh TIOTT ;and if something hsml omrr is wanted, . there arc lovely Of cnt al silks that seem esecially made lor purposes ol the sort. Also, cashmere in' liked, but challis is a , randny and is mire to" be pretty. - Hie three kimonos show quite dil tertnt styles of .lliat, ever-.useful gar ment. The one that is modeled ( !om!v after he onerital Japanese The kimono at tha center ia tmich locidified from the ortginal forsn. but nevertheless retains lb essential sim- from a cotton flannel with collar and cuffs of cashmere and caflopiad. . The combination of materials, b pfttty one and essentially practical. M well. The great advantage of such a, gar ment is to be found in tha mm with which it can be slipped on sad off. That it takes graceful line add to it charm and tne pleasure m weannf, and as a matter of course it CM be e:opied in any preferred material, '. . I he kiinono on the seated figure is finished only with a band that ia rolled over at the neck-edge The crepe ' shown is made especially for tick purpose and is quite sufficiently Ori-yHal in color and design to suggest its ue. Good effects are obtained. however, by the use of noweretf crepes or flowered chaliies or of the cotton crpc that is found in a hundred pretty colon, and pretty designs, while such materials as albatross and cashmere 'arr much tn demand. Albatross b a great lavorite and since it b uet thin enough to suggest a color beneath', tt U oltrn used in quiet tone oer a colored lining. Cray with pink India lilt: beneath' with bands of piak silk, . makes a very charming effect. Real nun s veiling is a good material, too, and may be treated after the meaner ol albatross. It is mote closely woven tlian voile, but b soft and comfortable to wear while It always takee graceful folds asd may be washed U necessary
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