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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1914 PAGE SEVEN I) w -' C&U I ' ffl l I - - fi J x - l r I 'HE tunic is the all-absorbing topic of interest in the JttoTTTtl IT II"p'4--:--"' J I sartorial world juat now. It takes many variations (yAo f. If ff3jir ft tiijJV' 3 :-? I 'l sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, it may fb-tjfrrTfl rP If---"-i--f - -I be plain and circular with a ripple at the lower edge and VaV ? ' Ik firrf ft r i 'ft I---- - ' tl n,ay Pted and it may be gathered, but it is so )05AyVxW KjfHjJlfJ f ;Ji!t Xt' -m Rraceful and so really desirable in its lines and its effect . 0r ' .:; N$ttlJlJtJ - 3 - ---T"r ' ITTl ' that we hope and expect that its favor will continue indefi- flS9 V fSUK TH" f-W-Jff J Hi nitely. In this illustration are shown some of the best xySy ma r-'' 7 3 : y I ; jtjlTjj designs. Incidentally the coats are exceedingly new and iijfjiP mm. The pretty, loose, short one shown in the larger group . really owes its inspiration to the cape but it is a coat, nevertheless, with sleeves and just a little short cape to conceal the seams. The late summer is so apt to be the lin e for tours or junketing of one sort or another that new costumes are quite certain to be needed and these coat suits exactly fill the need. Light weight gabardine is a material much in vogue and an excellent one for the late summer and early fall but silk suitings are and will be fashionable and many of the new bengalines and moire effects are really mar velously beautiful while their weight is well adapted to the reason. To be correct the late summer costume must show a narrow skirt but a flaring tunic and a flaring coat 8362 - 8203 8301 - 8359 weather. The material doesnot crum ple nor crush readily. It is delight fully light of weight and sheds the dust. It would be easy to reproduce any one of these models in any chosen material, for the designs are of the available sort that can be adapted to with a collar that follows the general tendency. Taffeta. hard -usage of travel and also to church far from losing its favor, is being made up by the best & going, visiting and the like, as ona tailors and a taffeta suit it always an ideal one for warm ; material or another is used. All white flOQQ OOO Is much liked iur warm weather and wili be worn for a considerable time to come. The costume of white gabardine bound with white silk braid is an exceedingly handsome one and by no means so perishable as at first thought appears, for gabardine does not hold the dust and, when really soiled, can be cleansed perfectly and without injury. ( White taffeta fordrssy costumes is fashionable and white taffeta with trimming of black velvet makes a handsome as well as a fashionable combination. One could think of the cape coat suit made in that way to be singularly successful while, as a matter of course, silk in a darker cnlor wouLd be more practical for every dy wear. All the tan and bruwn shades are to continue their favor for the autumn so that a suit of one of those colors bought now would be useful in the future. Women who are inclined economi cally will find the tunic an excellent garpsent. The prevailing skirt be neath is in the close two-piece style that has been the fashion for some time. A really new costume can be made at moderate cost by using such a skirt in blue serge with a tunic and coat of either blue or black taffeta or bengaline or, to further connect the two materials, taffeta could be used with a little cape like collar matching the skirt. i There are a great many possibili ties in these tunic costumes. The first great advantage is to be found, of course, in the intrinsic beauty but the many ways in which they can be utilized also are an advantage. To avoid unnecessary weight, many tailors are making the under skirts of thin lining silkand facing with the material to thenecessary depth and, in that treatment, is to be found still another bint of practical value. Such short tunics as are shown in the smaller group are really very pretty and attractive and go a long way toward freshening a partly worn toilette as well as adding to a new one. Pretty fancy silks and ribbons are being much used for their making and it is really astonishing how com pletely a fancy tunic such as the shirred one, trade from flowered ribbon or Roman stripes will transform a white gowt. ay one of quiet tone that has been tma throughout the season with a diffacflt finish. It is almost no trouble j make these little accessories and they more than repay the labor aa wj aa the expenditure. LACE FLOUNCED ARE BEING EXTENSIVELY WORN Paris Sets the Example of Lace Coats and Caps, AT the moment, the very gen eral use of lace is interesting us. It comes as something of a revival and seems so especially suited to the heat of the late season that we greet it with great enthusiasm. If you have lace of any sort hidden away among your treasures, bring it forth immediately, for every sort and every kind have been called into requisition whether in the way of flounces of rare quality or bits that can be worked into blouse accessories and the like. Lace flounces aie being extensively worn, both the very wide ones and the narrow ones that are arranged one o-'er the other. Bodices are largely or lace a ad, not infrequently, two or more kinJs are combined in a single costume. Rich., beautiful guipure has come into its own, Spanish laces have been revived and. of course, there are all the woaderlu'ly dainty ones with which we are more familiar. Paris sets the example of lace coats and lace capes, far too. ethereal, really, to be dignified by the name "wrap." Lacs garnitures are being extensively worn, and there is even a rumor that the pretty, becoming jabot is to b revived. Straight lace scarfs which drape so beautifully and are so generally be. coming are holding their own. Those of Spanish lace mean genuine warmth, as well as beauty. , Of course, you will be glad to note, that machine plaiting are being worn; that is to say, accordion-plaited, flat plaited and box-plaited tunics, flounces trimmings of one sort or another, ara found upon the newest gowns and there is not a reader who will need to be reminded that tunics of the sort are of real economical value quite as well as being graceful and becoming. Unfortunately, late summer is apt,' too often, to see costumes slightly worn or somewhat passe. It is a very simple matter to arrange some such tunic or flounce such as is shown on this page over a plain skirt and t make a draped blouse to match. THERE is no feature of uodsrc fashions more interesting than the rapidl development of an idea that really takes the feminine fancy. Just now that fact stem's specially evident in the basque which made its bow only a few weeks ago, is already appearing in numberless variations and has apparently taken a definite place, while the long tunic has so firmly established itself that it may be said to be the prevailing model. While that in part this sudden rush for new ideas that appeared late in th season is due to reaction against the ugly and exaggerated fashions of a year ago undoubtedly is true, nevertlitless, designers and students of fashions know that there are a great many influence at wo.-k to rush any idea, often indeed to such an extent as to kill it before It has had an honest chance. The long tunic in one variation or another is very generally becoming and iQ is one of the fashions which has masculine approval, which perhaps has helm ed its vogue. DESCRIPTION OF PATTEPS 8301 Misses Short Coat, 16 and 18 years. 8359 Two-Piece Skirt witS Tunic, 16 and ift yean. 8307 Coat with Flared Lower Edge, 34 to 44 bust. 8353 Two-Piece Skiit with Deep Tunic, 34 to 32 waist. 8363 Cape Coat, 34 to 44 bust. ' 8303 Tunic Skirt, 32 to 33 waist. 8299A Set of Tunics, 34 to 33 waist. 8334 Set of Gladstone Collars, Om Sim. Msy Manton Patterns for theie De in mv be obtained br sending 10 cents for each pattern wanted to the t-ashion Department at this paper. Fashion Dept. , Gentlemen: I encloie. . .". . .ixHlhich send e the following patterns: Send Pattern No.... T. . . .Size..... Send Pattern No..,...Siie..M To (Name) .7f?t?..'... Street and No. Gtyf Stat....'...j