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right Colors Make a Notable Feature of Summer Styles PRETTY MODELS FOR THE LITTLE CHILDREN SELDOM has warm weather seen eo much bright color used as 13 . fashionable this season but hap pily h is, for the most part, combined wih Aubduing tones, so that there is nothing really aggressive and only the picturesque note remains. Green it a pronounced favorite and it is claimed that at least one gown of that color is found in every French woman's wardrobe. Cerise is much liked and there are wonderful yellows and blues that are fascinating but, for the time, the tango shades are a bit passe. The two costumes illustrated are typical. The young girl's frock showi one of the prettiest of the draped skirts in tunic effect combined with a kimono blouse and this blouse has the great advantage of giving a slight V at the back of the neck as well as a deeper one at the front. It i3 really made in just two straight pieces fin ished with frills and overlapped and its very simplicity is its greatest charm. The materials that are shown here are cotton crepe embroidered in cerise and cerise taffeta but such a design can be copied in many different ways and many different materials. This makes a charming afternoon dress. If lace flouncing were substituted for tba frock adapted to dances, dinners and occasions of the kind and, to whatever use the design is put, it is exceedingly attractive. The green gown is of taffeta with black and white 6triped voile and it is hard to think of any smarter combination. SUMMER FROCKS ARE CHARMING BOTH IX COLOR AND DESIGN For Midsummer the Round Neck and Short Sleeves arc Both Pretty and Comfortable i HINTS FOR THE NEEDLE WOMEN " ' ' '''" . 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This mode.! i?8il in one, yet sivr the bloi2ie effect The little skirt, or plaited portion, i ' stitched to the body portion and tV closing is made at the back while il" fronts rf the blouse are mvrljpped. For m!d-5umrr.er. the romd neck and hort s!eeAp are both pretty and com fcrtable. but mothers who are looking , T",r3E flowers and leaves are de I signed to be worked in long and short etitch or to be simply out lined. The eeed pods are to be worked in eolid embroidery, the stems and veins are to be outlined and the fctamens worked in French knots. To work long and short stitch take iriegular stitches close together work ing slantwise from the center toward the outer edge of the pattern no pad ding Is required. 7829 Girl's Dress, 4 to 8 years. Rese-colored Hnen would be charm ing with trimming of white, or whits could be trimmed with color, such as the bright red and blue that are bein,.; bo much used. The dress is a very easy one to make, as well a a very attractive one. The plain fronts aro overlapped and the little trimming piece is stitched under them, and tha Lacks are laid in one box-plait each and finished with herns. 7522 Child's Dres, txvS ycm. ahead will be gTad to IrnwthaC fh dress can be made with high neck and long sleeves as well. Blue linen cham bray is the material illustrated and it is finished with scallopa of white. Dresses such as this are made from any childlike material, the thinner washable ones for immediate wear and heavy linen, pique, oU3&nd the like for the fLture. LATEST FASHION NOTES FROM THE FASHION CENTERS No. 765. Design for embroidering a cover for a pillow or cushion twenty two inches square. SIMPLE DESIGN FOR A COLLAR - rT1HE scalloped edge h to be padded I and buttonholed; the dots, leaves and ovals of the con ventional figures are to be worked as eyelets; the small flowers in solid ir.broidery, and the stems are to be r.-dde in outline stitch. No. 4S8. Design suitable for em troiderlng a fancy collar. To pad a continuous acalTop rapidly and effectively, cut a skein of thread, aflMy to two or more strands over the cfjtler of the stamped pattern keeping within the lines; tack here and there in couching fashion, gathering the threads closely at each point of the scallops, and then proceed to button hole closely over this foundation. To work the dots as eyelets, first encircle by running a thread around the out line, pierce with a stiletto and work closely over and over. To make the leaves and ovals as eyelets, first run a thread around the stamped figure, then cut a slight slit lengthwise then crosswise, push back the material and ."Work closely over and over 8243 3781 3245 8243 THERE is a certain old tradition that is still extant among some conservative folk that the tenth of May really marks the opening of tpring and that then and not until then it is safe to don spring clothing. Today we are inclined to remember the tradition and to ascribe to It some measure of truth, for it is warm and 6ummerlike and the air is balmy. Already we are inclined to forget that the earlier spring has been cold and damp and disagreeable. Verily and indeed is it true that there is never more cloud than sunshine and the happy tendency to forget the shadow as soon as the sun bursts forth again emphasizes the truth to a certain extent. Here in old Gotham, we are seeing really beautiful spring costumes and, incidentally, discovering novelties at almost every turn while from across the sea comes the news that the sea son has fairly opened and that styles ere established for a brief time at least. To be sure we live in an age of unrest and fashions change almost as puddenly as do the winds. From whence they come or where they go is often difficult to determine and there is very little that is stable left in the world of dress, but, happily for lovers of real beauty, a conservative movement is afoot and, whatever de velopment may or may not come with the later season, there is a tendency toward the improvement of line, toward getting away from the extremes that have become notoriously un pleasant and toward a general atmos phere of grace that must be welcome. Some time ago, it was stated that Parisian designers were employing noted artists and sculptors to devise a new figure for womankind and we all know with what wonderful adapt ability woman can remake herself, but, while such rather extreme state ments appear now and then, general reports tend to a saner condition and to a realization by the better artists that art is art and beauty is beauty in 6pite of all that the dressmakers can do to distort both. Summer fashions are really beau tiful. If any individual fail to achieve charm in her costume, she herself is at fault. The exaggeratedly narrow ekirt ha 3 disappeared- We have tunics and draperies that take beauti ful lines and, while the skirta beneath are by no means wide, they ate not awkward or over tight. Colors and materials were never so beautiful. Coats and jackets are becomingly loose and graceful as well as com fortable for warm weather wear and the cape has developed into a hundred interesting variations adapted to many uses. The really greatest dressmakers of Paris are combining to advocate real beauty in line and in drapery and avoidance of the extremes that have been only too evident during the past year. If we go amiss, if we welcome fashions that are bizarre, it will be our own fault. We will have yielded to the cry of "change, change at any cost" and have only ourselves to thank. There is tome talk of the long, close baque of the 1883 period with the full ekirt below and the hip drapery but as ha3 been pointed out by a noted authority In matters of dress, the cos tume was worn when tight corsets had been in vogu'? for many years, when women's figures were accustomed to the pressure that they must inevitably mean. The long, close basque, or Jersey, as it w3 called, worn over the corsets of today is grotesque. Let us hope that tho?e women who rule the world of fashions will have too great regard for health and for comfort to consent to the return to env design that entails euch ei!s as the tiny waist and the hour g!a?s effect. Tim? was. and not so long ago, when two cr three great deigners established the fashions for a season. PRETTY HATS FOR LITTLE GIRLS LINGERIE hats are always dainty and pretty for jummer wesr and here are two of the newest and smartest. No. t U made a!! in one piece. In the picture, the edges are eimply r.a!loped but, if preferred, a more elaborate embroidery can be used but, in either case, the edges are laced together by means of ribbon passed through eyelets so that it U very easy to open out end launder. No. 2 i3 mc.de from embroidered flouncing. &&L ( ) four wedge-shaped pieces being stitched together, while ribbon passed through big button-holes makes the trimming. Both hats are very simpl and easy to make and they are both charming in effect. PiquS and linen are' the preferred materials for No. 1, and No. 2 can be made from any pretty r flouncing or from plain material trimmed on its edges. t No. 1 will require M yd. of material 27 or 36 in. wide, No. 2 i yds. cf embroidery 11H in. wide, with o yds. of ribbon 3 ia. vide for either and yds. of narrow ribbon for the lacings of No. I.