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pleated skirt reaching to the knees, a full blouse something on the sailor order, with wide collar and revers, and short sleeves in one big puff, finished with an elastic band so that they can be pushed up almost to the shoulder, leaving the arms free. Either full knickerbockers or bathing tights are worn, but the skirt is so well cut and so full that it is not necessary to have the trousers of the same material, as was formerly the case when the skirt was made on simpler and scanter lines. Black, bright blue, and red are the three favorite colors; and the smartest suits are not trimmed with braid. The revers are of

silk, and are either of the same color as the gown or of white. All of these bathing suits are becoming and are most carefully cut and fitted. As a rule, bathing corsets are worn with them very thin affairs, with only a few bones, and never tight. A wide belt of leather or of silk (if of the latter, with sash ends knotted at the side) finishes the skirt and waist. Tennis gowns are much more elaborate than they were a few years ago, and are more elaborate than the golf costumes, although the golf fashions also are decidedly more feminine than they were. There is more fulness to the skirt, although the circular skirt is decidedly the most comfortable to wear. Serge, cloth, Scotch tweed, and linen are all used for the golf

skirts and also for the tennis skirts, but the tennis gowns are quite as elaborate as the ordinary short gown intended for summer mornings.

The golf shirts are more businesslike in appearance and much more severe and plain than those worn for tennis. Indeed, the lace and embroidered linen blouses for tennis are quite fanciful and very attractive. The embroidered hats give a very picturesque effect, also, whereas the golf hats are all on the severe order.

Automobile costumes are most singular in appearance when the entire outfit is seen at once, but there is no use in trying to be becomingly gowned when going on an automobile trip. What is practical should be worn. There may be a smart short costume that is, a short skirt and attractive blouse and a short jacket to match the skirt; but if for cold weather there must be a long shapeless coat of heavy cloth or fur, with sleeves that fasten

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SHORT GOWN of natural-color pongee with raised square silk dots in a contrasting color; smoked-pearl buttons.

into a cuff at the wrist, and with doublebreasted fronts. A hood is by far the most comfortable sort of headgear, but a small hat with an automobile veil or with a long scarf that ties over the ears and in front is absolutely necessary.

It is nonsense for a woman to go off on an automobile trip, or, in fact, to go in for any kind of sport, unless she is suitably dressed.

It is by no means easy to combine the practical and the becoming, but it is a possi

ble thing, and the first rule to be observed is that the picturesque is to be most carefully avoided. The picturesque woman

is out of place in outdoor sports. She looks picturesque if suitably dressed; otherwise she looks like a caricature, no matter how blessed she may be with natural beauty.

Light shoes to wear with short skirts are in fashion again, and very much more attention is now paid to being well shod than has been the case for some time. When expense is no object these shoes are, as a rule, made to

order. There are heavy tan shoes with high gaiters attached-the gaiters made of some checked material - that are thought very smart, but they are certainly heavy and very warm. Then there are shoes in tan leather with high gaiters or leggings to match, and there are also the low-cut tan shoes to be worn with spats of light or dark color. The water-proof shoe is a necessity for the woman who goes in for golf. For tennis there is, of course, the tennis shoe with the rubber sole; but even the simplest and plainest shoe is, in these days of luxury, expected to be suited to the foot of each wearer that is, it must fit and must be well made, and above all things it must be kept in good order. American women have been famous abroad for their well

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BLUE ALPACA BATHING SUIT with trimmings of white alpaca and narrow black braid; flat braid rosettes on the waist and skirt.

shod feet, and now there is just as much care taken of shoes intended for outdoor wear as in choosing slippers to go with the ball gown. The heels are higher on the walking boots, but they are the military or Cuban heels-not the Louis XV. style, which are absurd even on a walking shoe and entirely impossible for outing shoes. For tennis, which will be the fashionable game this summer, it is necessary, in fact, to wear rubber soled heelless shoes. This is a strict requirement of all clubs.

A famous English woman golf-player said recently that what surprised her during her observations of a golfing season here was the contrast between the dressing of American play

ers on fair and on stormy days. She said that the American women were more smartly dressed than the English in fine weather, but when obliged to play in bad weather they seemed to care nothing for appearances, whereas the Englishwoman wears practically the same costume under all kinds of skies. This is a timely criticism, as it is true of many golf-players. The only way to learn of our faults is to be told of them, so the wise young woman who reads this will do well to adopt her last winter's cravenette or cloth walking skirt for wet golfing days or tennis matches when the dew is still on the grass.

The heavy brown linens in the various weaves are about the best material possible for summer outing gowns. They keep clean, launder well, and have every virtue. They are rather heavy in the close weave, but for women and young girls who object to this weight, there are loose canvas weaves of linen in the various shades of écru and brown, and also in colors, which are quite light in weight.

Pongee in the natural color is very useful, too, for tennis gowns, being cool and light and serviceable. It is made up, even for such uses, in pretty blouses with insertions of écru lace. The white pongees are beautiful, and come in many grades. They make handsomer frocks than does white linen, but they are hardly more useful or satisfactory.

Many of these so-called outing gowns are elaborately embroidered. In fact, embroidered linen gowns have not in the least gone out of favor, although the designs and style of the embroidery vary from season to season. Much drawn-work and Norwegian open-work are used, and cross-stitch embroidery in colors on bands of linen canvas makes a very pretty and effective trimming for the linen and thin silk waists. On brown linen it is especially good, as

the contrast of the colors brightens up the dull tint of the linen.

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BATHING SUIT of white serge with blue edges and blue stitching; full white serge belt, with enamelled buckle.

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UMMER fashions are more possible for women of limited incomes than

are winter ones-that is to say, it is rather easier to make up summer clothes at home than it is the heavier costumes designed especially for winter wear. The heavy cloths, such as are necessary

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WHITE BATISTE NEGLIGEE with mauve spots; mauve taffeta-ribbon edge and rosettes, plain white front.

SIMPLE GOWN of blue batiste and English embroidery with black velvet lacing in the front of the waist.

for the street costume, cannot very well be made up satisfactorily at home. The work should be done by a tailor, and the pressing, in order to give a satisfactory finish, is not possible with home implements. But materials such as are required for summer gowns can be made up in the house just as well as at any dressmaker's, provided there is a good

The waist can be in surplice effect, or there can be a short jacket, to be worn over a simple net waist and trimmed to match the skirt. In this way there need not be an inch of lace or embroidery bought for the gown.

White muslin frocks-and by muslin is meant all thin wash materials in white-are very fashionable. They may look rather smarter if they have a silk lining, but the colored lawn linings are just as effective, and in truth French dressmakers often use them in preference to the silk. There are several new linings this year that have a soft silk finish, and these are very effective under thin materials. Although rather too light to be satisfactory under heavy materials, they will wear well under thin goods.

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GIRL'S BOLERO AND SKIRT of dark blue or red linen or galatea with a cord of the same on all edges; sleeve and bolero cut in one, with seam on shoulder continued down the arm.

pattern to follow and that taste is shown in the making. Even the silks that are so fashionable this year are perfectly possible for home workers.

Silk is a very fashionable material at the present moment, and is not out of the reach even of women with small means. There never were so many attractive colorings and designs in lowpriced silks as are to be found at the present moment, and while it is fashionable to have clothes very elaborately trimmed, it is also fashionable to have rather plain effects-that is to say, the material itself can be used for trimming in place of lace and embroidery.

A plain or figured taffeta silk, a pongee or a foulard gown, can be made up with a pleated skirt, or with a skirt gathered at the sides and back, and trimmed with ruchings of the material or tucks around the foot of the skirt, or with flounces of the material finished only with cordings or shirrings.

Gown of old-rose linen with bands of pink and white embroidery; yoke and sleeve puff of tucked white nainsook or lawn.

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