Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1915, Page 17

Tar, OMAHA SUNDAY BEE MAGAZINE PAG Back View of a Midsummer Walking Dress of Biscuit Tussore and Net. (“Lucile” Model) By Lady Duff-Gordon (“LUCILE"Y HAT to wear in the dog days W 1s & problem that sometimes makes us sigh for the days of the early Greoks. One can be cool, however, it one keeps a few simple rules. Wear whites and cool soft greens and tans and also light pinks and blues. These are midsummer eolors. Here on this page 1 show a couple of very practical Summer walking dresses—one of tussore and net and one of serge. The ning dress is also adapted for the warm nights. ‘The little sergeé reminds me of an- other ‘typical and smart blue one that has & short sacque coat bound with brald and an array of bralded outtons fastening its loose 'straight ‘walstcoat fronts of black satin. The ekirt hangs in very full pleats, which are also bound with braid, the same finish deing given to the side-pockets which are a feature of quite & num- ver of the new skirts. The ac- cessories consist of boots made in the same serge suiting with just & vamp of patent leather, and a sallor hat with & soft crown of black straw, jolned' together In' the bonds of modish matrimony by means of an encircling array of flatly-laid black wings, whose overhanging points break, and therefore soften the severe line of the brim. ‘Then beige covert coating 1s another much favored fabric for the meking of these simple coat and skirt costumes, black and white ‘neadgear and footwear belng fre- quent and smart accompaniments, though sometimes you wiil see—and then certainly admire—boots all of bronze glace, or others of brown kid with belge cloth uppers, and then to erown all, a long, narrow and much tip-tilted toque, perhaps of brown satin bordered with a wreath of fiatly laid and softly shaded leaves and draped with a brown lace vell As to the aforementioned *“coat- dress” of navy blue serge suiting, it 1s one of the many things for which women may—and, Indeed must—be truly thankful this season. For it 1s always most convenient, com- fortable, and smart, though It is, perhaps, st ity best when its stylo 1s most militant, with broad silky black braid closely banded across the straight somewhat loosely hang- g front, edging the little upstand- ing collar, and banding the hem of the skirt, whose fulness all comes from the closely pleated folds at the sides. ‘The obviously most suitable and smart headgear for such a costume is the new “sword handle” bat, which ‘wins its name by its trimming of soft plumage, two long quill feathers in- troduced at the left side into the soft bandings and loops, helping to secure the desired, and very deeor- ative, effect. The sallor shape on which this sword of peace—and piquancy—is lald, is carried out In favy blue silk, and ft 15 also being made in all black. Of course, there are any number of other coat-dressés of navy serge which will, . perhaps. introduce =» device of fine braiding at the sides, to mark the change from the straight loose lines of the corsage to the out- ward flaring fulness of the skirt, while others again will be arranged with a very wide and quite loose belt effect, or, perhaps, a broad eash of the same serge, bound with braid, and crossed low down and loosely about the hips Sometimes. too, a telling touch of contrasting color will be Introduced-—as, for instance, when the military color is of cerise linon embroidered in white and gold, and when the buttons which figure in front, and the hips, are of a in the centre of & , & somewhat elaborate design of black brald and sowtache belng then carried down either side. So that, really, there should be a coat-dress Lo sult every woman, which is fortunate, seeing that every woman certainly needs one of these partic- ular and well-nigh perfect garments which are probably going to do more than anything else to. decide the battle of the skirts, and to win the victory for the new full models For this style is infinitely more be- coming and easy to wear when thus allled to a long straight corsage, than when made separately and more closely Stting about the waist the Newest Fashions for the Dog Days ADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous “‘Lucile” of London, and L for t creator of fashions in the world, writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper, prescoting all that is newest and best in styles for well-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon's Pans establishment brings ber . into close touch with that centre of fashion, ; 3 8 E