The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1903, Page 10

N the merr: springtime the debutante swee: g £ra gowns e gown of .each resembles the gown o ne r. still there is a diffcrence aad eciates this mcrz than the g people themselves, to whom tha s s in these social dramas ars o For a matron to bé ill dressed is a 5 ter of sadness, but for a sweet giri grad N be conscious of poor dressing is mental tragedy. The gi her friends suffer because st 4 all the sweetness Is t sestion f the rraduati'n dress mes but once In the lite of a gir!, and be r college A the rtance to her. he esca a farewel! hop the P € and all the thing suitable to wear graduate no longer simpiicity. Her gown woman, is of sweep as modishly as that o graces the occasion 1 not be s0? Fcr ro graduate a dear lite With the advent of ® the school age has advanced oung women of 23 and 24 are stli books end their charts. \Where e they were getting ready to rock the le they now prepare for higher and higher educatio: For the Normal Graduats, All this is felt In the graduating gown hich is now bullt, not for the girl of 16, it for her sister many years oid. For e girl of 16 or 18, who is so fortunate as enjoy the happiness of the diploma there are very pretty littie dresses, whicn come just to the floor In front and sugst eweep In the back. They are built of hite batiste over white lawn, and they e finished around the foot with a very de band of lace, which is applied to the ods. For her belt sweet 16 or happy 18 wears 2 wide folded girdle of batiste, overlaid with lace, while her skirt is tucked in wide tucks, extending from the belt downward nearly half way to the knees. Even the simplest of graduation waists seem very elaborate this year, but it is the elaboration of hand work rather than that of rich materials. The waists are made 2 ma®s of tucks and insertion, and the slceves have wide, Jacy cuffs to the wrists: then comes the big bag of white batiste. and above this great bag. in which the elbow rests, there i the deep shoul- der cap made of tucks and of lace. The yoke is besutifully lacy and there is a high lace stock, half insertion and half lewn houlé the graduate prefer the gown of veiling, which at one time enjoyed mawa THE SUNDAY CALL 50 wide s popularity, she can have It, for it is fashionable now. And In this material she can have a choice of vell- ings, sll very soft, all very silky, many of them lustrous, and all suitable for use in the graduation dress. If the thin silk or wool vellings be used HEE “and. they must be made over a nice lining of either silk or lawn, and they must be very delicately treated, either with pin tuckings or with plaitings or very parrow ‘olds. They take these fine veilings and fagot stitch them, or they trim them with hem- KADU wh The Eouse Coat will” & r s s The prevailing \ o wider t ' v re s King T w 1 zown s K enes 1 sirl 8 A A e sa artis ~ The Debutante’'s Gown essing ) vea kq v wa » society is s. nor them who was a litt Miss Jean Rei 1 uable be ¢ so many costumes whi g w man wears But, 2 T the A g butan wea but arr Bl r elegance v w r ) s modiste sulted us mam \ Roos velt which the is also ruffled wide flounce But why she these expensive she sigh beca just s T for the styles to cutting out nothing car ers in her T the sum whi less beautifu If she Is thoroughly in feeling with dress world the artistic soul of the dr loving woman will thrill with keen stinets, and out of Ler chaos and her tles she will evolve much that wil come her well in her scason of gow m- lit- be- 5