Dress Echoes Of The Week

Jacketa of box doth for cold weather have white collars and revers made of white cloth or white cashmere wrought with spangled metal braida or cut beada of steel, gold and jet ingeuiously combined. A Marie Antoinette üchu to be historically accurate must be worn over a pointed bocbee. Boleros and Etons should be worn above a belt or girdle. ' The bicycle skirt of next season, longer than heretoforo biit not too long, will be adopted by courageous women for shopping, marketing and for rainy days. Silver-gray feit hats in cavalier shape with one or two long grey feathers may have a little bunch of gay velvet, a brilliant buckle or pin, or a rose to set them off. On some heaAs and for a few occasions red hats are docidedly charming. A girl writinpc from Paris says: "My pretty new hat will satisíy you, becauso you will know it ia red the minute you see it.'1 Black lace over pink is again in vogue for evening wear. Kuffles will disappcar from stteet skirts only when teavy woollens are in upo. Fluffy appendages and accessories of attire, fichus, lace and otlier fancy boleros and kerchicfs of Liberty silk worn Quaker fashion, are by no means in less use becau.se they no longer appcar on verandas and at garden . i. They aecompany and beautify all sorts of indoor gowns, uiaking one do the duty of several. Since slight womon are to wear ruffles from foot to girdle, many a pretty skirt that was shaped when narrowness pleased, will be trimmed without olteration. Smartness, hitherto the invariable ideal of loth go-.vn, is now less sought than decorativo effect. This is achieved by trimwhieh may bc lace, braid, jet or a comi n.of rwo or more of these. Not only broadcloths but various other fahrira in vogue are thus euabellished, the trimness wliich resulta from absolute sini■ now relegated to mclton, cheviot, kindred goods, even these boing Eeal laces, such as point applique, Insh crochet, Cluny, Renaissance and Russian, are in great vogufi. These are usually applied 1 i : tlo f any fulness, the better to display their beauty. l'here is "just now an nnusual demand for medallions of heavy point Venise, Renaissance, Russian and other laces in leaf, floral and geometrical devices. In a crcam Unen batiste lace a spray of flowers is copied, and upon an oval-shaped medallion of black chiffon are appliquéed stars of Renaissance lace in two or three sizes. Many of these motifs are oval in form and are applied across the closing of bodices after the manner of frogs. Sometimes one size is used exclusively and again the ovals are of ated