The Jersey City News

It is the pique coats which are to be particularly the fashion for the wee ladies. There are long pique coats and short ones, but all of them are trimmed artistically with frills or bands of embroidery. The newest pique coats reach just below the waist line, and are made with the loose full back. A coat of this description which was particularly pretty was made of a dull green pique. It had a deep-like collar, trimmed with tabs of open work embroidery. The tabs were caught to the collar with rows of tiny pearl buttons, and the collar edged with a deep frill of the embroidery. The full back was laid in plaits. Pique coats are made in yellow, pink, blue, white and green. They are trimmed with pearl buttons and white embroidery, and are usually sold with a sunbonnet or pique hat to match.

The long pique coats are quite as pretty as the short ones. The most fashionable have a collar formed of three deep frills of embroidery and a wide belt of insertion, which fastens in front with a rosette of ribbon.

The prettiest of the pique dresses are made to be worn with a guimp. They have short, puffed sleeves. The puff is drawn into a band of insertion, and another band of insertion encircles the waist. Or, in place of the insertion, there is a row of embroidery beading, through which ribbon is run. When this ribbon-run beading is used it also outlines the low neck of the little gown, and the ribbon at the shoulders ties in a butterfly bow.

A white pique gown made in this fashion had yellow ribbons run through the embroidery beading. It was worn with a white tucked guimp, and was particularly pretty.

All the little percale and dimity gowns for summer are made with full skirts and baby waists and deep epaulets of embroidery, or epaulets of the material, edged with a narrow frill of the embroidery. These epaulets are a conspicuous feature of the summer gowns. They are cut so that they fall all over the waist of the gown, forming a jacket effect.

For dress-up occasions the organdie frock is the frock of the season. This may be due to the fact that the organdies are so exquisitely dainty in themselves, or to the fetching manner in which they are made up-at all events, they are decidedly the prettiest gowns of the season.