Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
NOW 1T Is THE GIRL
AND HER "GARTLET"
NEW FAD IN NEW YORK is
SPREADING FAST
Very Sensible Scheme to Insure the
Junction of the Long Glove and
the Short Sleeve, Thus Protecting
the Exposed Elbow and Arm
Special to The Herald.


Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Mch 3.-Everybody has
had a great deal to say about the girl
with the openwork stockings and the
low shoes who went abroad in snowy
wintry weather and died of pneumonia.
Men especially, who have to wrap them
| selves up warmly and who hate fresh
lair. however it be administered, so much
more than women do, have been par
ticuarly observant of women's weak
ness in the matter of fetching but nom
protective footgear
| This winter, however, those who rant
at the inconsistencies of fashion and her
constant defiance of the laws of good
health have had new topic to wonder
about.
This is the short sleeve craze, which
has persisted in staying over the warm
season into the winter, and which has
also insisted on the enlargement of its
realm until it included street as well
as house costumes. Thereupon all the
girls without question, regardless Of
comfort, convenience, good sense and
all those other unimportant items which
are supposed, quite enormously, to be
matters of consideration in connection
with fine frocking, proceeded to have
their winter jackets made up with
sleeves reaching only to the elbow.
| Truly a rather remarkable fashion
when one considers the icy New York
blast. For beneath this elbow coat
sleeve, heretofore considered sacred to
| theaters, dinners and tea gowns, no
dress sleeve was allowed to protude.
The dress sleeve, left the forearm en-
tirely exposed, except for the delicate
kid of the long glove. Is it any wonder
that man and the strong minded wonl-
an, who are beyong the temptations of
fashions allurements, have turned en-
masse from the contemplation of thin
stockings and low shoes and are now
bestowing their attention solely on the
miss with short coat sleeves and unpro-
tected forearms?
On Fifth Avenue
You may see girls any day on Fifth
avenue during the promenade hour
garbed in velvet or broadcloth, with fur
collars or boas hanging almost to their
feet; with befeathered hats, huge, warm
muffs and floating Veils in fact, with
every possible protection for every part
OF the person which money can buy or
commercial interest devise, except for
their ankles and elbows. And this year
CATERS have become so fashionable that
even the ankles have ceased their pitt
full wall to be taken in and wrapped
to complain. And on windy days, when
it is necessary to hold on ones hat,
their plant is really pitiful. What
would you think of Il poor little beggar
child whose elbows We're out in the
cold during a windy January day? You
would pity the poor and rail at the
rich. What, then, is ones surprise to
discover many scores of young women
whose costumes assert them to be of
ST wplI-tG-
do classes coming tripping along on a
windy day, when it is necessary for
them to hold on to their hats, with n
glimpse of white and pink-generally |
rather decided pink-elbow showing be- |
tween glove and coat sleeve?
But this isn't pretty, say the arbiters
of fashion. 1t doesn't matter that it is |
uncomfortable, but it looks so uncom- |
Portable, and besides it spoils ones ell
bows for evening dress, Therefore, the
short-sleeved young person has evolved |
the gartlet, which is now as necessary |
an item of the accessories of her toilet |
as it's larger original.
The gartlet performs for the fashion
ably long street glove exactly the same |
office as that which the garter performs !
for the stocking. The gartlet clasps the
glove above the elbow, holding it tight
ly in place. 1t is not only that they
add to the comfort and sightliness of
the wearer by keeping the glove up
under the sleeve, but they also pre-
vent any untidy appearance of the
forearm resulting from the glove slip
ping down too far and causing over
heavy folds of kid to gather at the
wrist. Gartlets must match the gloves
exactly.
How They Are Made
They are made of elastic about half
an inch wide and covered on both sides
with black ribbon, shirred together
along the edges. Where they join a
little black bow or rosette is placed, or
many prefer fancy buckles of either
or real gems and gold.
When buckles are used the gartlets are
made to pull together and can there
fore be adjusted in size to any arm
AS yet gartlets can only be found in a
few expensive shops, but they are so
simple to make at home that even those
with an eye to economy need not de-
spair of enjoying the relief afforded
by them.
With evening gloves garlets are not
worn. For holding them in place a
very narrow elastic is sewed around the
op of the gloves, which is then tucked
lnder by the wearer so that it will not
show. Those. however, who are wise in
whims declare it will not be
ong before most elaborate gartlets are
worn IN the evening.
And now of what does the beautiful
little gartlet most remind one? Let us
pc perfectly fair. Let us search our
call the affable clerk of our favorlte
-l.f !