Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-27
REVIVAL OF
 THE BANDANA
In old Time Styles Quaint and Beau
 tiful-New Uses For It.

There was time, say fifty years ago. when red bandanna handker chiefs were an article of extensive and common use. Middle aged and older men were in those days likely tc carry red silk bandanna, If not daily at least upon occasion, as on Sundays; and among what might be described as old fashioned men there were many who never carried a hand kerchief of any other kind.
 It was a handkerchief of this sort that was pictured with one corner of in hanging nesligently from a coatta1 pocket of the stately gentlemen who always appeared in a frock coat; In tucking it's capacious folds into his pocket that corner strayed out It was a handkerchief of this sort that was brought into use when, as in the old phrase, the same stately gentleman blew his nose sonorously, this soft voluminous and really luxurious handkerchief being a red silk ban danna printed perhaps with palm leaf pattern of with sonle seometri- cal or other design.
 For children there were provided many red cotton bandannas, while ill the South red cotton bandannas were commonly used by the slaves, by the women to tie around their heads, and there were silk bandannas, too, put to this use. No picture of an old time Southern nanny would be complete without bandanna of figured red silk tied around her head and knotted in front with the ends projecting on either side of the knot.
 So of the red bandanna handker- chief say fifty years ago, before the war, but after the war things were different The red bandanna seemed to have largely disappeared.
 There were, to be sure, still men who carried red bandanna silk hahd- kerchiefs, as there have ever since continued to be some; but still, after the war the red bandanna largely disappeared supplanted by white handkerchiefs of linen or of cotton, and white handkerchiefs have con- tinued to rule substantially ever since. l
 But within the last five years there l has been here a comparatively limited but still growing revival of the old | time bandanna. In this revival in l which the use of them might be de- scribed as fad. the red silk bandan- ma are mostly worn by younger peo- pie, both men and women.
 Women tie these gay handkerchiefs | about their heads as part of a bath ing outfit Men use them largely as handkerchiefs. red bandanna l tucked in the pocket of white fan mel coat giving an agreeable dash of | color.
 NIen wear them as neck handker ., chiefs. tied with loose knot flowing ends in front o,,.. =, She golf linASs' in place of a belt tiet
 around through the belt loops Asair
 women buy them in sets of three tt
 make shirt waists.
 Many of the red silk bandanna
 now shoWn-and these silk bandanna
 are produced in various others color
 as welfare very beautiful. Anon:
 the simpler handkerchiefs are thos
 found in various solid colors that ar
 known as diamond tie spots.
 such bandanna, which might b
 orange colored Or green or lavende
 or red, has scattered upon 1t at regu lar intervals diamonds of white wher
 the silk has not been dyed Thes
 white diamonds are made or left i
 the handkerchief by lieing the sil there tightly around, so that the sil under the tie cant be reached by tn coloring when the handkerchief i dipped in the dye pot
 Then there are handkerchefs witt silk ill gray. giving a gray effect hal mourning; and then there are the greater number of these handker- chiefs the red bandannas, with de vices and patterns in great variety of designs. all these other than those of the diamond tie spots being print ed on the handkerchiefs from blocks upon which the design is first drawn
 Among the red bandannas are still to be found some with the old time quaint palm leaf pattern and many more with patterns and tracelies in great variety, odd Or simple graceful and beautiful Handkerchiefs in what apper to be new patterns are receiv- ed from tina to tima but tha.a ono