The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-06

over on the left shoulder with buttons
of grey velvet and the design of souA
tache which trims it is outlined on the
lower edge with ball trimming This
me new sleeve with bouffant elbow,
which is striving for a position in fall
styles, is shown in this.
Mrs Hattie Britt Hale of La Crosse.
was admitted Thursday to the
practice of law in the supreme court
Of the state. Mrs. Hale is promi-
nent club woman. and was last term
vice president of the state federation,
where her work in the educational de-
partment has made her to be re-
embered as one of the most efficient
officers the federation ever had.
X x
The annual fashion show at the
Grand opera house, at which Madame
Savarie presides, has become an event
OF wide interest among the women Of
Topeka. The lecture for this season
was given Thursday afternoon, and
Madame Savarie is at the head of the
Wooltex House, of Paris, and comes
here to lecture while she is in this
country at the instance of the Mills
company She is an excellent speaker,
with pleasing voice and manner and
illustrates in her own person and the
beauty OF her gowns, the dignity of
her profession. She spoke of the origin
OF the tailored suit, that is so popu-
lar in America and which the French
people so long hesitated to adopt She
said: 1--WE have borrowed the fashion
Of tailored clothes from the English
women who live on country estates a
large part of the year, who being fond
OF outdoor sports, adopted a form of
dress that was not ornamental but
justified itself by its appeal to common
sense The French have been obliged
to yield to the public demand for
tailored suits and have lent to them
by their own skill and ingenuity GER
tain beauty of outline that combines
Well with the utility feature
In America, all women dress well
clothes, While in Europe, the stores do
not even display their pretty gowns
except to their customers when they
are pretty sure of making a sale. So
it is that in this country you have
but to go down the street and look in
OF the windows to see what is fash
ionable. In France, women want to
wear the newest style in garments, but
in America most women must wait be-
fore adopting a new fashion, until 9TH
ers with more initiative have first ia
ken it up Then the style is copied in
definitely until all the women are
dressed alike. with perfect disregard to
what is becoming. The same thing is
true of hair dressing. In a Paris the
alter, all the women seem to have their
hair dressed differently, but in this
and the backs of all the heads look
alike"
Madame Savarie gave as some of the
principal features of this seasons
gowns, that the skirts would be little
wider than last year; that the slender
silhouette will continue to be fashion
able; that great variety of materials
and models viii be used, and that it
will be especially good style to com,
bine laceS for trimming. Light and
heavyweight laces, also black and
white laces will be used in combina-
ton on the same gowns. She tells us
that white waists will be worn with
suits, and that the old idea of the
blouse matching the suits in color, is
passed. Artificial flowers for the cor
sage will be more than ever worn this
season. She had with her three mod
els for the display of her gowns and
wraps One CT them wore a brown
fur cloak with a collar of beaver, made
to look like sea otter If the collar
had been real instead of a substitute,
the material in that part of the gar
ment alone. would have cost a thou
sand dollars.
Women went from the show to a
party yesterday afternoon. were
pumped for information about the
new styles by those who were enter |
tanning and could not be there, and all
the talk was Of what we are going to
wear.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dixon enter |
tanned few friends Wednesday even
ing in honor of Mr.. Herbert McFaul, of |
Kingston, Canada, who was their guest /
this week. He returned to his home /
Mr.. McFaul is Mrs. Dixon's /
cousin.
To be asked to dance in the Kirmess
is regarded by the girls as compIi- I
ment. and justly so; for it means that
they are selected from among the most
q n raf
them have decided that the glory of
the situation is somewhat dimmed |