Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

the popularity given to yeliows. Brown
and taupe will be used as neutral COL
ors. much as the French have used
black for q long while. and tan gloves
are expected TO be more worn than
white ones. This is good news for the
woman who is always declaring abroad
when she wears white gloves, This is
the first time I've worn them, and Just
looki" II one does look at madam's
hands the effect is apt to be a study in
black and white and not on the best
Whistler style. Covert and putty color
in cloth goods are going to run the
tans a close second IN popular favor.
Another color. a near relative of putty,
ID Irvine, that OF the familiar wrapping
string that ties up our packages.
The red series is particularly inter
esting. 1t ranges from orange tints TO
salmon and coral shades The new
nellrose color. named for Miss Eleanor
Wilson, is a red with a violet tinge
| that Is very beautiful as an evening
color or as a supplementary note on a
costume.
In blue, sapphire is the newest
shade. and some of the blues are so
dark and intense that they have the
| effect of black. Green is essentially q
1 spins SOlOE. III grass IlIIS anu IN u
slight blush tinge green will be extern
sively used.
The puppies have red and royal
tints in their makeup, and in each of
these shadings purple will be exceed
ingly popular.
Bordered effects are conspicuous
among the new materials. There are
stunning voiles and grapes printed by
hand in distinct patterns of Persian
coloring, with deep borders of boucle
work. The word boucle to the lay per-
son may convey no meaning. so II may
be well to explain. in passing. that the
name is applied to fabrics having lit
tie loops forming curls or rings over
its surface. Heretofore the boucle ef-
feet has been confined mostly to wool
en- materials. but this spring there are
silky stuffs and cottons in which the
boucle figures in the border. Instead
of being scattered hit or miss the bou-
Gle loops form the border design.
In most instances the makers of bor-
dered materials have been content Il
confine themselves on a single fabric
to one border, but this season a fab
rio may nave as many borders as ar
oriental rug. The uninspired dress
maker. however. is going to have hel
own time with these materials. thai
must be handled artistically II salts
factory effects are to be gained.
One, too. almost despairs of making
plain the mystery of the new drapeC
skirts. that are composed OF lengths o
soft material drawn into what one po
litely calls a skirt, yet resembles it IL
nothing except that II covers the form
The careless seeming folds are drawn
about diagonally. in many instances
with much grace from a belt line. ant
yet wave about as II not at all con
fined. The new draped skirts are, IL
reality. much wider than the skirts o
yesterday. but so cleverly arrange,
that they hang in straight lines.
Nine tenths OF the summer frock
will have fiounces of one sort or an
other. And just here is a very particu
lar point-fiounces are distinctly of on
sort. For another. and the only sort O
| founce that Is not seen, is the o.
fashioned gathered fiounce. Thre
times the width of the skirt was tn
regulation. but the 1913 flounce know
no such bouffancy. II is applied per
fectly fiat, and il it is the least bit full
er than the skirt the fullness is intro
| duCed warly by means of pin tucks O
shallow plaits pressed down very fla
Some of the flounces curve upwar
and wind around the skirt, and 1t
wonderful how the couturieres ge
these curved effects from straigh
lengths of machine embroidery mount
ed over net. reaching from the edge {
the skirt to the waist line, each nounc
\ curving upward toward the from
p | where there is panel OF wide em
, broidery banding from belt to hen
| This is only one of the many phases c
i the spring fiounce.
4 CATHERINE TALBOT.