Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-23
LEANING TOWARD MEMS
ACCESSORIES IS MARKED
No Lady's Coat Is Complete in These
Days Without swagger White
Waistcoat, Says Margaret Dixon.
SLIT IN SKIRT OF MOMENT
GRADUALLY FADING AWAY.
Platinum for Wedding Rings, Instead Of
Gold, Is Latest Freak of Fashion
in Up-to-Minute Circles.
BY MARGARET MASON.
written for the United Press

| mere man has seen Dame Fashion
From his wardrobe fine points seek
To placate tickle females
! Always new styles she must eke-
His walking stick she seized on
And evolved those skirts unique
That ape his neither garments
In manner very chic;
Pockets, Gladstone collars, shirts.
She's adopted with much check
And now his pique waistcoats-
Do you wonder he feels pique2
New York, March 23.-In spite of
the fussy femininitj of frills, puffs
and ruffles so prevalent on all the silk
and lingerie frocks and even on the
suits of MORE, taffeta and serge the
leaning toward masculine accessories is
becoming more and more marked.
No coat suit is complete or smart
these days without its swagger white
waistcoat of pique or linen with
flaring collar attached OF course all
of the waistcOats are rot of washable
materials but those that are promise
to have the sanction of popularity.
More and more you see the walking
stick, slightly longer than its masculine
prototype, being taken in girlish and
matronly hands. Indeed at many OF
dansants you see some of the most mod
ishly gotten up dancers tripping tho
light fantastic and tripping literally
thus encumbered.
You have long applied the adjectivcs
modest and shrinking to the sky violet
but the modern violet shade now affect
ed so universally by the 1914 belle, is
as violent and blatant and unshrinkable
as guaranteed dye will make it. There
is great run on all the shades from
royal purple to tender lavender with
the fruity effects of grape, prune and
plum to boot.
While it has not yet quite vanished
from sight the slit in the skirt of the
moment is gradually fading into a passe
stage. The very latest skirt is the
hustled one pulled up shorter behind
and thus allowing room to step which
was formerly granted by the slit. The
skirts are raised well above the heels
in the rear and afford ample room for
walking. Where slits are still seen
their regulation length is 10 inches
just a foot for two feet.
Nothing seems safe from the tickle
fingers Of fashion, Now it's the wei.
ding ring that is having the changes
rung Not content with restricting
its change of style to its width as here.
tcfore fashion has decreed that gold is
no longer the chic material, Hence
the nuptial band of platinum will ca
circle the third left finger of all fash.
ionable 1914 brides if the bridegroom
knows what's what,
The tiny little summer coats and
wraps for wear over the lacy film Of
lingerie frocks are almost too adorable
to be adequately described in cold
words.
They are as limp and sfimpsy as rags
but they are royal rags indeed. The
most delectable ones are built Of gaily
dyed and flowered silk crepe and aie
lined with contrasting shade Of chif.
fon They are all reversible aud whom
worn with the chiffon side out tho
flowered glories of the crepe glow
through seductively One exquisite
crepe Of old gold patterned in white,
pink and blue blossoms is shirred in
loose puff around the neck and kimona
sleeves and hangs ike little loose
sack to tho waist line where It ia again
finished with shirrcd putting,
IL is lined in old blue chiffon Two
dolman-likc wraps, one of shimmering
silver grey the other of peach blow,
are fashioned from that aluring fabric,
called poau dc pocho, which in common
or garden American means peach skin.
Needless to mention, these airy little
wrap trifles are worth more than their
weight in gold, The chiffon aud
crepe ones actually weigh not more than
a bit Of down while their price ranges
from $50 TO $50, Given length Of
chiffon and flowercd crepe, however,
and She is stupid feminine who cannot
fashion for herself a Partisan creation
that dcfies detection,
Since Il is now case Of "The tango
in dead long live thc Maxixo" tn.
entwhile tango frock has been christ.
ned up TO date by the name Of "ciro
IN sept Translated this reads. GIVE
70 scycu' meaning thcsc golden two
hours sacred to tea and toes.
HANDING PORTLAND WILDCAT