Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-20
BY MARGARET MASON
Written for the United Press)

I y uSI lulilhy bl&S INA ttAS NAo"AiasS> wa 49,
What would your clothes be worth!
Dame Fashion has decreed that silk
This spring shall be the thing,
And this is where the wee silk worms
Now have their little fling.
Both night and day they toll away
To clothe you for the ball,
And for the street in silk complete
They never rest at all,
And even as the silk worms slave
! So also mere men do
Both night and day they toll away
For silken robes for you.
Proud beauties do not then disdain
The lowly of the earth,
For worms and even husbands, too,
All have their little worth.
New York, Feb. 20.-The spring
maid has come to town shimmering in
silken sheen and even as the song of
the first robins is heard on every lint
SO is the rustic of taffeta heard on.
every li---er hand. Into a Vatican
shepherdess, natter beauty, gay
Marquise or Dolly Warden, the new
silk model gowns will turn you for
they are all built on the piquant frilled
and panniered lines of these periods
and the silks themselves are adorably
sprigged and fowered and striped. You
simply can't be plain Jane this sea-
son and be in style at the very same
time, for there isn't plain silk among
the whole bewildering display.
The bright hueds Roman striped eff
fects are the smartest of the new silks
while the delicate rainbow tinted taf-
fetas. soft as charmeuse, blooming
with tiny garlands and rosebuds tied
with true lovers knots or peeping from
quaint little shepherdess baskets are
perfect for the ruchings and panniers
and Vatican pleats of the present pie
turesque modes.
Silk crepes striped, fiowered, bro
caded and embroidered offer alluring
inducements among the new materials
and decided innovation is a fabric
called "golfine," which is an all cotton
material and has corduroy effect
with heavy velvet looking stripe on
a thin crepey background. The same
effect in silk is called "railine."
AS for the hats, those that strive
for the greatest heights of favor seem
to be those that SIMPLY strive for the
greatest heights On some the ostrich
plumes and feather tactics actually
stick up two feet in the air. The straw
shapes are hard little tight little af
fairs that turn up at odd angles close
to the crowns when they have any; for
the crownless hats worn casually and
intermittently by the most extreme
dressers in Paris last season have now
reached us with vengeance and in
profusion. In most cases they are mere
head bands with high outstanding
ruches of tulle or moire silk all the
way around or just on one side to
suit your taste or your face.
Because of the playful customs of
the customs to pluck all feathers, by
fair means or fowl, from the incoming
chapeaux the new models from the
Due de la Paix are shy of feathers
and profuse in the products of Flora
of Pomona. Camellias, pink and white,
are the smartest flowers, while tiny
lemons and life sized oranges seem to
be the favored fruits. Quilts being per-
missible, however, they are used in
literally killing ways. Poised at such
barbarous angles are they that an
unfortunate male or female in close
proximity to one of these quilted tor
ture bonnets may not hope to escape
without the loss of at least one eye.
Your nasal appendage seems to have
become the impregnable boundary line
beyond which no really fashionable
veil may pass. You must either wear
harem veil whose heavily embroid-
cred net covers the lower half of your
face and leaves only your eyes eX-
posed or the newest little complexion
wells which are draped over the tiny
brimless turbans and high crowned
hats and cover the opper part of your
physiognomy to the tip of your nose.
In both instances your Roman or re-
trousse feature, whichever the type
may be, gets under the veil by mar
row margin and thus saves the skin
from a sunburned season.
This halfway taking of the veil
ought to make decided hit with the
damsel whose features aren't all quite
up to Grecian standards. By simply
playing both ends against the middle
she is sure to win either by couple
of orbs or pair of red lips.