The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-03
LOUD SILKS ARE
SPRING. DECREE
Also MiIadi Is Expected On Pa
rade With Hat With Two
Foot PlumeS

FOOt FiulTleS
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.
And v e as the silk worms slave
30 also mere men do,
Both night and day they toll away
For Si1ken robes for you.
Proud beauties, do not then diSdatn
The lowly of the earth,
For worms and even husbands, too,
All have their little worth.
New York. Feb. 2S.-The spring
maid has COM to town shimmering
in silken sheen. Into a Vatican
ShepherdeSs. a natter beauty. a gay
marQuise or a Dolly Warden, the new
silk mode gowns will turn you for
they are all built on the piquant frilled
and panniered lines OF these periods
and the silks themselves are adorabiy
sprigged and lowered and striped.
You simply can't be plain Jane this
season and be in style at the same
time, for there isn't a plain silk among
the whole bewildering display.
The bright hued Roman striped eff
feCts are the SnarteSt, while the deli
cate rainbow tinted taffetas. soft as
charmeusc, blooming with tiny gar
lands and rosebuds tied with true low
ers' knots or peeping from quaint lit
tie shepherdess baskets are perfect for
the ruchings and p%anniers and Wat
teau pleatS OF the present picturesque
models.
"GOlfne'' Like Corduroy.
Silk crepes striped, lowered, bro
caded and embroidered offer alluring
inducements among the new materials
and a decided innovation is a fabric
called "goline,' which is an Affection
material and has a corduroy effect
with a heavy velvet looking stripe on
a thin background like crepe. 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
plu1nes and feather fancies actually
stick up two feet i'll the air. The
straw shapes are hard little tight little
affairs that turn UP at d angle
close to the crowns, when they have
any: for the crownless hats worr
casually and internlittent1y By tht
most extreme dreSserS In Paris las
season have now reached us with {
vengeance and in profusion. In mos
cases they are mere head bands viii
high outstanding ruches OF tune o.
moire silk all the way around or jus
on n side to suit your taste or your
face.
-.. Barbed- Like Quilts.
Because Of the playful custom o.
the customs officers to pluck all feath
ers, by fair means or fowl, from tn
incoming French chapeauS, the new
models from the Rue de la Paix az
} shy Of feathers and profuse in tn
products Of fora or Pomona. Camel
las, pink or white, are h Snlartes
iioWers, while tiny lemons and life
sized oranges seem to be the favored
fruits. Qnills being permissible, how
ever, they are used to literally killing
ways. Poised at such barbarous an
/ giles are they hat an unfortuIat
A male or female in close proximity t
= one Of these quilted torture bonnet
! max not hope to escape without tn
loss of at least n eye.
Your nasal appendase seems t
D have become the i~mpregnabIe bound
: airy line beyond which no really fash
ionable veil may pass. You mus
/ either wear q harem Vel whose heaV
e ilv embroidered net covers the lowe
: half 81 YOUR face and leaves only YOU
e ewes exposed OF the newest little com
I nlexion wells which are draped ove
the tiny hrimless turbans and high
d crowned hats and cover the uppe
: part Of your ~phy3:ognomy to the 10
: Of your nose.
h In both Instances your Roman o
: retrousse feature, whichever the typ
= MAY be, gets under the veil by q nal
II row margin and thus saves its SKI
from a Sun-burned season.
: This halfway taking Of the We
ouoh, RI make a decided hit with tn
G damsel whose features aren't all quit
nh TO t;recian standards. BY simpl
Y playing both ends against the mlddl
f She is sure to win either by a coupl
It of orhs or a pair OF red lips.