Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-08

THE newest of parasols are shaped
very much like the old fashioned
large sized japanese paper-made
parasols Of brilliant coloring and wide
flatly spread tops. edged with an in
ordinate number Of spiky wooden rib
ends
This 1914 style is made of white
silk, very heavy in texture, and is
draped with a fiat festooning Of
white shadow lace This lace does
not fringe the parasol edge. II is laid
fiat upon the outside and caught In
pretty quaint old fashioned folds at
the point of intersection Of each
rib
Between the folds are painted deli
cately tinted Watteau-like Landscapes.
The effect is both dainty and unusual.
cutie in harmony with the oddness of
other fashion features which distin-
guish the season.
The long handles are other dlstin-
gushing features many of them
showing beautiful hand carved ivory
designs as well as colored wood and
enamel effects
Others are finished, as are the tips
of the ribs. with black eboniZed han
dies, elegantly banded with gold
which in turn, is engraved in con
Ventional style or else monogrammed
with the owners initials
The black line Of such a handle. to-
gether with the gold finished black
tipped rib ends, silhouetted against
the delicacy Of the beautiful hand
painted white silk parasol, is quite in
desCribable and most effective.
The "minaret" is another new par
asol of ambitious build-suggestiv Of
the shapes we were familiar with last
season under The name of pagods
parasols.
These newer types Of parasol pre-
sent an old friend with a new name
and a new dress. for the ribs seem to
be shaped in exactly the same fashion
as the pagoda, but are covered diff
ferenti~ with Chinese printed figured
colored taffeta silks and fringed with
colored wooden bead trimming or with
heavy silk edges.
Printed silk parasols In all the new
colorings vivid with clear color tones
rather than the gradations of pastel
coloring which we have been accus-
toned TO seeing are popular.
These are much more attractively
shaped than We're last years styles
and are most artistic in their combi-
nations OF color and trimmings.
Many Of them offer unusual designs
in black and white-in fact black and
white parasols as well as umbrellas
will have a very strong fashion fol-
lowing
These maybe effects are extremely
emart-esp eciallv those which feature
broad stripes of black and white,
either diagonally, vertically or baya-
deere placed.
Colored swisses are going to be
good this season. They come in neat
demure- looking all-over patterns in
Powered effects somewhat reminis-
cent of the designs seen in old Eng
lish chintzes. They will make up
beautifully in true Dolly Warden style
and are not expensive
II is interesting to note the plaid
ratines of unusually plant weave
among the spring cottons. We look
for plaids among the fall suitings as
rule, but here they are, some in pas
tel shades, others in pronounced col
orings. strongly in evidence among
the spring fabrics Tunic borders
and over-dresses of plaid in combi-
nation with the soft white cotton
Corduroys will be very smart looking.
An eponge in short effect showing
three or four colors and a Roman
stripe ratine make effective vestings
For plain summer suitings nothing
Will supersede the colored linens and
both the ramie and smooth Srench
weaves will be used.
English manufacturers of fine
leather goods are offering exquisite
novelties in travelling bags and cases
which are the diminutive in size of
the heavy old fashioned types of bags
-forbears-so to speak. They dub
these new. tiny miniatures vanity
cases" The responsibility for the
change lies with the modern taste
for motoring, for the woman of 1914
covers such distances, and her be-
longings must be SO moderate in size
and so easily packed, that designers
have been al work turning out the
most elegant as well as the most con-
venient form of toilet apparatus
The party bag is a mere tritie to
handle and looks almost like a hand
keTchisf in black MORE drawn in
with a ribbon II may be concealed
in coat pocket, or there would be
space for IL in a little handbag.
Within its folds are all the items that
go to give a woman the finishing
touch of perfection inseparable from
her standard of personal appearance.
just a little frame keeps all the gold,
silver gilt or enameled trifles to-
eether, and the contents are ali that
are required.
The prevailing taste leans to easily
folded or drawn bags, and some nov
elites consist of round models Of the
finest leather. Sc-~oft as TO crush in
TO next TO nothing Inside is a frame,