Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-18
FASHIONS CHANGE
LIKE HOUR GLASS
Margaret Mason Tells Of the
Fads and FOibles In Dress
Of Fashions Smart Set
By Margaret Mason.

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Prerogative of female kind,
Folks say, it is to change her mind.
But more these days, think you II
find,
10 change her waistline she's inclined
New York, Jan. 16.-0nce more the
glass of fashion threatens to become
an hour glass judging from the shadow
cast by coming Spring fashions. Hips
and busts are to be let out and given
the freedom Of the city and waists are
to be yanked or squeezed in inch by
inch. oh, there is really no mdestep-
ping it any longer, the popular figure
for 1918 is going to be the figure s.
And not only is the 1915 waistline
going to be content to be pinched in
its going to take flying leap from
the long or Moyen age line to the short
or Empire effect. Some jump, too,
from just above the hips to just below
the bust, not to mention the wasteful
skipping Of o few centuries from the
Middle Ages to the Empire period.
Almost all the perky little suits of
the omnipresent putty color cravanette
show the short.waisted effects with
cunning little strap-like belts just be-
low the armpits Suits Of white serge
for southern wear, and tan-tored pom
gees, now more popular than ever on
account of the fashionable penchant for
any shade that smacks of coffee, khaki,
sand, putty, tan or ecru tones, are all
short of waist and also Of jacket, the
latter either belonging to the abreviat.
ed box coat variety or falling short and
rippled from the encircling Emp
belt.
Little one-piece frocks and dresses of
silk or cotton fabrics are invariably
short wasted and long sleeved, with
full beruffled slSirts. Many Of them
also boast the high.collared neck, and
arrayed in one of these the New Year IS
girl will make her last years photo
graph look like an alien being.
You simply must get busy overhaul
ing your figure for you never can hope
to get by as n 1916 model with a last
year s chassis and tonneau, believe me.
Miss Browns in town and every.
thing is being done good and brown
this year, You simply must be in some
thing brown. If you can 7 do any bet
ter, be in brown study. All the new
| little earliest Spring hats that have
peeped out timidly amidst the biting
frosts are brown and sere as fallen
leaf They Hre almost all Of silk or
at least a combination of silk with a
brim or facing OF a crown of brown
straw Just to show which way the fa-
shionable wind will blow. Even timer
than their little winter sisters, these
newborn Spring chapeaux, So teensy
as to look as il they had been hatched
in hat incubator instead Of regular
factory or shop, They still show great
leaning toward the warlike turban and
helmet effects and fairly bristle with
their spiked and curaissed jauntncss.
| Another favorite model for the little
brown hat, however, is the old reliable
sailor shape in its smallest form. Eth
er garland of tiny French flowers cir.
Gle the crown or hand Of ribbon with
neat bow and stre0mers.
This bow and streamer OF ribbon on
the hats is too quaint and old-fashioned
for words and is used with killing ef.
feet on wide.brimmed fiat, floppy hats
as well as those Of LillputiNn proper.
tions. A charming little sailor Of ta-
basco brown straw needs nothing more
than band Of narrow old blue ribbon
with picot edge OF yellow simply
banding the tiny brown with neat
flat bow in the rear and fall Of two
streamers, one longer than the other, by
trio Of inches to make II the quint.
csscpcc OF smartness It's just as well
there will be something long about the
Spring maid Of 1915 even If it is mere
Ily a couple Of streaming ribbon ends
on her hat Goodness knows she q 60
ing to be short Of most everything wit
her "short" waist, her "short" skirt
and the new figure calling for new cor
sets that undoubtedly result in her be-
ing q little short Of hE0Rth.
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