The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

these cunning little people with the big courage that is 90 necessary to push along the wheel of fashion.
 They over-accentuate and exaggerate. 1t is true but to impress the idea that is necessary just as Billy Sunday does in his line of endeavor. After. ward, when one has inoculated others with the idea, the exaggeration and over-emphasis are taken out and the new idea in full strength and real beauty is all that remains.
 On this line of thought one logically at this point takes the matter of things decorative in fashion I know there number who say often of many of my things a@-s,.. are ''so impractical" Now. a person w r.. ly i-> ,ses to be decorative is. as a rule. nov. busi>ess 2e-son. Her only aim is to be decorativ and attf act attention. But always in her decoratsa 1ashion is the and original idea and alws elat idea can be adapted to the need of othes:. pot so decorative not wish to attract Cd much attention That is the fashion-toned sSl refined to suit the world on the ~-ae Of the tootlights and still retain ing all i originality and charm.
 Look this new window pane hat. Of course, can hes. some of you American ladies exclaiming Never But let me hasten tc explain. This may not be <, you personally. but please understand that this and many other striking things are worn --e5t snnoteed at the J-aris meet ings and i , the medication and the adaptation of these tha, veEtuaIy reach Ame rica, as it's mod.
 
 This window pane hat is nothing more or less than an eighteenth century form worn so low over the face that it is impossible for to without the transparency in front. It is composed of pea. cock blu. aerofane silver colored fan of very fine transparent composition somewhat like cellu.
 Ibid, the blue giving particularly attrac. , tive appearance to the eyes inside. The back is turned up with large bouquet of flowers 7 that repeats the garland around the front.
 In the top right hand corner have another of the zebra effects spoke of the other week-tn black indestructible vole. She reminds one of the white queen in Alice in Wonderland, with the Va Dyke underskrt ard her graduated tub shape figure. The white lines are composed of Russian braid. Black and white buttons follow the entire way down the front both below and above the buckled waist band.
 The other photograph is a natural colored tussore faced with black and white. She has the most queer aeronaut collar rather like the top of her sacque being complete circle many sizes too large for the head and with strap and buckle that tighten it in much the same way that mailbag is closed. The same buckle appears again at the wrist and leaves at the neck an unevenly pleated friH She wears black tagal hat, with martial plume
 The parasoi is very, very long one. And that reminds me to say that parasols are to be this what they always ought to be-real works of art. Both the paraso and the umbrella-did you know i?-are really of kingly and priestly origin. They were at first never intended for such common place uses as keeping off rain and No, indeed! They were umbrellas of honor, sacred umbrellas. parasols of the gods, and on. And because they were such high symbols the best artists and weav. CTS and craftsmen and jewel makers lavished their best work on them. Then the practical Occidental took them, and behold-art gave place to utility. But this year we are going back to origins-just as we are in dresses. You'll see some surprising of mine later on here I hope
 And 30 much for today.