Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-16
FADS AND FASHIONS
BY MARGARET MASON
(Written for the United Press)

There are clocks upon her stockings
Her skirt is ticking too.
Indeed a much more timely maid
'Twere hard TO find for YOU.
NEW YORK, July 16.-Stop, look
and listen! Have you heard the new
skirt?-its ticking. It's quite loud.
It's fast too-fast colors. Mostly col.
ored in blue and white stripes like the
OstermOors are made Of. There are
other color combinations in all the
new shades combined with white that
summer girls than covering tn" husks
and breakfast food of 4 summer mat
tress.
Worn with tho sheer white or:andie
pastel tinted batiStc or linen these
ticking skirts are particularly good.
They are usually made with the quaint
and yet practical applied side pockets
of the present mode and are ideal for
the country. the shore or any sport rs
we'll rs being equally appropriate and
smart for morning town and street
wear. With cretonne and ticking both
being so extensively worn the old ad,
age Make your bed and lie in it,
must needs now be Shangcd to "un-
make your bed and dress in it," The
sist OF the matter i'll a few words is
IL y-nti NsnI1I Ia, .tf, ,,.n,. tf,1. c.
hasten and set tick on you even if
you have to first get it on tick.
1t seems as if Dame Fashion were
kidding us. III our weakest spot, too
very newest of the new tiny turbans
you already know its Il kid without
my telling you. Dainty little all white
kid affairs / the very smartCst kind
with a close second in a magpie blacl;
and white kid combination. Others
there are developed in kid OF any deli
cate pastel shade but it is the all
white kid hat that has The sanction
of most fastidious approval.
Before We pass tho hat entirely il
is well to mention The broad brimmed
chateau so prevalent for the nonce
that is made of an open work straw
mesh not unlike Il basket but nearer a
replica of the common or garden cane,
seat in a kitchen chair. They come in
all colors and their brims are bound
in a contrasting tint of ribbon. They
are simply trimmed in a posy or so
or a mere band of The same binding
ribbon around the Crown.
Mrs. Vernon Castle has the respons-
Utility for this faddy CONNECTION at her
door along with 81 many other charm.
ingly quaint sartorial intersections.
1t is + that the summer girl af-
fecting this cane seated hat is apt
TO be spotted both by the son of man
and the sun of heaven. But after all
what could be more DELIGHTFULLY."- ap.
prOpriatc than that the seat of a
maids intelligence be cane seated as
'twere.
At least the glove like Italian silk
so long used to the shaping of un.
DEPARTMENTS has burst its lingerie
bounds and stepped into the outer
garment class. 1t is now being not
only for lovely long sweater like sport
coats and Norfolk Jacket effects in all
the brightest hucs but stunning
blouscs are now fashioned of it in
lovely tones of Old blue. gold and
rose. Not 10 mention many chaste
bodices of pure white and a few in
the same flesh tints that are decided.
ly reminiscent of it's undergarment
uses.
Just why This loosely mcshed and
woven silk should be dubbed Italian or
Milanese silk is indeed a poser since
it is an unknown quantity as we'll as
quality in the land of buried Caesars.
with underwear material being so
ilagrantly pressed into service for out.
erwear ii is obvious that an exclusive
new material be evolved for wear next
to the skin. Judging from a sample
OF flesh colorod slikCn garments eX.
posed in the Fi:;h Avenue lingerie
shop should say that the newest op.
en- work lace mesh silk now offered
for next to skin wear Is also next to
nothing.