Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-07
SERGE EMBROIDERED WITH METAL.

serge frock fashionable: up until last
October we did not touch up blue serge
with colored embroidery. We added
touch of black and another Of white
| and considered the costume complete.
| This is not the case today. Premet
| touched up blue serge with scarlet and
| orange floss and then added a necktie
| of colored velvet with metal ends.
Last spring this idea was repeated in
| serge frocks. but 1T was rather over
done. The American buyers brought
J over models that were ostentatiously
I decorated with colored silks and metal
| women turned from them. The simple
! blue serge frocks were adopted, and
| those who wanted to be dressed bit
different from their neighbors made
| every effort to keep adornment from
| the long lines of dark blue cloth; many
women even omitted the high white
collar of organdie and preferred shall
| low waistcoats OF pearl gray and bis
| cult co1ored satin that fastened straight
up the front from chin to waist
Serge Embroidered in Gold.
One of the novelties in materials is
a serge stamped with metal flowers It
is not artistic. Serge can never be any
thing but an everyday material. as is
tweed, or cheviot, or homespun; gold
has no place with them. The idea Of in
cooperating metal threads with threads
Of serge is based evidently on a de-
sire to get something novel and COM
mercial1y valuable, and not on in
trfnsic merit.
And yet. despite the fact that the de-
signers thought this gold-stamped
serge was inappropriate, they have
taken up the idea of embroidering
serge frocks in faint design Of metal
The sketch shows one of the new
French frocks that is strikingly like
the high-priced models that were eX
hibited in America last autumn. 1t Is
la brown serge, instead of blue. which
is the departure from the ordinary Of
which every woman who is tired of
blue should take cognizance.
It's blouse and skirt are put together
on one belt. which is placed at the nor
NAL waist line and covered by a wrin-
killed. belt of brown leather. The lines
of a jacket are given to the frock by
means of narrow bands of gold en-
broidery. which extend from shoulders
to hips The skirt has fitted yoke
which is headed by band of gold en-
broidery.
The sleeves are long and flare at the
wrist, which seems to be newer trick
than to hold them in snusly at the
hand.
The collar is a difficult one for every
woman to wear: it is cut in one piece
with the frock, frightening the shoul-
der lines. and is lined with coraea ,
white silk where it turns away from
the neck: 1t is caught in front with
cravat of brown leather.
If woman likes the model of this
frock but prefers to omit the gold en-
broidery. she can adopt silk cord or
soutache braid as a substitute for the
metal Both of these are very much IN
fashion and there are many 1ndlcatlons
that all kinds of intricate braiding will
It may please women to know that
the walking skirt with one deep
fiounce, pleated or circular. will be
equally in fashion with the circular
skirt. 1t gives the home dressmaker
a better chance and it gives every
woman a hope that she can keep the
hem of her walking skirt on an even
line after a few weeks of service.