The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-03
AMERICAN COTTON GOODS TURNED OUT IN NEW BEAUTY
Manufacturers Here Take Advantage Of the Opportunity
Created by the WarNovetes for Spring and Summer
Rival Foreign Made Materials in Quality and Design

remote and costly joys this year 1t
comes in smart colors and the texture
is good for tailored and semi-tailored
garments; as 1t promises well.
Then there are the rough surface.
rather heavy cottons Initiating closely
the wool tweeds and friezes. but most of
these are imports and coming from Brit
ish looms they are not so scarce as
French cottons.
Cotton corduroy, piques, weaves on
the order OF ratine and crepey weaves
striped In rough knot weave all promise
to be popular, and the piaues striped
narrowly in color are being consider
ably used for Southern outfits. 4 new
linen softer in texture than any we
have had is likely to meet with great
success and all the familiar linens are
offered, though the soft, heavy cotsons
are likely to rival them in favor since
they adjust themselves more readily to
the new fulness in skirts.
1t will be interesting to see what
happens to those skirts when summer
models arrive. The sheer muslins. soft
stuffs like crepes. voiles, &C., will be
easily handled, for. though circular cut
is impractical for sheer cotton goods.
straight fulness. founces and general
billowing amplitude are suitable for
such materials II the fashion makers
insist upon our subscribing 10 them.
With heavy eottons and linens the sit
ustion is different, and especially If
they are to be made up with a view
TO tubing possibilities circular or
even partly circular cut IS hardly to
be considered by the wise.
Well. we shall see what we shall
see Meanwhile the advance models
for Southern use show nothing radi-
caliy new. except in some cases their
materials.
OF course, there are many white
serges. white gabardines, white coTdu-
roys. and. thiss year, many white broad
cloths too. but they are made up ON
the lines familiar through the late sea-
son models in covert, sand color and
white. cloth. with perhaps some dis
tingushing note III buttons. pockets.
collar and belt. The short coats seem
to lead and the popular covert models
and sporting models are duplicated In
white
Sports suits Of bright colored one
tone Irish frieze are being included
among the Southern costumes, and the
bright colored corduroys, in softly gay
rose light clear blues and greens, are
made up into clever little costumes
either ON sports suit lines or in style
slightly more formal, as illustrated in
the short wasted jaunty suit of rose
corduroy sketched for this page.
The short waist line which has sp~
peared in many smart coats since the
beginning of the season in featured in
and short wasted frocks i'm muslin, tai
feta. &c. are many Some Of the very
sheer soft hordered vosies and other
cottons are made with straight fuli
skirts with the border around the bot
tom and little short waists or which
the bordered stuff forms only a bib or
lower section. while the upper part of
the bodice and the little pulled sleeves
are of tine cream net, daintily corded
and sllirred after the fashion beloved
of our grandmotherS.
Ii the euesses Of American designers
are right and Paris designers follow mp
their moves nj las; season, il viii be
possible for the fnodish modern girl to
hook extraordinarily like her own grand
neither this summer. but the mode will
not he accepted by every one and the
skirt fulness IN many Of the new models
confines Hse.f to straight clinging folds
with only enough fuiness to stamp
them as of the new vintage but with
no eSaggeration.