Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
What Paris Offers, In Styles
By May Manton

DARIS is showing new costumes
this week and all sorts of cabled
reports are reaching these shores.
As matter of course, there will be
great many garbled accounts and
many statements made that will not
be verified later, but those of us who
are accustomed to the sitting process
are able to CLEAN certain truths and to
realize what may be taken as indi-
cative of the coming season, and is
therefore, of especial interest. I'm
doubtedly, the greater number of
readers are enjoying the late season
and wearing sports costumes and
they will not feel very deep interest
in velvet and in fur, but the subject Of
dress is always one of interest and now
and again we look forward even when
summer pastimes hold us enthralled.
That there will be great deal OF
velvet worn is an established fact, both
for street costumes and for gowns.
also the street suits will show great
many of the velvet finished wool cloths
as duvetyn, velours and the like. Fur
is so much shown on advanced models
and so much talked that one wonders
from whence the supply is to come.
Mole, seal and imitation seal, and close
haired furs of the sort are the pre-
ferred ones for trimming, for the reason
that they lend themselves to all sorts
OF fabrics with greater ease than do the
long haired ones, but it is safe to say
that every kind OF skin will be worn.
The famous designer M. Rodier, has
put forth fur cloths too, that are ex-
ceedingly rich and handsome and
beautiful in color, sufficiently suggest
i've of fur to be utilized in the same
way without any hint Of that sort of
imitation which always is vulgar. The
Rodier fabrics stand for themselves.
They are not limitations in any vulgar
sense. They are meant to be utilized
after the manner Of fur, but that they
are woven materials is fully apparent
and fully understood. When it is
added that the French designers of the
highest repute are using them, their
value and their worth will be es-
tablished. We must have cloths Of
the sort, if we are to have a fur season.
Prolific as the woods are they cannot
yield never ending supply. Again.
conditions across the sea, are making
trapping, dyeing and all the pre-
limlnary stages of the fur season
difficult if not impossible. M. Rodier,
has come to our relief in this case, as he
has done many times before. His
fabrics always are beautiful and these
new ones undoubtedly will meet with
hearty welcome.
Fur trimmings are used in almost
numberless ways but there Is a very
marked tendency toward skirt finish,
either of a single wide band or OF a
succession OF narrow ones, the trimming
extending well up to the knees. Satin
suits will be very extensively worn.
Very beautiful models are made with
simple full skirts that are of the satin
Tor the lower part, but OF Georgette
crepe or other thin material for the
upper. The blouses combine the two
materials usually the sleeves being OF
the thinner and the coats are Of. the
satin. Taupe with moleskin makes 4
very beautiful effect. A handsome
costume shows that combination, the
fur being put on the skirt in first a
band approximately five inches in
width. above that in succession Of
narrower bands while the coat is made