Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
Fringe IN
GARMENTS To
Be FASHIONABLE
To Be Fashionable, You Must Get
On The Ragged Edge.
BY MARGARET MASON
written for the United Press).


written for the United Press).
Her parasol is edged with fringe
And she's fringe on her dainty gown;
Ier curling lashes fringe her eyes
And she lives on the fringe of town.
New York, June 2.-To be on the
fringe of society is the last thing one
could wish, but to have on the fringe
of fashion is the latest thing one could
wish.
Indeed it seems as if fringe were
infringing on the popularity of all O.
Their trimmings.
The fringed frocks is omnipresent
and boasts anything from tiny edging
Of vivid hued yarn fringe to a deep
fringe of silk, either black or of a
tone to match or contrast with the
gown.
1t is used effectively on the bottoms
Of wide skirts and to edge the bell
shaped sleeves.
One stunning model shows an en-
tire overskirt of knotted silk fringe
of yellow, black, blue, green and old
rose over petticoat of turquoise-blue
chiffon. The sleeves are mere shreds
of fringe and the apology for a bodice
is a scrap of the turquoise chiffon.
The new wide cape collars are edg-
ed with narrow, colorful fringe; hats
have a narrow yarn fringe edging and
I even glimpsed a swagger damsel
who wiped her up-tilted up-to-date
nose on a handkerchief of pale mauve
with tiny old blue edging of thread
fringe. Fringe is certainly up to
snuff.
On the loose long taffeta coats and
wraps either for day or evening wear
the fringe is vieing with the pinked
ruchings as q finish but it is as a fin
ish for parasol perhaps that fringe
reaches its truly highest point.
One smart sunshade of emerald
green taffeta is built on the fiat, many
ribbed Chinese parasoi lines with a
blunt little sauhnosa ebon ferule and
a long knob-fnished hanIle OF the
same glossy black.
A bright green silk cord is lnotted
round the handle, with a fitting loop
through which its owners fair arm is
meant to stick when she shuts up her
sunshade in shady byways and choos-
es to dangIe it at arms length,
The real finishing touch Of this ade-
quately lovely parasol however, is an
edging of three inch black silk fringe
that brooks no infringement of The
suns rays across the summer girls
cOuntenance.
A zebraesque sunshade is one of
black and white striped 1affeta The
stripes radiate outward from the cen
ter and end in a fringe of alternate
black and white stripping to match the
silk. The handle to this is of white
with a black knob at the top.
A cerise parasol fringed like the
black and green one is also very stun
ming though a bit prone to cast a too
rosy glow over healthy countenance
No one may expect to look pale and
interesting under cover of a cerise
sunshade.
A shell pink taheta sunshade that
is a mass of petal shaped scallops like
a huge pink rose just add the pink of
perfection to a summer tailette Of
white net and pink picot ribbon, but
a shade deeper it is wiser not to 60
A purple satin parasol yelled in a
film of black Spanish lace with a
quaint purple glass knobbed stick, in
Fifth avenue window is a replica
Of great grandmother's that now
moulders in the attic and proves the
aphorisEn that there's nothing new I'M
der the sun-not even a 1916 parasol