The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
PLENTY OF ONIONS
Anything Spanish Right in
Style This Spring.
Last Year 1t Was Chinese
-BOrneO Fashions Next.
EVERY GIRL TO BE SENORITA
But at That They'll Be Bully
Those Hispanic Gowns.
But, Oh Dear. the Poor Blondes
Pity Them!
EVERY GIRL TO Be SEkORITA
tRY MARGARET MAsoNl


The ladies. Lord love 'em, this season
would fain
Dress just like the beauties in sunny
old Spain;
And 50 Yetta Goldstein and Mollie
AIcShane
And Gretchen Won Schmidt and Fiji
Are perfect HIspanics when not called
by name.
New York. Feb 11.-Sing Ho for
the Spanish main. for anything Span
ish is the main thing in the new trend
of fashion. Last season we were all
to the Chinese and goodness knows
where we will be season after next
AT the pace they are going it looks as
if the designers would soon be sitting
around on their launches and weeping
a la Alexander the Great for more
worlds 10 copy
Personally it strikes me Borneo
fashions might be smart for the sum-
mer season. but the designers are
probably holding them in reserve for
the winter months But to return TO
Spain; even as Spanish omeIette the
fashion designers are undoubtedly be-
ing egged on to the Spanish modes by
the recent production of that much
| heralded Spanish opera, -Goyesca," at
the Metropolitan Opera house Incl
dents in the life of Goya and his paint
ings inspired the opera. the opera in
spired our present fashions and so Mr..
Goya is really the responsible party.
Goya was the father OF twenty chill
dren, one of the most favored lovers
of the Duchess of Alba and great
artist Not for these achievements,
however. is he now known TO fame
but as the designer of these feminine
frocks and frills for 1916.
Quantities of Spanish lace. both
white and black, are used in flounces
on the new old Spanish gowns which
are copied outright from old portraits
by Goya and Velasquez. One of the
French houses offers a gown which is
a replica of that worn by the Infanta
| in Nelesquez's most famous portrait
! The gown is dubbed Velesquez and il
| is wired out over the hips in the same
exa ggerated manner as the portrait
In fact almost all of the frocks witt
| Hispanic tendencies show this wiring
over the hips and the bodices are tight
/ boned and pointed.
Crude, strong tones of yellow, red
green and orange are used to get tht
4 true Spanish effects and mantillas
| scarfs and sashes of gay hues. high
series after the fact Stunning even
/ ing wraps and negligees are fashioned
out of the gorgeously embroidered
/ Spanish shawls and in some instance.
they are even made into evening
gowns verify reeking of Carmen anC
( bull fight.
Indeed all the Spanish fashions ar,
bully
1 Considering the shortage of dye
and the fact that all the real blue
blooded senoritas are raven tressed
this is bound TO be a closed season TO
blondes. and peroxide peaches will al
stop trying to conceal their dark pasts
With our characteristic whole sou
manner of entering entirely into tn
spirit and atmosphere of a new mod
have no doubt that even our die
will now smack of the Spanish ten
dency toward onions, omelettes. mack
erel and sweet peppers Our foxtrot
and one steps will give way to the fan
dango. our national sport becoming
throwing the bull and our Irene Cas-
tie go around looking like a castle il
SDai