The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-24
FlOunced, Rucked and Muchly
ScallOped Creation.
SIMPLY RUN RIOT IN COLOR
DeIectable Clusters of Cherries
or Tiny Silken Apples.
Mad Passion for Hand Painted
Claims Them Too.
BY MAGARET MASON.
written for the United Press.

Her pretty puffy petticoat
First seems to make Priscilla float.
But in crowd such breadth to tate
Now seems to make her soar" you'll note.
New York, June 24.-Petticoats
are now making up with a vengeance
for any past discrepa ncies. The poor.
scant, transparent things that last
season passed for such wouldn't
serve as one ruffle on the fluffy, ruff
fly, hoped. puffed, flounced, ruched
and scolloped creations that now
hide their lightness, not under a
bushel, but under barrel skirt
Taffeta for it's crispness makes most
acceptable pettis and when adequate
ly corded and OF sufficient fullness,
needs no wiring to give 1t that de-
sired hoopy effect
Two lovely ones that seem just to
have been pluckco blooming IN the
garden are a pink one which IS a
mass of petal shaped scollops, tier on
tier, like an inverted rose; and one in
yellow points like a daffodil. All
shades of lave nder, violet, purple,
mauve and orchid, corded within an
inch of their life and their entire
surface, are edged in silken fringe,
pinked ruchings or picot edged frills
and quillings.
Net and Ribbon Most Enhancing.
Indeed you can just turn your fan
cies loose on your petticoat and let
them run riot, provided they run
| around
| Petticoats of net and ribbon are
most enhancing. Some are of null
titudinous net ruffles run through al
their headings with narrow picot rib
| bons of pale blue orchid, pink and
| maize while others are made Of puff
fings of net run on fine wire alter
mating with wide bands of gorgeousll
embroidered ribbons.
Some petticoats show an Eve-like
penchant for first fruits and boast q
| lavish display of tiny silken apples
tucked hither and yon in smother
of frills. A bright purple petticoat is
particularly delectable with clusters
of bobbing silken cherries growing il
| a Burbankish manner near the limbs
of peach.
Chaste white petticoats as froth,
| with lace as a foaming stein CLEAN
with the sheen of wash satin between
their ;aciness and blossom occasional
| ly with a tiny ribbon or beaded rose
or French garland
Frivolous truly are the petticoat:
made of narrow ribbons sewed togeth
er lengthwise over the hips and ther
allowed to fall in a loose fringe effec
over a wide flounce of chiffon ant
lace.
Embellished by Manipulating
Even the petticoat hasn't ESCAPED
the mad passion for handpaintet
adornment and many of the chiffol
and delicate tinted taffeta ones TO
evening wear bloom in water colo
flora. All of the petticoats aren't a
black as they are painted but the real
ly black ones are as ebonesque a
black net, chiffon, lace and jet bead
can fashion them.
Some of the newest petticoats ar
held in such suspense that they ar
perilouSly near to pants. For Xix
| pants they are hung from fair shoul
ders by honest to goodness regular sils
penders. The suspenders, except tina
they are made of the same silk as tn
petticoat proper, Cor improper it de
ponds how you look at it) are replica
of those worn by our petticoatles
peers.
Truly with divers pettis clingin
pant like to suspenders, while other
are puffy as can be, it's no wonde
the most of them take our breat
away.