The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-14
SMOCkS--S SHOCKS
ooh, She Is That Stripe!" Has
New Meaning Now.
Regimental Swagger Is Popular
With the Women.
PUT SING SING TO SHAME
Look Like Futurist Piece, "Nude
Descending Stairs"
Start Out All Right-Then the
Funny Business.
nv MARGARET MASON.

| written for the State JOurnai)
| Dame Fashion knits a soldiers stocking :;
With yarn that's left she does her
shocking.
Now don't you think this very shocking?
New York, July 14.-Perhaps. along
Ellis Parker Buffers line of reason
ing that pigs Is Pigs" you think thai
"smocks is smocks." But you are
wrong Shocks are no longer smocks,
they are shocks.
There is a new hybrid race, flock or
| swarm of them that has come to light
in a tiny little box of a shop on Fifth
avenue 1t offers hats TOO, but the
smocks are the real curios.
They are not any of them what you
would expect a well regulated smock
to be. Each one is rather the en-
bodiment of a wild flight of fancy, to
put it mildly.
They start out all right and proper
in linen, pongee, crepe or cretonne,
but then comes the funny business
Some of them are appliqued in mad
hit or miss riot of gay colored linen
disks outline-stitched in black yarn.
Others are patched in crazy quilt fash
ion and feather stitched with yarn
Always there is yarn, yarn, yarn in
some of every color, stitch or fashion.
Some of the more decorous smocks
have cut out patterns of the cretonne,
baskets of flowers, birds or beasts APP
pliqued at intervals around the skirt or
on the pockets and yet others have
yarn crocheted scallOps around the
collar, cuffs and pockets. One of
black Saline is broken out so rashly in
varisiZed and varicolored appliqued
disks that it looks like futurist COM
panion piece to "A Nude Descending
the Stairs"
There are also some new sweaters
| blazers
but not quite so weird. Howe yer, they
put to shame for very stripedness both
the zebra and the Sing Sing habitant
| These striped sweater coats worn
with one-toned corduroy or linen
skirts are a sort of vice versa flipflop
of fashion from the one-toned sweat
ers worn with awning striped skirts
| that were so omnipresent at the begin
ming of the season.
Although the stripes are riotous in
| their color effects, they are not so
without rhyme or reason by any
means. They are striped in regi-
mental colors and each daughter of
the regiment may express by her coat
of many colors her regimental prefer
ence.
For the patriotic preparedness per-
! son there are the stripes of red, white
and blue and her sentiments as well
as her figure may thus be embodied
| in her garment. Regimental colors are
a deal more exclusive, however, and
express a preference not quite so
/ broad and promiscuous. Worn with
white these gay striped sweater Goa is
are particularly stunning and there
also are accompanying accoutrements
of hats and parasols striped to match.
! The expression: "Oh, she is that
/ stripe" hereby gathers new meaning
and the regimental sweater offers, as
we'll as warmth and adornment, a de-
| lightful modern method of wearing
your heart on your sleeve by wearing
instead his stripes.
Verify, no regiment would fail to
/ present arms to such color bearers