The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-26
FlOunced, Rucked and Muchly
Scalloped Creation.
SIMPLY RUN RIOT IN COLOR
DeIectable Clusters of Cherries
or Tiny SiIken 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 font.
But in a crowd such breadth to tote
Now seems to make her soar" you'll note.
New York, June 26.-Petticoats
are now making up with vengeance
for any past discrepancies 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 a barrel skirt.
Taffeta for its crispness makes most
acceptable pettis and when adequate
| ly corded and of sufficient fullness,
needs no wiring to give it that de-
sired hoopy effect.
Two lovely ones that seem just to
have been plucked blooming in the
garden are a pink one which IS a
tier, like inverted rose; and one in
yellow points like a daffodil. All
shades of lavender, 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 fam
/ 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 at
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 gorgeously
| embroidered ribbons
! Iii q
penchant for first fruits and boast a
| lavish display of tiny silken apples
tucked hither and yon in a smother
of frills. A bright purple petticoat is
particularly delectable with clusters
| of bobbing silken cherries growing in
a Burbankish manner near the limbs
of a peach.
Chaste white petticoats as frothy
with lace as a foa1ning stein CLEAN
with the sheen of wash satin between
their iaciness and blossom occasional
ly with tiny ribbon or beaded rose
| or French garland.
Frivolous truly are the petticoats
made of narrow ribbons Sewed togeth-
er lengthwiSe over the hips and then
allowed to fall in a loose fringe effect
over a wide flounce of chiffon and
| lace.
E,mbellished by Manipulating.
| Even the petticoat hasn't escaped
the mad passion for handpainted
adornment and many of the chiffon
and delicate tinted taffeta ones for
! evening wear bloom in water color
| flora All of the petticoats aren't as
black as they are painted but the real
| ly black ones are as ebonesQue as
black net, chiffon, lace and jet beads
can fashion them.
Some of the newest pettfcoats are
held in such suspense that they are
| perilOusly near to pants. For like
pants they are hung from fair Shout
ders by honest to goodness regular sus-
| penders. The suspenders, except that
they are made of the same silk as the
| petticoat proper, Cor improper it de-
| ponds how you look at it, are replicas
| of those worn by our petticoatless
| peers
| Truly with divers pettis clingine
pant like to suspenders, while others
| are puffy can be, it's no wonder
| the most of them take our breath
| away.