Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-06-08

new hats. 1t is built of white straw
with an immense silk bow in front and
a band of small pink roses.
by the merest fraction of a supple
curve, that the dressmakers are pleas
ing them by introducing drapery I'M
der the arms which hangs below the
knees. 1t is transparent, this drapery,
and floats about in the air as the wear
er uses her arms, but it fultills its mis-
sion of Strengthening out the figure in
an admirable manner. 1t cannot be en-
plOyed on an informal frock, the kind
that one would wear between the hours
of eight in the morning and seven in
the evening, but on any type of eve
ming frock, it is well placed.
Another method that the dressmak-
ers have of catering to the concealment
of the waistline is the use of the elab-
crate cape of tulle or lace that goes
over the shoulders and extends to the
tips of the fingers. The fashion for
lace of any kind gives one a variety Of
methods of draping the body line in a
lisSOme manner. In daytime frocks
the long line is given by the use of
braid, of ribbon, of plating and en-
broidery. There are also giOritied sus-
penders of ornamentation that are at
tached to skirts with chiffon blouses
that give the correct and desired sill
hOuette. They do not extend over the
front and back of the frock, but pass
over the shoulders, reach to the hips,
widening as they go under the arms,
and are often loosely belted in at the
waist by one or more of the draped
girdles that attach themselves to every
kind of gown this season.
These suspenders, by the way, should
prove an inspiration to the woman
who wants to bring the gowns she
possesses into the present picture. If
she has dark silk or cloth skirt, for
example, with q thin blouse to match
in color, she can easily bring the two
into composite whole by the addition
of this skeletonized jacket of en-
broidery, or soutaching on net.
Lace Is Rioting Over Clothes.
The experts prophesied a revival
of lace in the immediate future and
the knowledge they possessed, proved
exact. Lace positively riots over the
new clothes. 1t is used for entire
frocks, for long wraps, for parasols,
negligees, petticoats, coats and eve
ming frock drapery.
There is surely some economical rea-
son behind this furore for valuable
and not easily procured article Of
dress. 1t is quite evident that the
French wish to make lace the high
fashion in order to give employment
to the thousands of needleworkers of
its own country and those who have
come from Belgium and who have to
be supported by the French govern
ment. This strain of caring for the
homeless of the neighboring country is
telling on France, for, in addition to
the prisoners she has taken, the num-
Der of alien mouths in which she has
to put food, constitute q small nation.
therefore, to give the Belgians and the
French widows work, all sorts of in
dustries have been revived and encour-
aged, especially those that will have q
good chance Of bringing in American
dollars converted into francs. In Amer
lea, we are minus needlewOrkers of
Importance, so the major portion of
! what we must use, comes from the
lacemaking centers of Europe. The
fashion for it may lead to foolish and
inartistic application Of cheap and taw-
dry laces to frocks, and q mass Of II
where 1t should be avoided, but, so far,
there is no diminution of the fashion
which came into it's first bloom as the
spring openings were held.
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Net and Silk Nightgowns.