The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-08

Like pencils they must be by Fall
Or they'll no. make their mark Mt all.
New ork, Sept. Shave you
little bulge in your bodice? Are you
just a bit lumpy as to lines? If so
you'd better bant busily or you can
not hope to cut a fashionable figure
this autumn and winter time It's the
straight and narrow for yours and a
curve is crime
If you want to be sure of a perfect
ly correct model just take a lead pen
ell and copy its fine points. Skirts
are to be narrower and shorter, too, in
spite of the mad effort to pull them
down a bit. Even the pockets that
have Haunted their destinations and
had US on the hip for SO long a time
are to be sacrificed on the altar of
straight lines and incide utaliy the
scarcity of material
Shorn of our pockets we will no
doubt have to go back to the ancient
custom of carrying our bank rolls,
family jewels and powder puffs in
our hosiery. Alas! 1 fear me some
such cached treasures will break the
symmetry of the outline. There are
few of US, however, who need have
no worry over the spelling of our con-
tour by such a means.
Wear High Collars.
buttoned up around our chin or chins.
Sleeves will be tight and long even to
the knuckle line. 1t is quite time
fashion was knuckling to something
and it might as well be sleeves. One
| comfort about these long arm cover
| ings is that If we have anything up
| our sleeves it will be So much easier
| to get at practically at our finger tips
| as 'twere.
The new black charmeuse one piece
/ l. -
gown of the moment and the mode
shows all the new pencil points of
short narrow skirt, long tight sleeve,
| high close collar and straight lined
bodice. You can't help taking a shine
to its shiny lengths and If you top it
| with one of the little close fitting hats
of taupe felt or velvet your resem-
blance to nice new lead pencil with
an eraser on the end will make every
| body rubber.
We will have to be furbeartng again
as well as forbearing this year. Just
| to prove that little squirrels had much
! better stick to their pedal extremi-
| ties when 1t comes to a means of To-
| comotion instead of trying to fly is
evidenced by the lavish use of flying
squirrels fur on many of the smartest
fur coats. winter suits and cloth
coats.
/ Leaning to Oriental
Quantities of gray squirrel as band
ings and collars and cuffs, however,
show that he who runs doesn't always
get away with it either. Since. mex;
to black, grey is to be the favorite
color scheme for the sombre grey
days of a wartime fall and winter it.
is plausible that the grey furs should
be to the fore and the rear and all
| around for that matter. Chinchllla is
of course rare and very expensive and
| therefore much to be desired but for
an understudy the Australian oppos-
sum or nutria does bea atifully and
will be much in evidence either in all
try wear, or in combination with other
| furs. Hudson seal and the nutria
makes a new and decidedly smart
combination while the Hudson seal
coats collared and cuffed in flying
squirrel are very ricn.
The use of two furs together as
| also the use of two materials or a fur
and a material will be one of the
features of the Autumn modes.
There is striking Chinese tendency
again and the exquisite and gorgeous
! Chinese embroideries will .mbellish
and enliven many an otherwise neu-
trail tinted frock of drab, black or
platinum grey. Chinese skirts with
the panels front and back will be cop
| led for their straight line tendencies
The round Chinese neck line will be
seen on many of the Cooli blouse eff
fects and the hoof cuff that is a feat
ure of the Mandarin robes will now
fall over our fair hands. When you
| sift the origin of this hoof shaped cuff
down to the tradition that every one
approaching the august presence OF
| the emperor had to do SO on the level
of beast and that the Mandarins
crawled in on all fours had the cuffs
of their ceremonial robes -haped like
| a hoof in order to maxi the beast
abasement more complete am in
ri - h.. h IL,
ing this Chinese cuff. When it comes
to hoofing it, let's kick