Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-11

edges or another kind made of Jet
beads or silken floss.
Wide girdles have deep, metallic
fringe for eight inches across the
front and back, or they concentrate
the fringe over each hip and let it
fall TO the knees in irregular strands.
A wooden frock or cloth coat suit
will have a girdle of velvet or Indian
beads that drops slightly in front and
embroidery from which long, silken
is finished with a flat pouch of gay
tassels and fringes drop.
On the hats that the milliners turn
out the crown band is finished with
fringe at its lower edge, or, reserving
its simplicity until It gets to the side
Of the hat. II breaks out into a water
fall of fringes that reach to the outer
edge of the brim.
Feathers are arranged to look like
frjnges. Monkey fur and skunk are
slashed and combed and brushed until
they form fringes, and the peltry Is
applied to evening or afternoon gowns
of chiffon and georget crepe. The
furriers take rows of tiny tails and
make fringe of them for the edges OF
the great Victorian shoulder scarfs
which retain their place in fashion.
Street suits made Of khaki-colored
NtlouIS udNc liilluClISc SOlidiS Va
the days of the Revolution, and these
are slashed at the edges with a pair of
sharp scissors, to fall into deep fringe
over the shoulders. The girdle Is sub
jected to the same treatment, and the
sleeves hang in fringes about the hand
below tight band that holds them
In at the wrist.
If you are an economical woman and
want to provide the trimming for your
clothes in your own sewing-room, Just
get q pair Of sharp scissors and amuse
yourself as children do on wet days In
the nursery, by clipping pieces of fab
ric into fringe. The children may do
II for you In a spirit of sport, and the
task will keep them quiet for the
afternoon while you prepare the rest
of the gown as a setting for these yards
of fringe.
Frocks Slip Over the Head.
Everything that was invented in
clothes this year had a reason. Skirts
were narrow because the French gov
ernment limited the use OF cloth to
five meters. They were minus fas-
teners because these accessories were
difficult to get, and wartime activi-
ties demanded a speedy method Of
dressing-so frocks were made to go
over the head and tie around the body
In primitive fashion.
Certain dyes were exploited because
there were no others to be had. The
fringed fabrics were introduced be-
cause applied ornamentation was SO
costly and the supply was vastly de-
creased from than Of former years.
Immense topcoats with interlinlngs
we're made by the dozens because the
French women were compelled to
walk thru lack Of taxlcabs and the
American women were supposed to
have started on a system Of economy
which would compel them to walk in
stead Of paying money for taxis.
Voluminous peltry was applied to all
costumes because of the intense cold
on both continents last winter and be-
cause Of tho scarcity Of GOAL In Paris
last January and the promise Of II in
this country for this winter.
The Paris designers have given all
kinds Of anecdotal reasons for their
gowns, and some Of tho American
dressmakers who are not given to
either narrative or reasons for their
clothes are repeating the French talk
in an interesting way.
Tho most dominant fashion pro-
duced this winter IL the garment that
slips on over the head and has pieces
OF the material 90 tie II into place.
This In quite as primitive as In days
when Melisande lived. loved and died.