The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-07

EyeIet embroidery makes its appear
ance on shirtwaiStS as well as on
muslin and linen frockS-It also
appears on hats.
New York, Aug. "a woman who
has vision in fashions bought for an
absurdly small sum of money. white
linen gown covered with an elaborate
design in eyelet embroidery. 1t was
thrust at the dawn of spring into a
mass of bargain garments on a large
counter.
Her friends, who were shopping
with her, were amused at such a pur-
chase. Today they go about envying
the woman who had vision and who
bought the gown for something like
SIS, for they would be compelled to paw
ten times that much for the same
kind of frock made to fit them.
There are actually people who see
ahead in fashions, seemingly without
any secret and powerful connection
with the sources of style. 1t is not
anything more or less than an extra
ordinary sense of what is coming.
which is gained by reading intelligent
1y and watching the straws Of rumor
as they rise from the ground, to see
what direction they take
Spirit of Reckless Buying.
Hundreds of women have this So
called gift 1t has it's great :.dvan-
| tages and equal disa dvantages. 1t is all
very we'll to buy a few excellent gar
ments with an eye to their immediate
use, and to buy them with the vision
that says they will be successful and
fashionable. but the average woman
who possesses this instinct for what is
coming is apt to take advantage of 700
| many bargains. She cannot resist the
temptation to gamble; she is like a
speculator who has had a run of luck.
/ She heaps up unavailable clothes in
her closet. She piles her shelves with
a vast variety of things that she has
not the opportunity to use.
| When the woman who has no vision
| but buys Sanely and consistently along
| the lines of immediate fashion, con-
J siders the woman with the vision plus
the recklessness of purchasing .avish-
! ly, she thinks that possibly, after all,
she is to be congratulated.
Those who read intell;gentIy and
search thru the byways of fashion
| for the new note to be heard in the
near future, knew in March that eye
| let embroidery was the thing to take
up. Even now, it is not used in a
popular manner, which is so much rhe
/ better for those who wish to dress out
4 of uniformity with their neigh5ors.
The stiletto and the buttonhoIe
] stitch are being INCREASINGLY combined
4 by those who go in for new kinds of
needIework, and the shops offer agree
| able designs in shirtwaists, separate
! skirts and hats.
Blouses of shiffon as well as linen
have a bit of colored eyelet embroid-
| cry to enliven the surface Informal
dinner gowns of soft taffeta and satin
have lowered designs of eyeIet en-
! broidery in gold and silver, which re-
veal a colored underslip in an agree
able contrast TO the outer skirt
Sturdy shirtwaists for young girls
/ have eyelet embroidered collars and
| cuffs. So far, one does not find many
! of the separate accessories witt the
needlework embroidery but if the
] fashion lasts, the shops will probab ly
| put out goodly number of such
| things.
The milliners have found that flori
ated designs in eyelet embroidery turn
plain hat into something rather re-
! markable. Widebrimmed hats which
are longer at the sides than at front
| and back-the newly accepted shape
have no trimming whatever but
delicately conceived designs in eve
let embroidery worked over the high.
stiff crown and the brirn The edges
are overcast with colored thread.
and the lining beneath is in direct
color contrast to the material above
! White Flannel skirts.
| The sketch shows a handkerchief
/ collar. rolling high at the back and
/ spreading to sharp points above the
/ waist. This is trimmed with en-
breidered eyelets worked in geranilm
/ pink There is also row of the eve
| lets down the front of the blouse, and
| in bias line across the cuffs
/ BY the way the skirt which is worn
with this blouse is worth emphatic
attention 1t is of white French flan-