The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-17
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS ANNE p.lFa,nor.u FOR WOMEN
By ANNE RITTENHoUsE
The kind of striped ticking used for mattresses and pillows, is taken up
 by fashionable women for sport skirts, in order to obtain good color

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 by fashionable women for sport
 skirts, in order to obtain good color
 schemes.
 New York, July 16.-There is talk float
 ing here and there concerning the sup precision of colors by women during the war.
 It is an absurd proposition, if it is to
 be taken seriously. It is all very well to reflect in ones clothes the dignity
 of great situation and American women, aided by their dressmakers, in- tend to do that. But We are not a na- ton in mourning as yet, and if that
 terrible thing could come to pass on
 this continent, then women will volun- tarlly seek the sombre shades of cos tumery instead of it's blazing Byzantine hues.
 DIGNIFIED CLOTHES Women should not go about during the first year of the war in clothes that suggest a frivolous mind. They should not wear the trappings of Asl- atic conquerors bringing home their captlves through the streets of exotic cltles as they have been doing. They should not attempt to rival the Dunbar | in the draperies and jewels which they string about themselves But the cry for black and navy blue, with all other l colors suppressed except gray, is as foolish as that cry of false economy that went up in the spring. 1 The absolute way in which hysteria | and emotionalism can be checked, is for women to go into the statistics of a
 business which they expect to ruin by their behavior.
 | One shouldn't say women only, for | men, even those in the highest positions | in civic life, are attacked for their one eyed view concerning certain reforms l that it is said this nation needs
 The prohibitionists, for instance, sing | a song of glee concerning national pro- l hibition through the conserving of all | grain in this country, in order that France and England may have it. But | their nonbelligerent opponents points out | that, in addition to the overwh elmine
 number of people who would lose their jobs under such a sweeping restriction | Is the fact that this country will send | it's allies the grain from which they | will make alcohol for their army as well as their civilians.
 l It is when things are presented or I both sides that the onlooker becomes | bewildered and feels, as Kant once said | that there is no proposition in all the world that cannot be argued on two
 sides to a victorious conclusion. MATERIALS IN GAY COLORS 1 But what have Kant and nationa prohibition to do with pillow ticking anc /! Colored blouses on a tennis field 1T | America? The answer to that Is that everything in the world is inter-relatec and it is an amazing bit of fun to bring extremes together and find that some
 how all the pieces fit together like 2 1 puzzle.
 1 TTpIa cty nil he. l yond the price in our purse, 1t will have quite a mad career on the field of sport l this summer.
 | It comes in bright colors, 1t is as dura
 ble as steel and it washes exceedingly well. Women have found that linen ant cotton duck skirts should have been dis carded decades ago, because their fresh
 ness does not last long enough to war
 rant the laundry bills.
 l The sketch shows a skirt of thi striped pillow ticking, in bright blu and white. The peplum blouse, whicl | has succeeded all others for tennis, i navy blue jersey with white collar ant
 suffs. It is laced with blue ribbon ant there is white jersey sash.
 The hat is of white satin, with folded scarf of white taffeta.
 Sport hats have been introduced int the most fashionable indoor life. Thos l extraordinarily smart affairs of satil and velvet that the New York womel wore in town in the summer, have givel way to immense garden hats of straw ] The reason for this is that after tn ] lapse of several decades, muslin ant cotton gowns have returned to fashiol for formal wear.
 | The presence of all the fashionable women in town this summer, on wa relief work of one kind or another gives the reporter of clothes an excel
 lent chance to see the very best fash ions worn daily.