Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-08

New York. the current of clothes
goes rushing by. one has strong
temptation to reach out and grasp at
the straws that are swirlins along on
the top eddies.
Standing on the bank and watching
the brilliant things borne down the
stream, one is strongly reminded OF an
alluring article by Mr.. Beebe, the ex-
plorer, who has brought back so much
that was worth while to the geological
knowledge in America.
Mr.. Beebe rests quietly on bank
as he tells it, by which passes great,
swiftly flowing stream which comes
from the heart of the jungle ana
which is full Of mystery and color and
splendid exotic life. The stream has
caught on it's top current parts of this
life, and as he studies it, keenly and
with knowledge, as it swiftly goes by
him, he Is able to form in his mind
lust what the life Of that special
Jungle is. Fauna and fora 60 by. an
Opossum with its young, peculiar
kind Of snake on log, bits OF wood
that explain the tree growth, birds
that have been caught in branches and
cannot extricate themselves. On, on
goes the cOlorful stream, rushing past
the flat mud bank and explaining to
the zoologist and ornithologist the en-
tire life and personality Of the source
from which all these things come.
It is thus in fashions. All the tu-
multi, the revolt, the color, the per-
conality and the life of a country flow
by in this semi-annual stream OF
1 clothes that are symbols of their
sources. And the one who stands on
the bank wants to reach out hand
or throw out graphing pole, as Mr.
Beebe did, and bring in for closer oh.
servation the peculiar and particular
things that can be developed into a
whole chapter of interest.
Sleeves From Every Epoch.
Sleeves, for instance. There is de
tail that one wants to catch at with a
graphing pole, pull into the bank and
study for a week. They are represent
ative of the history of the world
Each epoch seems to have offered 9
peculiar phase of arm covering for the
designers to incorporate into modern
costumes.
We have the medieval sleeve which
opens after it leaves the elbow an(
drops in point to the knee; we have
the Chinese sleeve which is room!
enough for all the juggling we care
to do; there is the tight sleeve of thu
DirectOire that fits into an oversnu:
armhole and stretches to the knuckle
Of the hand; there is the Italian
sleeve that begins in an armhole tina
+ Is nearly at the elbow and widen
itself out in order that it may drop il
cloaklike folds to the wrist, where
Is caught into band OF white velve
or CLOTH, 49,
There is the sleeve that is slashe,
from larmhole to wrist, as Marguerit
and Faust wore it, and there is tn
Oriental sleeve that is formed fror
the front edge Of cape and confine
10 the arm with bracelet Of tulle o
jewels.
Another sleeve Is merely brassar
and, of course, it is on an evenin
gown. There are sleeves taken fror
the church, from comic opera, fror
the Round Table, from Wagnerian lef
ends, from the days Of Dante and, on
might almost add, from the Sultan 9
Sulu. There are sleeves that are notf
ing but arm bands above and belo'
the elbow, to which are caught swint
Ing folds Of colored tulle.
Possibly the one garment which tn
sleeve-mad designers have left vi
touched in their wild orgy Of desigl
ing is the street coat which is r1rt {
conventional tailored suit. All sor'
Of liberties are taken with sleeves
top coats, because this garment hi
reached so high on the ladder OF fasl
J ion that it gets a whack of original,