Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-12-05

1t has sturdy, s!ouchy, artistic air
1t is quite adorable on the youngstei
who pitches on a cowboy hat of black
panne velvet as an adjunct to its khaki
| tones.
Then there is another gown by
Bulloz which is well known and which
carries out his idea of using the Per.
sian tree of life as means of or.
namenting the skirt. You may re-
member that the sensational gown
called "Griselidis" which was worn
last season by Mary Garden when she
sang the opera by that name, also had
this symbolic Persian embroidery as
Its claim to fame.
Blazing Embroidery on Skirt.
This new gown is of black tulle and
satin, with slight cascades formed by
ruffies that go across the front of the
ngure and ripple down the sides; these
ruffles are edged with silver ribbon,
and they display, as though they were
lifted curtain, the audacious and
blazing embroidery ON the front of the
skirt. In the center, just where these
curtain ruffies are lifted, there is a
huge Persian ornament that might
have been worn by Haroun-al- Raschid.
This gown is for the few, not the
many.
1t Is we'll that woman should know
most of the Over-popular French mod
els before she spends money on clothes,
because If she is ignorant of these par
ticular expressions of the fashion by
certain designers, she is apt to buy a
gown Of which she will become ex-
ceedinSly weary before Christmas.
However, she is the only one who
can judge whether or not she wants
to wear what everyone else has, or
something different.
The shops have copied most of the
French models, and will sell the origi-
nails at any price they can demand.
Inc American copies are not exact and
are often more adaptable to our So
cial life and activities than the Origi-
nails. We have progressed so far in
fashions that we take the French sill
houette, peculiar kind of material or
trimming, a high neck or a long
sleeve, and we make salad Of our
own of these ingredients. This is as
it should be.
The originality and inventiveness of
our apparel people have been expended
on the one-piece frock and topcoat.
This is the fundamental fact that one
gathers from reviewing all the clothes
by all the people.
There are frOcks that are warm
enough for the street with bit of fur
or one of the swinging, army capes
which have not been ousted from fash
on by popularity.
There are thin One-piece frocks that
need sturdy coat over them to give
protection. There are afternoon
rocks that may serve, as far as color
md fabric go, for restaurant and the,
ater frocls, with the addition of fuI
.oat.
The tailored suit is not offered for
my kind of ceremonial occasion. 1t Is
worn by the individualists and by
hose who feel that they are not COM
ortably dressed unless they are in
his tind of conventional harness.
One-Piece Frocks Popular.
The girl who works, the woman who
lays and the millionaire in Red Cross
ctivities are different types of women
Who go in for the one-piece frock and
et the variety which they insist they
iced in life by adopting this kind of
ostumery.
Never before has there been such a
objection here Of one-piece black vel
ct gowns. They greet one at every
lance Of the eye. No one has tried
0 make them portentious or unduly
rnamental. The severe ones, which
re the best ones, have the now IA
1Ous surplice bodice which is drawn
cross the bust and passed around the
vaist to tie in the back or brought for
yard to tie in the front. The skirt
as bias tunic to give slimness, or
is very slightly gathered and has
n almost imperceptible inward curve
the hem.
Velveteen Is offered for serviceable
'ocks and chiffon velvet for indoor
owns.
Beige colored frocks trimmed with
putois and Hudson seal are
and yet altogether satisfying.
hen these thin frocks have fur hens,
lere is,a velvet and fur coat that goes ,,
yer them. O.,
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