Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-08-15

been a constant fashion seen at all the resorts since June. It is quite natural that these two colors should hold their own despite the introduction of anything else, and the woman who be- lfeves in them and considers them trump cards to play at all seasons of the year whenever she is in doubt about the rest of the fashion game, is secure in her belief If she accepts the new innovations.
 There are, unfortunately, battalions of women who believe in black be- cause they have not the energy. inspi- ration or courage to seek farther afield in the color scheme of fashion. They buy black suit because such a pur- chase is along the line of least resist ance. They have an erroneous and fu- tile idea that black is always elegant and becoming. Extraordinary judg- ment, this It should be sponged out of the minds of women.
 Black is difficult color to wear. It can be dowdy, unattraetive, inelegant and commonplace in more ways than any other color we have. In combina- tion with white, it can break all laws of line, shadow and perspective. Wom- en should be trained to handle it with care, as they would an explosive.
 Dark blue has many of the possibil- ities which the majority claim for black, and it may be said, in a sweep ing manner, that in it's deeper tones, known as crow and midnight, the choice of it is playing for safety.
 The Sleeveless Bodices.
 It may have been known by the de- signers of this country that the Ameri- can army in France would be supplied with medieval, sleeveless jerkins, lined with wool, for the trench fighting.
 Whether or not the designers were aware of this fact, it is curiously in- teresting that they have introduced that garment in women's costumery. It is minus the wool, but 1t is cut in the same manner and worn outside of the hours devoted to sport.
 It began its career in leather and it blended in Lyons velvet and Russian kolinsky. It has made wide appeal to women and designers, because it was introduced at the right moment. It is what our Sammies will wear in France.
 It is in keeping with the emphatic trend to hide the waistline when 1t is sharply marked by the joining of the shirtwaist and the separate skirt. It caters to womens delight in the juxta- position of bright colors during the summer season. In the autumn, when built of fine fabrics and trimmed with silky peltry, it will add bit to the military swagger which we are already beginning to get and it provides way out of wearing the universal coat.
 The New Plaid Fabrics.
 The person who does not like plaid need not feel that the autumn will bring release from it. Just the op- posite is likely to occur. There is no law that will make one wear plaids and checks, if the taste is opposed to this design, but the designers are going to see to it that the world that does like plaid has plenty of choice to make among the costumes that embody it.
 There will be a continuance of sep arate skirts iA plaid. The accepted fashion of knife-plaited plaid skirt below a black cloth coat which has col lar and cuffs of the plaid, has settled this kind of costume on the fashion able highways.
 New suits and frocks which will soon be shown in Paris have un- usual cravats, gauntlet collars and gir- dies of plaid, silk and cloth. There are patriotic plaids, so called, in chif- ion and gauge, which show a faint out line of national colors running across q blue background.
 The marine cravat, in Scotch plaids, will be widely offered as an enlivening note on frocks of somber colors, such as blue, beige and sand colors, jersey and serge.
 In chiffon and other fragile fabrics, the plain design is not as alluring to the woman with artistic tastes as the sumptuous bouquets of half-faded flow CTS known as Pompadour and Dresden designs, but it will be offered as a variation from the commonplace Here tofore we have not seen the Scotch plaids in afternoon and evening gowns, for their imprint has been made on sturdy cloth suitable for street use, but 1t is prophesied from high quarters that this state of affairs will change | Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure Newspa- per Syndicate.)
 Tucked Fronts on New BIouses.
 One noticeable feature of many of