The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS ANN. ..!asa.u.v.s FOR WOMEN
Curious short sleeves that are taken from the early centuries, have sud denly appeared in evening gowns and are sure of acceptance.

ueIiy appeared III eVeHlIS SoWho
 and are sure of acceptance.
 New York, October 31.--It is very in-
 teresting to hear the important dress
 makers of the hour discuss the proba- bilities of full evening dress for this winter. At one house which dresses number of the fashionable
 women who give dances, have boxes at the Metropolitan and therefore or
 der a dozen low frocks for each season,
 if not more, so few evening gowns are
 made that the trade is not looked upon as remunerative.
 In New York all the set dances have
 been cancelled. Clubs that have met for decades are dissolved. There is not
 single private ball rising up from the horizon of society.
 This does not mean that America will do like France and taboo dancing. There will be no government edict against private or public gayety. We are too Anglo Saxon for such an edict, to begin with, and we are too far away from the enemy, to end with. We are not invaded like France; we are not poverty stricken; we are not in seri- ous need of necessities; we still have some money left to spend after the tremendous taxes are taken out, and being Anglo-Saxons, we insist upon being amused.
 THE NEW EVENING GOWN However, it is quite probable that there will be no more big entertain ments of 3 certain type while the war I lasts. Informal gayety will abound. l Private entertainment will not cease. 1 The opera will be filled to the roof as usual. The theatres are doing record l business. None of this will be changed, 1 but the gowns of women for such af- l fairs are perceptibly changed, so the l designers tell us. Society in New York, as in other great cities, has not started 1 yet but iii going about among the | dressmakers to find out what the de- mand is for the brilliant evening ] gowns of other days, the impression is 1 agined that few will be bought and l few will be worn.
 The evening gown Of the hour IS l what France has decreed as the din- ner gown for Paris. It is almost prim- 1 tive in its simplicity. although it IS 1 made of expensive materials and is 1 quite costly. This frock is made of vel vet, satin and sometimes chiffon France has put her entire faith in fvelvet and crepe satin. The frocil 3
 nothing to fasten t @lttl, and tAs s'eawas ea unite short aud c1tf osae with sne shcusaer,
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 ODD LITTLE BRACELETS
 There Is no end to the queer li.tiAs bracelets that are used on ankles anfs arms these days, and nearly evcrE sleeve is caught to the arm by one sf3 them. Several of the new evening skirts are also caught to the ankle with these bracelets of crystals or metallic ribbons It is an odd and artistic oriental trick and when first intro duced it had few followers, but now one Is beginning to accept the fashion as sufficiently commonplace to be taken up without comment.
 A vast number of flowing sleeves made these bracelets imperative. We wear yards of tulle swung from the shoulders, and they must be caught near the hand in some fashion, so we attach a bracelet of tulle, velvet rib- bon or colored crystals.
 The gown sketched today is by
 Doeuillet and is one of the highest ex- pressions of the French evening gown
 as the smart Parisienne adopts it. It
 is made of flesh colored crepe satin, and the overdress is faced with black
 velvet. The underskirt is quite narrow and loosely confined at the waistline under slight girdle of the material. The short sleeves. which are cut in one with the bodice, having no arm hole or shoulder seam, would slip up on the arm if it were not for the bracelet of the material which is made of double thickness and caught to the sleeve at its point in the back.