The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
SLEEVES PASSE
Couple of Beaded Straps Sub
stitute on Evening Gowns.
Even the Jackets Are Being
ssDisarmedo This Season.
BY MARGARET MASON.

written for The Topeka State
JournaL)
Annette's for preparedness
So keeps on the fight
OF hosting up dumb bells
Both morning and night.
That gowns would be sleeveless
This season she visit
So seeks to be well armed
From shoulder to wrist.
New York, May 12.-Sleeves are in
deed becoming a minus quantity. Soon
they will be as extinct as the ichthyor-
mis- In seasons past we have bravely
and unflinchingly presented arms to
leg-o mutton, bishop, puff, bacon.
bell, tight, flowing, mousquetaire,
wing and angel sleeves but this year
IA sleeve by any other name would
still be next to nothing.
At least this sleeveless fashion will
free us from the shadow of arrest for
carrying concealed weapons since We
no longer carry our arms up our
sleeves but go around brandishing
them quite open and above board.
Positively anyone appearing in any
thing as obsolete and outrageous as a
sleeve in an evening gown would be
taken out and shot at sunrise. Even
the ordinary quota of two jeweled
straps or two bead strands, one over
each shoulder, has become a bit too
thusiasts and so they are left with
but single strap to cling to.
Those Left Abbreviated.
In their struggle for existence the
sleeves in the afternoon and daytime
frocks and gowns are worn to mere
shadows of their former substantial
selves. They are thin and fragile and
net or shadow laces- Most of them
have dwindle6 or shrunk to half of
their former great lengths and as ell
bow sleeves are content at most to
reach to the funny bone.
Just a few regulation sleeves there
are left in daytime frocks that will
pass muster. These are for wear with
the new sleeveless jackets and short
coats. For yes, even the coats are
being born and worn unsleeved this
season. Saucy little straight-cut hip
length. affairs they are of serge, CAB
arbine, velvet or satin, usually elab-
| orately embroidered in gayly colored
threads. They are perfect in every
sense except sleeve sense and when
it comes to the places where these
ought to be there is absolutely moth
ing. You must bear with these little
coats however. Tho they have their
shortcomings they are not really
meant for wear with bare arms.
For every little sleeveless coat
; there is a fetching frock with sleeves
to bear it company and thus supply
all deficiencies. If alack, a lack of
| sleeves must be dubbed deficiency.
Racey Little Monkey Jackets.
Zouave, bolero and monkey jackets
are numbered among these smart
new sleeveless coats and pony jack
cts, too, are very racey. Those that
aren't embroidered are stitched and
almost all and every one boasts a
! tassel or two somewhere on it. The
/ sleeves on the gowns that go with
! these sleeveless coats invariably bob
with a tassel at their cuff. Sort of
survival of the fittest these sleeves are,
! too, since they are all close fitting and
arm fitted.
Apropos of the finish of the fast
disappearing sleeve species. whether
it is a quick finish or not, at least ii
| is a novel one in almost every in
stance.
| One is tied around the wrist with
| little tassel-ended ribbon and then
| flares out again in a fitted frill be-
/ low the tie. Another Georgette sleeve
| in a taffeta frock has snug little
cuff of the folded taffeta finished with
fiat pump bow with one loop longer
than the other that juts out to the
! side in a most perky fashion.
Cuffs to the Elbow on This One.
Another sleeve to a crepe dress
with a beaded bodice has a beaded
cuff that fits tight up to the elbow and
| then flares out into fullness of I'M
| beaded crepe.
Another of garbardine has a tight
cuff with three rows of stitching fas-
| tened with a fiat bone button, the
| stitching and the buttons repeated
three times up to the elbow where
the sleeve juts out at a tangent. A
! white finish on a Chinese blue char
meuse sleeve is a cuff that turns down
| with two points over the hand that
are adangle each with a white tassel
| just waiting to drop into ones soup.
So you see you may scrap up a
sleeve or two to laugh in>this season
but the laugh is bound to be an empty
| or hollow one and nine times out of
1 ten it is apt to be on you.