Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-15
'NOAH'SARK RAIDED
FOR FASHION SHOW
Walnut Business Associa-
tion Reveals Marked Zoo
logical Tendencies
GREEN DOMINANT COLOR
BY M'LISS

BY MLISS
The fashionable spring maid will visit
the bird and animal store before journeyInV
10 the style salons to select her vernal
wardrobe
What have you" she will ask. turning
an lnquisitve glance through her lorgnette
upon the live stock man lin the way of
marmosets or guinea pigs. parrots or para
keets, monkeys or pugs?"
III she is wise maid who has learned
her sartortal lesson well. she will know
that monkey, tiny. pink ugly one
goes pest with loud sports coat in the
black yellow and burnt umber tones
brilliant parrot is to be chosen to give the
correct note of color to n dashng green
costume; pug, bulldog or Airedale with
Iramping costume, an Angora with n
uuffy white peignoir.
All these things and more were impressed
upon an enthusiastic audience which
watched the opening performance of the
three-day Fashion Show under the auspices
OF the Walnut Street Business Association
at the Bellevue-Strat tford
beiectapIe models cavorted entrancngly
up ana down the runway in the ballroom
"sI hlght Tor two hours and a half
They demonstrated the most luscious
tne most enNy-generating costumes with
the requisite animal accompa niments eyer
conceived in the salon of a modiste
POOR OLD PARIS!
Paris became forgotten citv pbila-
delphia was triumphant
One learned among other things that.
skirts. like everything else. are up
up all around, but up four or five inches
upper in the front
Petticoats, except for 1appers, are no
more. NO. this wasn't announced The
lighting arrangements and the trans
parency of the skirts themselves gave
that away.
Perfect thirty-sxes" have given
away to more perfect thirty-eights IT
is no longer considered desirable to
have collar bone, and an arm like the
crank of an ice cream freezer is a thing
to be cached away under an igloo of
chiffon and crepe
The debutante slouch has not been
entirely discarded, The fashionable
one still Stimulates a slight curvature
of the spine. and a swagger motion of
the hips is used in walking. Para
doxically, this looks vulgar and smart
GREEN DOMINATES
Green Is the dominant spring shade. The
fashion show was greener than a family
of idiots. Greens In the rough and greens
in the smooth: ouean green, turf green
olive green apple-blossom green-whether
you have the complexion for it or not you
must have green.
Gray. soft cloudy creepy gobs OF it, was a
close second and blue serge battled gamely
Tor third.
The complicated simplicity of the. even
ing gowns made the home dressmaker gasp
with dismay. The dress that looks easy
to make but battles even the expert with
the purity of its lines is the apotheosis
OF the sartorial art. There are many eX-
amples at the fashion show
skirts ran the gamut of all that skirts
have ever been. There were full ones and
gored. narrow ones, peg-tops and panniers,
skirts with drapery-like ngs and skirts
with pockets for cartridges and other
things.
corselet effect predominant. This requires
the svelte but not bony figure.
Large picture hats were the favorites.
with backs in the lead.
charming afternoon costume that
evoked much hand-clapping was combina-
ton of black satin and georgette in the
Paisley shawl pattern 1t was made on
the long -waisted Russian lines and the
model wore Russian boots and an upstand-
ing Czarina sort of stiff black hat.
An evening gown In black satin and rose
brocaded satin with metallic lace was
ecstatically sighed over.
sports girl in a lettuce-green wool
sweater, with a white and vari-colored
striped skirt, with a green Tam o'Shanter
looked like the kind of magazine cover
everybody wants to be. She obviously would
a-rowing go, and carried an oar to dem.
onStrate r.
Every model carried something. When
the live stock gave out the fur shops were
invaded and wolves, foxes. ermines and
seals were introduced.
Other maidens carried swagger ticks,
canes. tennis racksts golf sticks, parasols,
ukule'es and candles to light them to bed.
Youngsters in adorably simple little
shocked and handmade frocks initiated
the older models and stepped upon the run
way with that assurance which the fashion
artists tell us good clothes always engen-
der.