The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-07-26

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Of dahita rud autia, With undeshrhm OF
white &r0s and upoHted psuaaes Of
tan oeaor. The blazer 10 10 TN and
palA blue s&ripee. r. has Chinese
feminine costunery Is the b1nds of e-
cry fashion that comes and goes.
The world Of clothes has Just 9-
pertenced q mad revival In medieval
ism. Women Of every weight age and
curve have adopted the gowns Of
Queen Guinevere and .Melsond.
Such garments have been cut By
the hundred, in block. and they have
been worn in all the market places OF
the civilized world for two years. The
splendid, sweeping robes in which
Guinevere met Launcelot have served,
when modified. to carry Mary Jane
to the department store to buy bar
gain shirtwaists.
The swinging sleeves, the loose, ew>
eled rope girdle and the straight
widths If deeply culored velvet worn
by Juliet when she went to the aomher
tombs Of the dead have been worn by
blueeyed Miss Fapper, 'rapturoasly
applauding The Midnight Folli@.
what are the uses Of history" ~
the designers, IF not to turn It into
present user And SO. over and over,
the world Of appara greets the rising
of the medieval sun. season after sea-
son. decade after decade.
The medievalism Of the day need
not reflect the twelfth century Of the
early Britons. It can 60 back into
the days Of the Byzantium and It can
reflect the cdlorful glory Of Italy un-
der the birth Of the Renaissance. Ev-
cry page in history aaggests a whole
field Of costu3Hy to the designer who
reads it Alright. No wonder that we
continue to wear TIE clothes which
Dvered the women OF those centuries !
The Napdeonic period Is as deeply
impressed On the minds Of the design
ers. There was nothing medieval
about French costumery throughout the
reign Of the superman, but there were
90 many eccentncties. such q vast
variety Of beautiful lines and curves,
50 much glowing narrative and tragic
romance attached to the sweep Of q
skirt and the flow Of a sleeve, that the
dreszmakers psver get away from
those pages 6 costumery.
Napoeonic Again Threa~
Today we are again threatened With
the Napodeontc. We are almost stated
with medievalism. The nrectoire
oecko0s; the First empire allures.
IT, madness Of Mime. Tallien will not
be repeated today, unless France h
suddenly assured a victory, when, Il
histsry repeats itset she may 90 quite
mad again for q short. time, through
the costumery Of her women.
I, N thts glow az feeling toward the
Napolaonic period we are not even
averse to the laced bodice and the
gathered skirt of those "citoyennes"
VINO wrecked the Tuilertes and par
celed among them the anery Of the
Austrian.
Already the colored cotton bodice
laced with cords, instead Of fastened.
has come into being. The Liberty cap
- being brought at BY the milliners
In a modern form which is still the
symbol q equaiityNa and fraternity.
The high waistline and the long
skirt that droops N q simple nns from
bust toAntie hase BEEN introduced BY
powerful dedgneEA who have usually
had their Way "a, tbe world az fashion,
B1oad stripes In taffeta and soft silk
ere offered for 91rtz. separate pep.
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