The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-04
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS ANNE u,4ss,uor,n FOR WOMEN
By ANNE RITTENHOUSE
Evelet Embroidery Makes Its Ap- pearance on Shirtwaists as Well as on Muslin and Linen Frocks-lt Also Appears on Hats


 Nav York, August 3-A woman who has vision in fashions bought TOT an absurdly small sum of money, a whlte linen gown covered with an elaborate design in eyelet embroidery It was thrust at the dawn of spring ln1o d mass of bargain garments on a large counter.
 Her friends, who were shopping with her. were amused at such purchase' Today they go about envying the woman who had vision and who bought the gown for something like s5, for they would be compelled to pay 10 times that much for the same kind of frock maoe to fit them.
 There are actually people who see ahead in fashions, seemingly without any secret and powerful connection "lth the sources of style. It is not anythlng rnore or less than an extraordinary sense of what is coming, which is gained by reading intelligently and watchlng the straws of rumor as they rise from the ground. to see what direction they take. SPIRIT OF WRECKLESS BUYING
 Hundreds of women have this so- called gift. It has it's great advantages and actual disadvantages. It is all very well to buy few excellent garments with an eye to their immediate use, and to buy them with the vision that says they will be successful and fashionable but the average woman who possesses this instinct for what is coming is apt to take advantage of too many bargains She cannot resist the temptation to gam ble; she is like a speculator who has had run of luck. She heaps up un- available clothes in her closet. She piles her shelves with vast variety of things that she has not the opportunity to use.
 When the woman who has no vision. but buys sanely and consistently along the lines of immediate fashion, consid- CTS the woman with the vision plus the recklessness of purchasing lavishly. she thinks that possibly, after all, she is to be congratulated.
 Those who read intelligently and search through the byways of fashion for the new note to be heard in the near future, knew in March that eyelet embroidery
  Is not used in a popular manner, which Is so much the better for those who wish to dress out of uniformity with their neighbors.
 The stiletto and the buttonhole stitch are being unceasingly combined by those who go in for new kinds of needleworlS and the shops offer agreeable designs in shirtwaists, separate skirts and hats
 Blouses of chiffon as well as linen have a bit of colored eyelet embroidery to en- liven the surface. Informal dinner gowns of soft taffeta and satin have lowered designs of eyelet embroidery in gold and silver, which reveal a colored underslip in an agreeable contrast to the outer skirt
 Sturdy shirtwaists for young girls have eyelet embroidered collars and cuffs. So far, one does not find many of the sep- arate accessories with the needlework embroidery, but if the fashion lasts, the shops will probably put out goodly num- Der of such things.
 The milliners have found that fioriated designs in eyelet embroidery turn plain hat into something rather remarkable. Wide-brimmed hats which are longer at the sides than at front and back-the newly accepted shape-have no trimming whatever, but delicately conceived designs in eyelet embroidery worked over the high, stiff crown and the brim The
  and the lining beneath is in direct color contrast to the material above.
 WHITE FLANNEL SKIRTS
 The sketch shows a handkerchief linen blouse, with the new type of collar, roll ing high at the back and spreading to sharp points above the waist. This is trimmed with embroidered eyelets worked in geranium pink. There is also a row of the eyelets down the front of the blouse, and in a bias line across the cuffs.
 By the way, the skirt which is worn with this blouse is worth emphatic at- tention. It is of white French flannel, with well pressed pleats, and 1t is offered as relief from jersey cloth. The pockets are placed in an unusual manner and are supposed to hold golf and tennis balls. The girdle which goes twice about the waist and ties in front is of gera-