The commonwealth., 1917-04-13

NEW YORK, April6.- is tn
season Of the betting reign. Belts Ger
tainly reign supreme as the fad OF tn
moment and the shops and waistline
of the fair are simply flooded witt
them, provided of course that they ar
beaded. For belt without a bead OF
these days is as fat as a draught O.
matted brew is without the same.
Some Of the beaded belts are fiat any
way. These are the long fiat girdle:
elaborately and solidly beaded II gayly
colored designs with fringed ends OF
beads that are worn with the loose
straight lined Chinese gowns. These are
suggestive Of and indeed many are fas
hioned bv Indians-South Central anC
our own North American tribes. Indian
rope girdles Of beads tassellated ends
are also popular.
For wear outside of the new loose
silk coats and wraps are the Oriental
and Royal girdles Of metal links alter
mating with large beads, disks OF
squares Of imitation jade, crysephrase
and lapsis lazuli or with canoes, Chi
nese coins or jet nail heads
The more fantastic the color comb.
nations of these girdles, the more elab-
oratelv chased and carved the metal
links, the more effective and stunning
they are Almost all Of them will fin
ish with omnipresent tassel in metal or
beads
Though she struggles to be free, love-
ly woman still paradoxically loads her
self with chains. Not content even
with these beaded chain belts and Cir
dies she further shackles herself by
gavly slipping her neck into a rope Of
beads and metal links that are the me-
tai girdles on finer scale. An artistic
one Of slender silver links broken here
and there with balls of blue lapsis ad-
ded just the right touch to charming
putty toned gaba dine trimmed in en-
broidered bits of lapis blue and putty
tassels worn the other day. Really
nowadays your costume is not complete
unless you wear one of the metal Cir
dies or neck chains, earrings and fin
ger ring whose beaded charms bring out
the telling color note Of your gown.
Behold, the evolution of the bead GER
tainly makes the busy D. From bag
to belt from belt to bosom and from
bosom to BEAM we have it. For now
every swagger bonnet has bit of bead
ing on it. Some Of them are beaded to
beat the bands Of beads and yet others
rely solely on a single ornament of
beads in front or back, or side or wher-
ever the beads will be most telling.
The ornaments rather run to animal
effects and beaded bunnies, birds, fe-
lines and fishes perch rakishly abaft a
bonnet. Chantlclecr in gaudy beadery
is a popular favorite though it ism It
necessarily cooked hat that sports
this cocky design.
Beads of wood beads of glass and
beads Of every known composition, col
or and design adorn our headgear and
thus the head craze may be said to
have reached it's proper level for you
to see whether on beer or bonnets you
can It keep good bead down.
1t is odd to pause in the midst of
our beads and consider how all the
world has a beaded bend in common,
and how all the four corners of the
earth meet us on fashionable footing
is rather beading. From China we
gather in a glory Of beads and Indian
and Turkey lay further ones at our
fashionable shrine. We sport Indian
beads from the three America glass
and pearls from Italy and to account
our hat ornamentation comes this story
war, mesdames, is again the answer.
A village of French peasants for
years had piled their wooden bead
craft. When their village was shelled
by the German guns the survivors fed
to Paris. Here knowing nothing else
save their life work of fashioning
beads Of wood they returned to THEN
craft. They turned them out to be Gag
erly seized upon by the Partisan mod
istes as just the novelty they yearnet
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