Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-06
Belts Reign
Supreme In
Style
BY MARGARET MASON.


Have gone to Milady's head.
NEW YORK, April 6.-This is the
season of the betting reign. Belts GER
tainiy reign supreme as the fad of the
moment and the shops and waistlines
Of the fair are simply flooded with
them, provided Of course that they are
beaded. For belt without bead on
these days is as fiat as q draught of
matted brew is without the same.
Some of the beaded belts are fiat
anyway. These are the long fat cir
dies deliberately and solidly headed II
gayly designs with fringed ends of
beads that are j worn with the loose,
straight lined Chemise gowns. These
are suggestive of and indeed many are
fashioned by Indians-South Central
and our own North American tribes.
Indian rope girdles of beads with
beaded tassellated ends are also pop
ular.
For wear outside of the new Dose silk
coats and wrops are the Oriental and
Royal firdles of metal links alternat-
ing with large beads, disks or or a
series of imitation Jade, crysephrase
and lapis lazuli or with canoes. Chin
csc coins or jet nail heads.
The more fantastic the color combi-
nations of these girdIes, the more ell
Alternately chased and carved the metal
links, the more effective and stunning
they are. Almost all Of them finish
with omnipresent tassael in metal or
beads.
Though she struggles to be free, low
ely woman still parodoxically loads
herself with chains. Not content even
with these beaded chain belts and
gridles she further shackles herself by
.ayly slipping her neck into a rope OF
beads and metal links that ape the
metal girdles on finer scale. An ar
tistic one of slender silver links broken
here and there with balls of blue lapis
added just the right touch to charm
ing putty toned garbardine trimmed in
embroidered bits of lapis blue and
putty tassels worn the other day. Real
lily nowadays your costume is not
complete unless you, wear one of the
metal girdles or neck chains, earrings
and finger ring whose beaded charms
bring out the telling color note of your
gown.
Behold, the evolution of the bead
certainly makes the busy B. From bag
to belt from belt to bosom and from
bosom to "bean" we have it. For nov
every swagger bonnet has a bit Of
beading on it. Some or them are bead
ed to beat the band with bands of beads
and yet others rely solely on single
ornament of beads in front, back oil
side or wherever the beads will be
most telling. 1r.
The ornaments rathr run to animal
fleets and beaded munnies, birds, fel'
ines and fishes perch rakishly abaft
bonnet. Chanticleer in gaudy beadery
is a popular favorite though it ISM
necessarily a cooked hat that sports
this cocky design.
Beads of wood, beads Of glass and
beads of every known composition
color and design adorn our headgear
and thus the bead erase may be said to
have reached its proper level for you
see whether on beer or bonnets you
can't keep good bead down.
1t is odd to pause in the midst OF
orr heads 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
or 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 American glass
and pearl beads from Italy and to ac'
count for the impetus given wooden
beads in our hat ornamentation comes
this story.
A village of French peasants for
years had piled their wooden bead
craft. When their village was shelleo
by the German guns the survivors fled
to Paris. Here knowing nothing else
save their life work Of fashioning beads
of wood they returned to their craft
They turned them out to be eagerly
seized upon by the Partisan modistes
as lust the navelty they yeaFned for
/ Hence as usual the, reply to all our
present day fads and fancies; the war
mesdames, is again the answer.