The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-11

DQl MISS ZcplCT 80 hdAAS
Nought but Knit" said she.
NEW YORK June Stalk about the
wild and woody West. it isn't in it for
wildness and wooliness with the effete
East these days. You'll find all the
feminine wits on Fifth avenue have
gone wool gathering and now have their
hands full. In limousines. taxis and on
tops of buses, socks. mufflers and chest
protectors are growing for soldiers and
sailors.
/ even encountered several strolling
ladies with their knitting all ready for
business in one hand. not even under
cover of a hand bag. They held it
thus in the open so they could take
advantage of any little stopovers and
waits for traffic to take a few stitches,
en- PEASANT as it were. Most woody en-
thusiasts have their mufflers or their
chest protectors protected in one of the
gay cretonne knitting bags when not in
active use.
The array of these bags is positively
fascinating, So much so that even the
most rabid of anti-knitting would be
glad to yank hank of yarn and pair
of needles and get busy just in order
to bag a bag.
They are evolved from the brightest
bits of cretonne and figured linen trim
med in cords, tassels or galoon and
varicolored satin apples, fringes. fes-
toons and frills. Some more ornate. are
of silk and satin trimmed in French
ribbon flowers. Attached to the tall
walking sticks they are most handy for
those who walk while they work.
All the wool gathering isn't being
done for the military or the marines
though. by any manner Of means. 1t
takes three skeins to make a regulation
army navy muffler. but it is hard to
gauge just how much it takes to trim
and fringe milady's dress OF jersey
cloth, serge or georgette crepe. To be
a really successful frock it must have
wool embroidery around the hem. the
cuffs. the neck. the pockets and the belt
There are yarn tassels too and yarn
fringe to finish well and woody.
Wool doesn't even stop at outer gar
ments but invades the realm of lin
gerie. 1t is a far cry from the wooden
lingerie of 1917 to the aesthetic red
and grey wooden union suits our parents
used to make us don when we were
young and helpless. Today envelope
chemises, nighties and combinations of
salmon pink, purple or Turquoise blue
Georgette crepe are embroidered lavish
ly in yarn of divers hues. This modern
list underwear is certainly right up to
scratch
Shocks and slips over blouses of
Georgette crepe are also fulsomly
darned. Even some of the smartest new
bathing suits have the habit with run
ming little yarn fringes around their
abbreviated skirts and bobbing yarn
tassels on the pockets and topping the
smart and rakish bathing caps. 1t is
to be hoped. however. that a generous
cake of wool soap will accompany each
wool embroidered mermaid when she
goes in for her dip.
Dame Fashion is actually trying to
pull the wool over our eyes, as is evil
denced by the new yarn embroidered
and bordered wells that float in the
breeze from our close little hats
Then there are the hats themselves.
OF course they are numbered among the
woody ones. and parasols revel in raw
eled yarn fringes. and unfurl theri knit
ting new under the sun.
Collar and cuff sets of Georgette
crepe. button holed around their edges
in bright toned wool. are most effective
and Jabots. wool garnished, are neck
and neck with the latest summer modes.
Jabots of all sorts by the way. are very
much to the front and spill their frilly
froth of lace and cascades of chiffon
crepe over the smartest of tailored
lapels. OF finely pleated organdis,S ba-
tiste and muslin bordered In the mar
rowest of Irish crochet. Cluny or Filet
edge they are chic, though the flmy
lace ones are the loveliest of all
But to return to our muttons or rath-
er the outside of them. which is the
wool we mustn't forget the yarn en-
broidered negligees. house gowns and
robes in time in our resume of yarn
decked wearing apparel. They are all
quite exotically and erotically woody.
From all of which it is plain to be
seen that a 1917 reversion of Mother
Gooses famous ditty is badly needed
now. to run about like this:
Baa. Baa, black sheep.
Have you any wool?
Yes, kind master. three bags full;
One for the soldier,
The sailor the same,
And one. very large, for the fashionable
dame.