The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-31

order, but times and thoughts have
changed Japanese art has been SO
cheaply commercialized throughout
America, and it's little shops outline the
boardwalks of the pleasure resorts in
such prolific manner, that we prefer
to go to China-the vast spaces around
the great wall-for suggestions.
The greater designers in Paris have
preferred China to Japan for half dozen
years, and we in America have made
the kimono too much part or our
early morning life, at 81 per garment,
that we may not see in this effort of the
house of Cheruit an open path to beauty.
ENTIRE GOWNS OF JET
The house of Callot has thrown its
influence into many channels, and the
gowns of it's making, which arrived IN
this country later than all the others,
| increase the respect we must pay to jet
| The woman who has cherished frock
| of jet and wondered il the style would
ever return in order that she might re-
| vive it into something modern, may go
to the work with enthusiasm
| Callot is not the only designer VINO
whirls Jet around the wheel of fashion
+! into the top place, but she is the one
designed who introduces entire gowns
| of il. These are coat-of-mail creations,
that cling to the figure like glittering
cuirass and whiten in brilliant way the
| skin of the neck and arms, which are
left uncovered. These gowns have trains
of tulle or lace, and they are costly-O!
very, very costly!
| To the average mind they may seem
| bit heavy for an American spring, and
| it is safe to say that the woman who buys
costly evening gown in April of this
year 1918 will expect it to do duty
| through the summer season. Even our
glittering birds Of paradise, who hereto
fore floated through forest of riches
showing their plumage and thinking
nothing of the cares of life, have been
changed heart and soul by the war and
! it's terrors into creatures of self-sacri-
flee and much higher ideas.
They buy clothes yes; they pay good
prices for clothes--to do otherwise would
be selfish and unpatriotic; but they have
an eye to wastage and a brain that yields
| to the appeal of conservation. Again,
| they have neither the vitality nor tho
] time to bother with many clothes and
many changes of apparel.
The other night at large dinner in
a Fifth avenue house, the hostess turned
out all the electric lights as she pro-
| ceeded toward the dining room, saying
81 have wanted to do this all my life
and never could indulge my within until
the war made it the fashion" And she
Expressed the feeling of every woman in
1.-THE land about most extravagances
Through the absence of social fear and
the promotion OF physical and moral
courage which this war brings out may
come the regeneration and the redemp-
ltion of all our social customs
| CHOOSING GREEN FOR SUITS
Another thing that the house of Cabot
has done to get us away from conven-
tional fashion is the exploitation OF
green for the street. 1t may be roughly
said that there are thousand navy blue
gowns to hundred of any other color
and admirable as dark blue is, the wcrlo
! igrows bit weary of the monotonous
, procession of gowns in this colorswhict
, moves to and fro from France to Alas
]. ka. We cry aloud for something else
: We are like the heroine of the novel. wht
, passionately wished for just a thread o
a scarlet y her costume to make her be