The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
Thread lace revived for dinner gowns. The half decoletage considered smart New Egyptian lustrous cloth replaces tissue Wooden beads in brilliant colors-Zouave jackets that tie around the waist with a bow in back.

Paris and Palm Beach command the attention of those whose fortunes are lied up in women's apparel. Paris IS more important in large sense; Palm Beach in a smaller sense It depends on the viewpoint.
 Paris is exhibiting to the American buyers the things that We will wear; Palm Beach is exhibiting to socety and the fashion reporters those things that were devised for us to wear as long ago as the first of December.
 Paris is in the experiment stage; 1t is preparing for the future. Palm Beach is trying out what has been prepared. We have not as yet seen in this coun- n- try any of the new Paris gowns. In Palm Beach the gowns which were either invented by Americans or were sent over by Paris as forerunners, are being shown here, there and everywhere. 1t Is not possible, therefore, for sar- torial engineer to build connecting bridge between the two episodes in fash ion.
 Nearly all of the fashions that are worn at Palm Beach have been sketched and detailed in this department, be- cause they were turned out by Amerl- can dressmakers through local inspira- ton or through adaptation of early French models before or just after the Christmas season.
 Therefore, it is more important to dip into the future and recount what Paris has shown to the American buyers What is now worn in Palm Beach we will undoubtedly wear through the spring, but so far, in a big season of that resort, there is nothing of extraor- dinary originality, and whatever is done has been foretold and outlined.
 The unusual cold the extraordinary delays in travelling and the impossibility of getting ones trunks on time. have contributed to a state of irritation at Palm Beach that one does not associate with that land of lotus eaters and pleas ure seekers.
 Those who tried to escape the cold in the north by going to the sun of the south found themselves shivering in frost and facing ice storms. Those who were willing to make a journey which is long and somewhat tiresome in the best of railroading times arrived at their destination worn out by changes, de- lays, sidetraclzing and often lack of heat in the cars.
 It has been toss-up with the pleas ure seekers as to whether it was best to fight out the situation in the north or go to the evil they knew not of in the south. and the result has divided the great mass of moneyed people into two camps.
 The same trouble that confronted the pleasure seekers in going to Palm Beach were added thereunto 100 per cent for those who went to Paris to represent our business firms and bring back the allotment of 2OOO gowns. which we consider good showing in this country
 Last fall this allotment fell short by 800 gowns, and it is not easy to say whether the buyers will do better or worse this season. Cargo space is ex- ceptionally valuable going over, but there still seems to be much room com ing back, and the buyers have learned to bring great quantities or clothes into the port as personal baggage. which helps matters.
 Callot will not allow this and, there fore, the clothes from that house do not arrive until after most of the seasonal fashions are settled in this country.
 So, what Palm Beach is doing. we know. The gowns there show the sIen- der silhouette, a prevalence of black and white worn separately or together, the second introduction of gingham and