The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-19
SHADOW TO GOVERN
ATTIRE OF WOMEN
SILHOUETTE is FINAL TEST ON
FORM CORRECTNESS. SILK
TAKES PLACE OF WOOL.

Are you dressing this spring with
an eye to your shadow? You should
to be correct, according to latest
style dictates.
And it is not a frivolous, passing
within of fashion that says so.
The majority of women dress be-
fore a glass which shows but half
the figure, and in consequence can
have no conception of the total effect
of their costume-that is the judg-
ment of those who understand the
artistry of dress. Even with a full
length glass the trick of dressing for
the effect on the whole figure is not
always easy. Therefore, the silhou-
cite lantern. Equipped with a cheval
glass and a silhouette lantern mi
lady's boudoir becomes an artists
studio.
Dressing for the silhouette means
dressing tremendously, with lines
that blend. 1t means choosing hat
not for the face alone, but for the
whole figure.
No Freaks and Fads.
The usual spring freaks and fads
of style are to be lacking this year.
Silk is the patriotic fabric above
all others, we are told One mustn't,
on any account, be lavish with serge
or other wooden goods. Cottons are
high and scarce, and silk, for the first
time in 10 these many, many years,
gives far greater value for its cost
than other goods. Bingham silks
there are to carry out the vogue of
the gay checks that were worn so
much last season. The note of olive
drab is frequently to be sounded in
silks, in the ever dependable foulards
and in taffetas. Often in the new
styles it is 'camoufaged" under the
names of "sand" color, Yankee
brown, or Sammy" color.
Colors, they say, will grow noisier
and noisier under the influence of the
war. Because of the general stress
and excitement and strain of the
times? Perhaps so, but there is an
additional reason, say they of the
Paris fashion world, in the effect,
psychologically, of this same art of
camoufage of which we hear so
much. Artists who have been dealing
in the broad, smashing effects used
to deceive the enemy's eye on the
battlefield bring back to the Paris
salon an echo of the same garishness.
Bustle Hat Completes Effect.
Have you seen milady's new hustle
hat? Dawson is being introduced
to it-a fetching little poke, with
high brim cooked up saucily at the
back and bearing just enough of
dainty French flowers or ribbon to
repeat the puff effect of the draped
dress or suit skirt. For the hustle
suit must needs have the hustle hat
for its accompaniment.
Most convenient of all the spring
features perhaps will be the skirt
with knitting pockets. Yes, real for
sure knitting bags they are, gay with
colored wooden embroidery perhaps,
If it is a serge skirt they are found
on, shirred bit if they come as a
part of a silk skirt. It's hard to i'm
agine that one could comfortably |
walk very far with a soldiers sweat
er dangling from the belt-but of
course one is expected to be knitting
while on the way.
Skin tight sleeves, short Jackets.
narrow skirts, use of silks and geor
gette in combination with serge or
IN place of it-these are the out
standing conservation measures of
the dressmakers for the coming
months. And above all, their use is
sensible, practical and pretty, ac-
cordlng to newest whiffs of spring
fashion breezes.