The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-26
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS
ANNE ..4ss..n.r.. FOR WOMEN
The Recrudescence Of Jet has Com
mercial Reason Behind 1t, But a
Woman Asks for No Reason When
She Gets Permission to Use 1t.

Woman Asks for No Reason When
She Gets Permission to Use 1t.
New York.-It is said that the re-
vival of cut jet by the French dress
makers is due to the fact that the Eng
fish mines which produce jet are now
in working order. At Whitby, where
the jet grows, it used to be the daily
task of the monks to get this glittering
black material out of the earth. Today,
the miners are doing the same work.
1t is never necessary to give woman
a reason as to why she should wear jet
individually, and in mass, women like
it so much that they are apt to overdo
the fashion if one gives them a chance.
There is a curious psychology about
this prediction that no one mas 1atn-
omed. A woman may eseheW all or
namentation without protest, but she
never turns a deaf ear to jet and she
always feels herself quite gayly orna-
mented when she has a bit of it about
her person.
SPRING CLOTHES SHOW JET
The women have their desire for black
ornaments fully satisfied this sprl'is'
for Paris has decreed that jet may DC
| used on serge, satin, gabardlne' jersey
and tulle. The fashion may be over
done nv June. but if We look that posi-
bilitv straight in the face every time
We make a purchase in apparel or adopt
a new fashion. we will buy nothing mover
\ and remain sadly commonplace.
| In this war, at least, fashions 90 not
change within three months, and Set,
during the wars of the last Freh~h
Kings, the fashions changed over H!snt'
| and under the reign of the five dlrec7
1 for before the First consulate, they were
| known 70 change twice in day. mere
| fore. we are showing quite good deal
\ of consistency in clothes If We compaie
our behavior to that of other enhght-
ened nations during other PERIODS OIL
great wars.
The incoming of jet makes it posslnie
/ for the average woman to ACQUIRE
unite q good bit of fire and glitter about
an ordinary evening costume. She VINO
can't wear rhinestones or colored pearls
can wear bits of facetted black crystal.
So far, let is not unusually expensive
| If it is bought in the piece. but nina
you, the new fashion rests with jet
embroidery. Whenever one tries TO ncy
a garment on which there is any KIND
4 or nanIWOTk, HO iHdtlch III" S'iS>-fD-"
it is done at the source, the price goes
fright up as though it were a parachute
attached to a rising balloon.
The woman who does not wish to APP
pear too luxurious in wartime because
she has not the price of garment mana
embroidered in Jet, can at least keep
herself in the picture by putting a
buckle Of it on an evening gown, clasp
Of it at the shoulder, band of it at the
edge of a lace or tulle skirt drapery or
a flash of it here and there on a Clark
blue serge suit.
| STRAIGHT BARS OF JET
The sketch, which comes from Paris
and is one of the new gowns, shows
how France treats with jet. Instead OF
lusing it in ornate and intricate de-
signs, she places it in straight bars
across the black tulle and thereby OBJ
tains a smashing effect
This gown is built up of satin ano
ltulle, the former left plain and the lat
ter weighted with it's military bars. The
skirt has a panel of the embroidered
tulle on one side and full drapery OF
plain tulle at the other side. The skirt
is short with a curious train weighted
by a tasseL The bodice Is after the
Greek manner, and the plain tulle al
the right side is caught on the Shout
ders with a kind of cameo clasp made
of cut jet
To give brilliancy to this dead black
the wearer losses a scarf of bright greer
tule around her neck and catches II
over one arm