The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-06
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Copyright by Newspaper Syndicate

introduction of the scarf is sure to
follow them. A scarf is a delightfully."-
feminine garment-juSt the sort OF an
adjunct to dress that the war-worn
veteran declares he most admires. The
pathetic appeals to women to remain
as feminine as possible. which we
hear from the camps and from the
front, cannot be ignored. We may
be tailored as we please in the morn
ing, but surely no woman will be
hard-hearted enough to resist the
pleading in the afternoon. II he
wants to see us in fragile fabrics and
fripperies, far be it from us to re-
| fuse. So welcome the scarf. for it is
almost as effective a bit of subtelty
as the fan, that weapon of woman
kind itself.
Fashions are taking picturesque
| turn for such gowns, SO the revival
of the demure taffeta fichu, with its
pleated ruches or the fringed bit of
embroidered null or the trail Of chif-
fon edged with ostrich fules, is in
order. The tulle wisps that swathe
our hats and twirl around our necks,
fluttering behind US so alluringly,
| threaten to be overdone. 1t is a Sc
ductive fashion, but it is too cheap
and easy to keep. It his been over
done already. But every woman who
has a little ingenuity and, what is
much rarer these days, a little spare
time. can construct filmy bits of dra-
perry of strictly feminine fabrics. like
chiffon, which she may twist about
her as fancy dictates. If she is the
fortunate possessor of some old India
muslin, nothing could be lovelier 1t
sugguests coral necklaces and 1ockets
on black velvet ribbon, and other
tricks of an age when it was CONNIE
| II faut" to shrek at a mouse and to
faint on the slightest provocation Re-
vive the lockets and the fripperies by
all means, but do not think it neces-
sary to revive the shrieking and faint
ing. Such resources are not strategy
any longer; they are just a bore, and
| the charge of being bore is the most
deadly that can be brought against
either man or woman.
Made Of White Satin.
White satin has had a long inning.
Tho not as popular as they were a
| season or SO ago, white satin collars
and cuffs continue in good taste and
good style, and there are a dozen uses
| to which we put white satin that had
not been thought of couple of years
ago.
1t took the war bride who found
| herself possessed of a lavish roll of
heavy white satin to discover the man
Hold uses to which this fabric could be
put. She had expected a white SATIN
wedding, OF course. and before she
mad decided on her bridesmaids or
whether she would be married on
Wednesday or Saturday, Thursday or
Friday. she bought the white satin.
And then, as always happens, she got
word from her lieutenant husband that
the wedding would really have to
come Off within two weeks. After
that there was either to be work in a
distant camp or work overseas No
one gainsays the soldier husband now
adays. and even fond mammas dream
ing Of bridal wells and wedding cake
have to give in to these sudden
changes of plan. So the wedding took
place before a few friends and the
bride wore her travelling suit-a ready
| mae one, to be sure, altered as best
1t could be to save the time of having
one made to measure. And there was
| the white satin. There were yards and
yards of it. 1t must be that the bride
and her mother had planned for a
really majestic train, for there was
enough to make more than two ordi-
nary wedding gowns
or course. if put away in blue paper
white satin will stay white and per-
haps it could have been given to a
younger sister or cousin or saved for
| a possible daughter. But boarding
even of satin isn't fashionable nova
days. So the bride decided to use it!
The dressmaker gave her the first