The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-03-30

New hat fer the spring. VI is Of dark
red tttaw withs large flower worked
out in worcted in the front.
success Il good many years ago. For
spring, the combination OF materials,
which seems to please our own de-
signcrs and manufacturers equally
well, will be featured.
There really ought to be few WON.
on with ''the face" to knit In colored
woods for their own adornment, In
these days of crying demands from
the army and navy. But the slip-on
garment without sleeves has taken
such hold upon our affections that
1t Is difficult to think of abolishing It
altogether. Nor need we do so. Amer
lean designers, anxious to serve their
soldiers and sailors In this vital mat.
ter, have had the cleverness to offer
the same type of garment In mate
rails Of which there is, at present, NO
such pressing need.
Vests of fannels, Of heavy shan
lungs and other rough weaves of silk,
even of satin, made almost exactly
like the sweater vest Of last summer,
have been made up and are being Of
fered to women whose patriotic inten-
ton might weaken II these novelties
were any less attractive than they
are. Jersey, both In wool and silk, is
another favOrite material for them.
Jersey Weaves Taken Up.
N T..
the least diminished in popularity.
The first wool jersey woven in this
country was rather too reminiscent of
Uncle Josh's red underwear to have
a success with fastidious women. But
the weave has greatly improved.
AS for the silk varieties, there Is a
heavy sort, of vegetable fiber, which
Is Immensely satisfactory. 1t is heavy
and lustrous and not too stretchable.
1t hangs In the rich, long folds that
cling to the figure and lends itself
particularly well to strictly one-piece
frocks or coats which hang from the
shoulders In an Oriental effect. Such
material is never lined, but 1t is worn
over q lining of some sort made espe- |
clally for 1t.
Paris is using this heavy kind for
outdoor coats, some of them of the
slip-on over the head sort, which have
failed to achieve success with us. but |
which she still fancies. Our hotels.
restaurants and houses are still, in
spite of threatened coal famine, so
well-heated, for the most part, that we |
have retained our habit of slipping |
of our outdoor garments at the
slightest provocatien. The idea of |
out Of coat made all In |
one piece or pulling II over our heads
like a sailor boy taking Off his blouse,
does not appeal to us; neither does |
the French woman's way OF getting
It on again, which Is simply to make
q circle of the garment on the floor
and step into the middle of II, pulling
Il up around her. Here is another
reason for the retention OF the small
hat. Such feat would be Impossible
In a big one.
Most Of the mllllners say small hats
Tor spring, for the beginning of spring
ut any rate. Lewis Is reported to
nave said "toques" very distinctly and
% be making them to suit indiyidual
'aces, by building them on the head
" a client, fold by fold 1t must be
In Interesting operation to watch. OF
course, rs long MS hats do such things.
Is doomed to remain very
much as at present. And no one has
'ither time or inclination to indulge
n the making OF elaborate pufrs ana
urls In these times Of strenuous en-.
lcayor, war work and "a hour waking
lays.
Copyright. 1917. by the NJ. lure Nevspa.
per Syndicatf.)