The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-11-29
Buy Wisely and
With Much Care

useful TO the war out of the pail that
once was n0sed by the dogs and
dumped into outer darkness.
Why Women Buy With Care.
So even though the American woman
may not wish to wear one good cos
tune throughout the season, her pa-
trlotlsm commands her TO do IT, This
is the kernel of the entire situation.
She buys In order that her clothes may
last. She does not wish TO take the
time to constantly mend cheap clothes
and renew them at odd moments. She
has gone back to the ways of her
great-grandmOther who chose mate
rial carefully and In many lights, paid
good price for II, and expected II
10 live up to Its reputation.
a woman who goes into n shop this
season TO buy an everyday gown, pays
! $50 where she once paid SIS for II.
This is as near the average figure as
/ the shops can get She asks II the
material will wear II It Will hold its
dye. If the seams and stitchery arv
good and when she finds that they are
just what they once were, ut that
they are not up to her modern stand
ard of purchasing, she adds $40 or SIS
to the price and buys another gown
that suits her judgment.
No one is happier over The state Of
affairs than the shopkeepers. They
prefer TO sell fewer gowns at good
prices, for, while 1t is not necessary
to renew them in few months they
give greater satisfaction to both par.
ties.
Styles That Remain With Us.
The continuance of the chemiSe
frock and the sandwich silhouette has
given comfort to many women, because
it allows them to wear, for time,
the frocks they possess. Whether or
rot this silhouette will die out as the
season strengthens no prophet can
tell us; but there is uneaslness among
those who watch fashions closely.
Everywhere one finds a tendency to
widen the hips. We are trying TO get
peg-tOp silhouette as opposed to
planked shad silhouette. If this change
comes about, the straight chemise
frOcks or tunics will not have as much
value as they have today.
1t is not only the Americans, but
also the French, who have proposed
this silhouette. 1t Is not universal;
one sees n continuance of the straight
line on the great majority of French
and American clothes, but with more
tendency toward the peg-top outline in
the homemade things than in tie for
eign ones, except from houses like
CallOt.
The reason for this innovation is duo
20 tile military and it is strange that |
ii did not occur before the fourth |
year of war. We have admired the |
of mannish wide hips and !
narrow ankles for many months with.
out thought Of introducing it in won.
ems clothes. Now it is here and it is
carried out in almost the identical !
manner that the military tailOrs use
with mems trousers.
Simplicity VS.. ornamentation.
Another subtle change that has come
across the sky of fashions since tho
first French styles were shown is
to eliminate much Of the
with which the season began.
There was an overelabOratiOn of rich
and massive embroidery, of tassels,
Of colOred facings, Of strips Of me-
tallic ribbons, and Of other strange
md capricious gewgaws that the mind
can invent when large ideas are lack
ng. The universally of all this Or
such, for instance as
miles of fringe, was its own undoing.
1t bOrdered, dangerously, on the ugli.
est period of mid-VictOrianism. 1t
gave one an unpleasant memory, even
f a far-Off one, of beribbOned milk
stools and frying pans in the parlOr.
Copyright, 1918, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)