Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-03-16

New YOrk.-ParlS anu ruin DcdCA
command the attention Of those whose
fortunes are tied up in wOmen's ap-
parel. Paris is more important In a
large sense; Palm Beach in a small
er sense. It depends on the view
point.
Paris is exhibiting to the American
buyers the things that we will wear;
Palm Beach is exhibiting to society
and the fashion reporters those things
that were devised for US to wear as
long ago as the first of December.
Nearly all Of the fashions that are
worn at Palm Beach have been sketch
ed and detailed, because they were
turned out by American dressmakers
through local inspiration or through
adaptation of early French models
before or just after the Christmas sea-
son.
Therefore, a fashion writer states.
It is more important to dip into the fu-
ture and recount what Paris has shown
to the American buyers. What Is now
worn in Palm Beach we will undoubt-
edly wear through the spring, but SO
far, in a big season Of that resort,
there is nothing Of extraordinary orig
inality, and whatever is done has been
foretold and outlined.
It has been the toss up with the
pleasure seekers as to whether 1t was
best to fight out the situation In the
North or 60 to the evil they knew
not of in the South, and the result has
divided the great mass of moneyed
people into two camps.
The same trouble that confronted
the pleasure seekers in going to Palm
Beach were added thereunto 100 per
cent for those who went to Paris to
represent our business firms and bring
back the allotment Of 1000 gowns.
which we consider a good showing in
this country.
Last fall this allotment fell short
by 500 gowns, and it is not easy to
say whether the buyer will do better
or worse this season. Cargo space is
exceptionally valuable going over, but
there still seems to be much room
coming back, and the buyers have
learned to bring great quantities of
clio nes into the port as personal bag
gage, which helps matters.
Cabot will 0ot allow this, and. there
fore, the clothes from that house do
not arrive until after most of the sea-
sonal fashions are settled in this coun-
try.
So, what Palm Beach is doing, we
know. The gown there shows the
slender silhouette, prevalence OF
black and white worn separately or
together, the second introduction of
Bingham and the experiment with the
calico Of the Southern mills.
There is no return to lingerie gowns.
as was family promised. but there Is
an overwhelming vote cast for jersey
in it's artificial silk weave as we'll as
the thin wooden weave that looks like
mems underwear.
Cornflower blue, deep pink, plaids.
checks and touches Of crimson are
worn. None of these facts is new
to those who have watched the prog
ress of fashions since Christmas.
The Fashions In France.
In Paris, the buyers have not found
any astounding inspirations. but they
have been faced with enough that is
new to realize that they can make a
persuasive appeal to women in the
spring. They also know that the sill
houette has been definitely changed.
Skirts are exceedingly narrow at
the hem and tucked under, to resemble
zouave trousers; panels Of tulle and
of a new metallic Egyptian stuff are
used back and front to form this trou-
sered effect on q narrow skirt.
Girdles are wrapped around the
hips and waist, in Oriental form. The
hips are not fitted to the figure, I'M
less by one of these Oriental girdles.
While all the skirts are slender,