Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-07-18

able woman was summer in Sara
toga, Fair of drop solitaire earrings,
short, untrimmed sealskin sacaue
and a hat Ornamented with two or
more long, floating ostrich plumes.
The diamond earrings will not re-
turn to fashion, but the ostrich feather
and the sealskin coat will come out on
the primrose path of fashion in the
early autumn.
The women of England and France
was first demanded by those who made
money in munitions and had to spend
it on the symbols of luxury; but soon
the French women took it up for it's
beauty and again we have soft felt hats
with blue and rose pink, black and
brown thickly curled ostrich plumes
floating around the crown and drop
ping down on the shoulder.
One of the new bits of millinery
shows a hat that has a Joffre blue
plume pulled around over the left
shoulder like a curl, and one gets a
quick, flashing backward glimpse of
those women of royal France who
hunted through the forests with a
plume down their back and falcon in
their hand.
New Suits Show PeItry.
The American designers, as we'll as
those in France, are taking time by
the forelock and exhibiting autumn
gowns that may be bought at the pres
ent moment and worn at summer re-
sorts cool enough to make fur endur-
able.
To the outsider, the very thought of
peltry in our hot, humid climate dur
ing July and August, is depressing; but
there are thousands who are not so
easily depressed by a circumstance
over which they have full control.
They want fur; they like to wear it,
and it pleases them to make piquant
contrast between their costume and the
thermometer.
Therefore, the designers will let
them have their way. They not only
give them separate pieces of fur, but
gowns trimmed with it, capes bordered
with it and blouses heaped with it.
Mind you, they are not stingy about
fur on these new clothes. There is not
tiny fringe of it on a chiffon ruffie,
as in other days, but it is used in a
bold and lavish manner, such as 20
inch bands medieval sleeves and huge
girdles with bows at the back.
It does not take superfine reckoning
to realize that the American sealskin is
about the only fur that can be used in
this generous fashion. The stiff-haired
pelts cannot be manipulated into pieces
of a garment; they must remain as
separate entities used as accessories.
Initiates Medieval Coat of Mail.
We are not only going to embellish
our bodies with soft furs as a protest
and protection against the lack of coal
and hot water in zero winters, but we
delightedly find that the designers are
giving to the world a new material
that looks exactly like coat of mail.
Women will have jenkins of it with
sealskin sleeves, Or they will have long
tunics of it, girdled at the waist with
Indian red silk and glittering in the
sun.
There will be short skirts of seal
skin sometimes worn under these long
jenkins or coats Of mail, and there will
be evening gowns built of this silver
and gold coat of mail cloth.
In contrast to these glittering and
sumptuous fabrics of a day when men
had to wear armor as a constant pro-
lection from the danger thrust Of an
enemy, are the new coats Of leather.
They simmer and shine in the rain !;
they protect one from the cold; they
will be used as jenkins, as short jack
cts over thick, wooden skirts when the
autumn comes.
This fashion has been stolen of it's
glory in October by smart women al
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