Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-03-06

New hat for the spring. II Is of dark
red straw with a large flower worked
out in worsted in the front
success a good many years ago. For
spring, the combination of materials,
which seems to please our own de-
signers and manufacturers equally
well, will be featured.
There really ought to be few woTp-
en- 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
II is difficult to think of abolishing II
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
ike 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.
In fact, jersey weaves have not in
the least diminished in popularity.
The first wool jersey woven In this
Uncle Joshs red underwear TO have
a success with fastidious women But
the weave has greatly improved.
AS for the silk varieties, there Is
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 LIS never lined. but Ii is worn
over lining of some sort made espe-
cially for it
Paris is using this heavy kind for
outdoor coats, some of them of the
slp-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
vall-hnofad hn ~ no ma
have retained our habit of slipping
off our outdoor garments at the
slightest provocation. The idea of
wriggling out of a coat made all in
one piece or pulling II over our heads
like sailor boy taking off his blouse,
does not appeal TO us; neither does
the French woman's way of getting
1t on again, which is simply TO make
a circle of the garment on the floor
and step into the middle of it, pulling
1t up around her. Here is another
reason for the retention of the small
hat Such feat would be impossible
in big one.
Most Of the milliners say small hats
for spring, for the beginning of spring
at any rate. Lewis is reported tc
have said ''toques" very distinctly and
TO be making them to suit individual
faces, by building them on the head
of client. fold by fold. 1t must be
an interesting operation to watch. OF
course. as long as hats do such things,
hairdressing is doomed to remain very
| much as at present. And no one has
either time or inclination to indulge
in the making of elaborate puffs and
curls in these times Of strenuous en-
| deayor. war work and 24-hour waking
/ days.
/ Copyright. 1877. by the Mcclure Neyspa.
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