The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-28

Satin frock with no other trimming
than itself, in batt1eship gray. The
fringe at the hem is made from the
satin, the buttons are covered with
it, and the belt is piece OF 1t,
quilted.
All of these things give US more in
terest in our clothes, and they do not
tend to lessen the appearance OF oul
costumes. We treat with more respect
that garment to which we have given
some of our own vitality. 1t seems
far more precious than the thing we
picked up in a shop one afternoon and
had charged to husband, If husband
there was. Such transactions did not
build q bridge between the possessed
and the possessor.
Trimming Garments with Fringe.
1t is a sign of the times that we are
more careful with everything; that we
look with respect upon the thing that
has been bought for money, as well as
the thing made by our hands. We see
before us dwindling of raw materials
in the world, and even tho we, as
women, have never been trained in the
economical values of a nation, we real
ize that we can't get bread or meat,
wooden cloth, leather or trimmings for
the mere asking and paying.
We are not disheartened. We are
intensely vitalized by the beginning of
the need to use our ingenuity and our
courage in order to live well. You
know, we really have fighting spirit.
altho vast prosperity has padded
1t up a bit with undue flesh; and there
is not the slightest doubt that a little
starvation would quickly reduce the
undue flesh and display the fighting
| spirit which we have inherited from
| the hardest pioneers of history. And
the women intend to fight in their own
| homes for the esta adjustment of a
| schedule in food and PInfhoc xryI,i oI,
will show that our grandmothers did
not live and die in vain.
l think all this ingenuity is most
| enl1vening. The cause is tragic, but
the act itself is nothing short of the
4 salvation of a race. Women have
never been so interested in clothes
| You can see it on their faces and in
every shopping maneuver. They have
learned to do wonders by themselves
1t may seem a minor thing to you
who do not observe clothes, that cloth
covered buttons and fringed edges
have become the fashion, but the rea.
son for this is that women can do these
things at home out of scraps of ma
lterial.
Satin and Fringe Go Well.
There is no doubt that satin will
continue to be a leading fashion fol
the near future, and one of the CHIEF
reasons for it's popularity is what car
|
mentation. You can fringe it out il
the strips that go on the hem of E
skirt or sleeves; you can cover button:
with it; you can cut it into bias strips
cover able cord with it, and make thi.
cord into diverse and artistic loops
triangles and circles; you can pull on
it's threads and make dropstitch band!
that go straight around the figure Of
across each other; you can make
girdles out of it, and then twist odd:
and ends of it into alleged roses.
The sketch shows a satin gown tina
has not a particle of other materia
added to it for ornamentation. 1t Il
battleship grey. 1t has slightly full
skirt. which narrows at the hem. ha
piped seams of the satin and drop
stitch bands around the hips. 1t i
fringed with itself at the hem. Tn
bodice has piping over the shoulders
and irregular collar fashioned after tn
!. Ara bian burnous upturned hem
There are self-colored buttons and
quilted belt
All that went toward the making
, of this attractive frock was fey
/ yards of satin and the ingenuity of tn
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