The Jasper news., 1918-11-21

uSeIui TO the war out OF the pail thht
once was nosed 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 senson, her pa-
triotism commands her to do 1t. THIS
is the kernel of the. entire situation.
She buys In order that her clothes mny
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
a good price for 1t, and expected 1t
to live up to its reputation.
A woman who goes into a shop this
season to buy an everyday gown. pays
$50 where she once paid $18 for 1t.
This is as near the average figure as
the shops can get. She asks If the
material will wear, II 1t will hold its
dye, II the seams and stitchery are
good, and when she finds that they ore
just what they once were, but 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
1t allows them to wear, for time.
the frocks they possess. Whether or
Tot this silhouette will die out as the
season strengthens, no prophet can
tell us; but there is uneasiness among
those who watch fashions closely.
Everywhere one finds 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 continuance of the straight
line ON the great majority of French
nnd American clothes, but with more
tendency toward the peg-top outline in
the homemade things than In the for
eign ones, except from houses like
Callot.
The reason for this innovation is due
to the military and 1t Is strange that
1t did not occur before the fourth
year of war. We have admired the
silhouette of mannish wide hips and
narrow ankles for many months with
out thought Of introducing 1t in wom-
ems clothes. Now 1t is here and 1t is
carried out In almost the identical
manner that the military tailors use
with mems trotsers.
Simplicity We. characterization.
Another subtle change that has come
across the sky of fashions since the
first French styles were shown is
tendency to eliminate much Of the
trimming 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
and capricious gewgaws that the mind
can invent when large ideas are lack
ing. The universally of all this or.
nnmentation, such, for instance as
miles of fringe, was its own undoing.
1t bordered, dangerously, on the ugli.
est period of mid-Victorianism. II
gave one an unpleasant memory, even
If far-off one. of beribboned milk
stools and frying pans In the parlor.
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