The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1918-10-10
Questions That Women Ask.

1t is to the fabrics, therefore, that
the great majority of women will turn.
Is 1t serge, they ask, or jersey?
Smooth fabrics or rough ones? Does
mldnight-blue hold its own? Is Ok
ford gray again in fashion? Are eve
ming gowns light, brilliant or somber
in coloring? Does taffeta continuef
Will satin be good?
These are quotations, not imagina-
lions. They are asked by the swirl
ing tide of women who are trying to
make every dollar realize its full value
today. They have taken to heart the
twin doctrines of conservation and
economy. "Non-esscntial" is over the
doorway of every home and in the
heart of every worker. We must buy,
for we must be clothed, and we wish
to keep. in service those who have
served us; but we must not buy idly,
nor foolishly, nor with an eye to our
selfish comforts, rather than the good
of the majority.
To, buy the material that Is out of
fashion Is wasting money. There are
those who will cry aloud in protest
against such statement, but it Is
quite true. We gain nothing by CIV
ing ourselves a new cause for discon-
tent. When 1t Is as easy to be In the
fashion as out of 1t, 1t shows efficiency,
good judgment and level head to
walk in the right path.
The Right Path.
To those who inquire as to what Is
the right path, therefore, 1t is wise to
say that there Is an undoubted tend
ency toward the imitation Of animal
hides in fabrics, but that one should
go warlly among such novelties. The
main truth Is that very smooth ma
terials have lost their SAVIOR and that
increasing roughness is prophesied.
1t Is quite possible that these new
fashions in fabrics will keep serge out
of first place. One finds 1t offered by
! the best tallors and dressmakers, but
already women look bit askance at
1t when they see piled up against 1t
the new fabrics that represent diff
| ferent epoch in weaving.
AS for taffeta, 1t seems to be left in
the cold. 1t Is used by such artists us
Nine Paquln of Paris and her fol-
lowers in this country for young girls,
but not, for women; and for evening,
not for the day hours. 1t Is in rich
light blue that 1t Is most frequently
employed, and 1t Is theL trimmed with
silver flowers and white monkey fur.
There Is dearth Of satin. 1t Is too
early to say whether it will be en-
tirely abandoned in this country, but
at the moment it is not represented in
the new French frocks in the generous
manner Of other days.
All the designers are lavish with
velvet, as in the medieval days, and
1t is used in the picturesque Italian
fashion, ornamented with superb EN-
broideries Of metal and silk.
So far, these richly decorated vel
vets, as well as the plain weave, are
kept for the evening, but there are
many tobacco brown and leather
shades, and dark blue ones, used fol
the afternoon. There are also leather
shades. by the way, in heavy quality
of satin, which looks like cloth and Is
trimmed with wool embroidery. These
leather tones are hardening back t.
medieval days, and to those centuries
when Spain led the world In dress, as
France does today. 1t was then thai
Spain made her Cordova and Morocco
leather famous.
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