Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-04
Bully Summer Wraps For Summer Nights
Are the Spanish ShawLs nov coming into the
Fashion Spotight---Euge Shell Combs, Too.
Written for the United Press BY MARGARET ROBE

Adele > beeemeso Spanish
Sac says sfsi, 81" for "yess;n
Aantillas. shawls and huge she'll combs
Compose her daily dress
But when large Spanish onions
She dimes On right hong
really think she's going il
A little bit too strong.
New York, June A-That insidious
Spanish influence is again swaying Us
serteFially. We are ensembled in the
eobweb stitches of the filmy lace man.
tilla, all wrapped mp in the gOrgeously
embFoidered silk fringed shawl that
and have bowed our heads beneath the
earven glories Of the huge shell comb.
Though the recent Spanish opera com
pa y at the Park Theatre has closed its
season, owing to the musicians strike
for weekly wage, it is yet the opru
season for Spanish dressing that prom.
ieses even French dressing bitter race
for popular favor.
Those gaudilygorgeous aud heetieally
hueful embroidered Spanish shaw.s,
whose long fringed edges wrap the fem
iniaeclitc of Spain on gala bullfight
days, make perfectly bully summer
evening wraps. to be worn at the end
of torrid day instead of at the end
of a toreador. Don't by any chance
make the mistake of wearing Chinese
embroidered shawl and faneying your
self espagnola, however. To be sure
there is little difference In the brands
at a disereetdistanee, but a close up
will reveal a subtle differing Of tex
ture and design. The greatest diff
Guilty of all, of course, is that the true
Spanish shawl never saw Spain at all,
but is manufactured in the PhilIpr.o
Islands. Converted into negIigees.
these brilliant coverings are simply
stunning and bring out the Carmen in
even the demarest of the species. 1t
only needs sliced Spanish onion for
atmosphere and guitar and castnet
duet on the Vietrola, to make the Ande-
luson quite complete.
Then there's the characteristic Span
ish mantilla, black or white, of exquis-
itely fine and silky handmade Spanish
] aee-some of filmy delicate design
and others more strikingly ornate and
of larger mesh. These we are flaunt-
ing. not as the CASTLE beauties over
their high combed eoiffures and ivory
throats and bosoms, but over our SHIN
mying. shimmering shoulders, in the
form Of scarves, so imperative now as
an accessory to the fluffy summer froek
of sheerest weave. It's really quite a
pleasant surprise to find that These
lovely lengths of Spanish lace actually
come from the Iberian peninsula, for
.anent that other Spanish accessory that
is rushing so persistently to our heads
1.-The high she'll comb, have my doubts
as TO its Spanish habitat. At least
judging from my own experience for I
simply .combed all the Madrid shops,
both large and small, for a real honest
to goodness Spanish comb and had TO
catch train to Paris, says the article.
Since returning home, however, have
made good the deficiency for the other
day / bought a stunning one in Brook
lyn.
In handcarved tortois, blonde or dark,
in amber Or in jet, these combs are as
expensive as they are large, beautiful
and fragile. Fortunately imitation shell
ones carved or plain, are mostly as inn
mune from detection as a well made
pearl They are also one fourth as ex-
pensive and four times as durable as
The real tortoise shell combs Worn in
the flooscly waved high coiffures of