The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-26
written for The United Press
Oh the new fashioned girl
Is of oldfashioned stripe
By Margaret Robe

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NEW YORK, April 25-The way
the women are dressing is certainly
tough on the G. A. r. veterans. Why
lit gets the old obys all mixed up till
they can't tell whether this is the end
of the World war or the Civil one
The dear girls aie all dressing the
part as if they were welcoming their
heores home from Gettysburg instead
of st. Miheil or the Argonne.
Looking like animated illustrations
from Godey's Lady's Book or moving
daugerreotypes of GRANDMA as a girl,
they button their tight little basques
down the front, fasten fiat lawn or
lace collars demurely round their
threats with a knot of velvet or
cameo and peer coyly out from under
perky wee sailor of coquettish
poke.
AL the old fashioned civil war time
trimmings are edging our 1919 skirts,
sleeves and pemplums with fringe,
ruching, quilting, pinking and rows
of velvet ribbon. If your clothes
start to fray, pray don't throw them
away. For fraycd and revclcd edges
on your taffcta frock are the smartest
touches of all. Instead of being
turned up as usual, hens are turned
down completely as a finish for the
newest skirts. Where the old fash
ioend trimmings don't edge them, a
narrow cording or just the slevage of
the goods does the trick.
Not only Civil War Time trimmings
but materials as we'll are all the rage
and there has been revision of surah
and MORE silks, puaintly patterned
challis, lowered organizes and chif-
fons and of course, sprigged mus
Inns, caicos and prints.
The challis, charming in its pastel
colorings, tiny rose buds, dots of nose
gays, make especially attractive little
rrocks for Spring and summer that
are particularly adpated to when
l grandma-was-a-girl" treatment.
The beaded reticule, the floating
scarf, the fringed edge sash, the bell
,cleeve, ruching edged, over an under
sleeve of organic, the tiny carriage
parasol of lace, the flowing veil, the
short white gloves with above-the ell
9 bow sleeves, the perky little low
Q crowned sailors tilted to the fore with
a bunch of ostrich plumes in arrears,
the Ubiquitous dolman and, yes, even
the bouquets we hand ourselves and
min at The corsagc, primly tight and
ct affairs encircled with lace paper
frill, these all these are as Civilwarish
as these uncivil and bolsheviki days
can make EN-.
/ After the severe puttee and KHAKI
E. feminine fashions of the last few
years, this is really the most attrac
: tive and softly seductively period Of
stvle hte pendulum of fashion coult
swing back to. We will now go thu
limit to look feminine and clingini
vine-hkc, although even in our sprlg
ged muslins and streamer trimme
leghorns we do not cease to deman
the vote.
A vote of thanks is indeed due t
the artists who brought out the Lowell
printed chiffons of this season. The
are not splotched all over in huge d
abolical designs, like those of las
Spring, but artistically reveal at sc
intervals lovely trailing rose garland'
tied with true lovers knots. Wit
ivory white, silver grey and blac
backgrounds and make up to bes
. feature each design, these chiffon
are truly exquisite.
Aside from the scarves that thav
been revived for wear with thes
}. sweet costumes of chiffon, organdit
chalis and muslin, the fringed an
embroidered silk crepe shawls, O
which every well regulated CRANE
&c mother possessed small collection
are Just the fitting touch to a perfe(
toilette.
Lucky indeed the grandchild who's