The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-26
BY MARGARET RoHE.
oh the new fashioned girl
Is of old fashioned stripe
And her type | should say
MISUNDERSTANDING.

New York, April 26.-The way the
women are dressing is certainly tough
on the G. A. r. veterans. Why it gets
the old boys all mixed up till they
can't tell whether this is the end of
the World war or the Civil one. The
dear girls are all dressing the part as
if they were welcoming their heroes
home from Gettysburg instead of st.
Mihiei or the Argonne.
Looking like animated illustrations
from Godey's Lady's Book or moving
daguereotypes of grandma as a girl.
they button their tight little basques
down the front. fasten flat lawn or
lace collars demurely round their
Threats with a knot of velvet or a
cameo and peer coyly out from under
a perky wee sailor or a coquettish
poke.
All the old fashioned Civil war
time trimmings are edging our 1919
skirts. sleeves and pepIums with
fringe, ruching. quilting. pinking and
rows of velvet ribbon. If your clothes
start to fray. pray don't throw them
away. For frayed and raveled edges
on your taffeta frock are the smartest
turned up as usual, hens are turned
down completely as a finish for the
newest skirts. Where the old fash
Toned trimmings don't edge them.
narrow cording or just the selvage
does the trick.
Not only Civil war time trimmings
but materials as well are all the rage
and there has been a reversion to
surah and MORE silks. quantity pat
termed challis, lowered organizes and
chiffons and, of course. sprigged mus
Inns. calicos and prints.
The challis, charming in its pastel
colorings, tiny rose buds, dots of nose
gays, make especially attractive little
frocks for spring and summer that are
particularly adapted to "when-grand-
ma -was-a-girP' treatment.
The beaded reticule, the floating
scarf the fringe edged sash, the bell
sleeve, ruching edged. over an under
sleeve of organdie, the tiny carriage
parasol of lace, the flowing veil. the
short white gloves with above-the-e ell
bow sleeves the perky little low
bunch of ostrich plumes in arrears.
the ubiquitous dolman and, yes, even
the bouquets we hand ourselves and
pin at the corsage. primly tight and
paper frill. these, all these, are as
Civil-warish as these. uncivil and Boil
shevik days can make EN-.
After the severe puttee and khaki
feminine fashions of the last few
years, this is really the most attract
i've and softly seductively period of
style the pendulum of fashion could
swing back to. We will now go the
limit to look feminine and clinging
vine-like, altho even in our sprigged
muslins and streamer trimmed leg
horns we do not cease to demand the
vote.
Lovely Chiffons Seen.
A vote of thanks is indeed due to
the artist who brought out the lovely
printed chiffons of this season. They
are not splotched all over in huge
diabolical designs. like those of last
spring but artistically reveal at set
intervals lovely trailing rose garlands,
tied with true lovers knots. With
ivory white, silver gray and black
| backgrounds and made up to best
feature each design, these chiffons are
truly exquisite.
Aside from the. scarfs that have
been revived for wear with these
sweet costumes of chiffon, organdie.
challis and muslin. the fringed and
embroidered silk crepe shawls, of
which every we'll regulated grand
mother possessed a small collection,
are just the final fitting touch to a
| perfect toilette.
Lucky indeed the grandchild whose
grandmother numbered among her
collection one of those rare cobwebby
| three-cornered shawls of Chantilly
| lace. Sharper than a serpents tooth
/ it is to have a shawlless grandmother.
for we certainly shall shawl this sea-