The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-24
BULLY SUMMER WRAPS FOR
SULTRY SUMMER NIGHTS.
Written for United Press.)
By Margaret Robe

A little bit too strong.
NEW YORK, May 23.-That in
sdious Spanish influence is again
swaying us sarterially. We are en-
meshed in the cob-web stitches of the
flmy lace mantilla, all wrapped up in
gorgeously embroidered silk fringed
shawl and have bowed our heads be-
meath the carven glories of the huge
shell comb.
Though the recent Spanish opera
company at the Park Theatre has
closed its season, owing to the mu-
sicians strike for weekly wage, it
is yet the open season for Spanish
dressing that promises even French
dressing a bitter race for popular
favor.
Those gaudily gorgeous and hecti-
cally hueful embroidered Spanish
shawls, whose long fringed edges
wrap the feminine elite of Spain on
gala bullfght days, make perfectly
bully summer evening wraps, to be
worn at the end of a torrid day in
stead of at the end of toreador.
Don't by any chance make the fatal
mistake of wearing Chinese EN-
broidered shawl and fancying your
self espagnola, however To be sure
there is little difference in the brands
at discreet distance, but closeup
will reveal a subtle differing of text
ure and design. The greatest diff
ference of all, of course, is that the
true Spanish shawl never even saw
Spain, but is manufactured in the
PHILIPPINE Islands. Converted into
negligees, these brilliant coverings
are simply stunning and bring out
the Carmen in even the demurest of
the species. 1t only needs a sliced
Spanish onion for atmosphere and a
guitar and castenet duet on the vic
trola, to make the Andeluson delu-
sion quite complete.
Then there's the characteristic
Spanish mantilla, black or white, of
exquisitely fine and silky handmade
Spanish lace-some of filmy delicate
design and others more strikingly or
nate and of a larger mesh, These
we are Haunting, not as the Castillan
beauties over their high combed Golf
fures and ivory throats and bosoms,
but over our shimmying, shimmering
shoulders, in the form of scarves, so
imperative now as an accessory to
the fluffy summer frOck of sheerest
weave. It's really quite pleasant
surprise to find that these lovely
lengths Of Spanish lace actually come
from the Iberian peninsula, Tor
anent that other Spanish accessory
which is rush so persstently to our
heads, the high shell comb, | have
nv doubts as to it's Spanish habitat.
At least Judging from my own eXpe-
rience for | simply combed all the
Madrid shops, both large and small,
for a real honest-to-goodness Span
ish comb and had to catch the train
J to Paris. says the article Since re-
turning home, however, have made
good the deficiency for the other day
bought a stunning one in Brooklyn.
In handcarved tortoise, 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 PLAN,
are almost as immune from detcc-
ton as a we'll made pearl They are
also one-fourth as expensive and four
times as durable as the real tortoise
she'll combs. Worn in loosely waved
high coiffures Of the evening mode,
thrust in at almost piquant angles
they make an artistic adjunct to the
samrtest toilette and are often its
GROWING glory.
The long, graceful cape nantes OF
black satin, fringe edged, smack OF
the Spanish influence and a revival OF
those charming handpainted ivory
mounted Spanish fans is also at hand
TO be truly smart you must veal
something characteristic of sunny
Spain. So do slip on something Span
ish After Your morning tub. even /