The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-01
DRESS By ANNE RITTTENHOUSE
,yright ls1s by the Nc Cure Newspaper syndicate)

(Copyright. 1919. by the Me Curious Belts, Have Appeared for
 Coats and Frocks, Some of Which
 Are Made of Metal, Others of Elm
 broidery and Une That the Amcri-
 cans Have Named a RattieSnake
 Belt.
 Paris, September 2f.-If one sees q 'mannequin walking into long mir rored room. swirling and unduiatinS as only a mannequin can do, and one can take the eyes from her and fix them upon her costume. it is waste Of time to gasp at the idea that she twisted a Georgia rattlesnake around her waise.
 She has not done this thing. She is merely wearing a belt made to im!- tate a rattlesnake skin. It is made of coarse embroiders or of metallic threads. It is probably as ancient design as a jar of Peruvian pottery, but it gives the American shock. There is a sneaking suspicion on the part of those who are observing clothes that snake is really suggested. The likeness to a serpent is not accidental. In the savagery of the hour with its return to much that is ancient is customary. a dried snake skin wrapped about the waist fits into the picture.
 There is further evidence that the American Indian or his brothers have contributed other accessories to .he new clothes; there are several gowns at widely different houses that show stripes of brightly colored kid hanging from kid belt. There are other pieces tASt hang from the collar and these r11Ftefing bits of bright leather en- l!ver a sober blue serge gown for girl
 There are odd necklaces made of Iaiv fr, frfo piled to the necks. to the shoulders of dark duvetyn gowns and the neck iaces end in thick pendants of the leather.
 The manipulation of leather, of sueke-lilSe embroidery and of small pieces of metal in the belts are fea- small pieces of shinging leather ap- important to dismiss as merely de- tails
 The belts. for instance. have reached a high degree of perfection They are used by even the most conservative houses. like that of Worth. Small silken cords in bright colors will be run through thin medallions of jet or hammered copper or onyx surrounded with brass. White or pink kid will be perforated to prepare a foundation for belt. and it wifi be bound with fine copper metallic tissue and divided in the middle of front and back by itnKS or copper ana brown crystals.
 On short jackets the kind that are offered for girls. and also on blue serge frocks. are linked belts of red quartz and onyx. of embroidered or painted medallions
 Nothing ties in front or at the sides Everything buckles.
 There is a kid bel, which is lined and trimmed with copper tissues that ties in flat bow with ends. it is true, but all the metal and embroidered ones are invisibly fastened. There is solid metal belt which is used by two of the exclusive houses and which is E@yptian in it's origin. It is quite pli- able. is large enough to go arouni half of the waist and ends in two scrolls This belt is placed across the back of a day frock with the scrolls, coming just beyond the hips.
 When one wished to get color at the belt line by other means than using the pennants of colo red kid there ara brilliant Moroccan co ds in red, blue and yellow that are wound together, slipped under the front of a narrow patent leather belt and permitted to drop to the hem of t.ae skirt in front. There are wide patent leather belts of the kind that the Americans wore a year ago. which are attached to one of the leather with buttonholes.
 Whatever can be done to make belt conspicuous is done. The embroidery