The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-17
SAYS PROHIBITION
AN AID TO FASHION
SPRING CLOTHES TO BE SUPER
LATIVELY ELEGANT. FEMI-
NINITY TO BE KEYNOTE.

NEW YORK.-What about the
dry styles this spring? Not lemon
ade sets, grape juice bowls, matted
milk decanters and similar objects OF
horror and gloom, which are bound
to be "taken up" by everybody. But
what fashion in frocks will come IN
with the first prohibition Easter that
New York has known in memory of
living man-and woman? Will wo-
men dress more sadly or more glad
"? Will the blight of Puritanism
hit the dressing table, as we'll as the
dining table? Or, since husbands
no longer can spend their money on
Stocking up" ("you know, my dear,
we can't get any MORE when this
is gomez, will their purses be loos-
ened for the Identification of their
better halves, with the result that
even more wonderful clothes will
be worn in New York than during
any other season?
THEY WILL-that we are promis-
ed by Milton Wolf, chairman of the
ways and means committee of the
National Garment Retailers associ-
alton. Wine is down and out, but
woman is to be lovelier than ever.
SuperIative Elegance Promised.
"Women's clothes this spring." the
urbane Mr.. Wolf assures US, will
O.. be more elegant than ever before
not more elaborate, but more ele-
CANT. The reason? Prohibition!
Women never wore their best clothes
to restaurants and cabarets. In this
atmosphere, with the smoke and
crowds and confusion, lovely dress
es were likely to suffer irreparable
damages. And on the crowded dane
ing floor of the public restaurant
gowns didn't have a chance. Their
good points could be missed too
easily.
''Now that home entertaining will
be the rule-for the obvious reason
that almost everyone at present has
something at home to entertain with
women will wear more beautiful
and elegant frocks than they have
chosen in years. The setting will
be perfect, and the wearer of love-
ly evening gown will know that ev-
cry other woman present Will be
able to study and analyze her cos
tune to its last fawless detail. So
this season of the year Fifth avenue
dressmakers are designing more ele-
CANT frocks than ever before.
Naturally l asked Mr.. Wolf in
what the species distinction consider
ed.
"In the material" he explained,
(which is either the richest and most
costly brocare or the loyeliest en-
broidered chiffon. The trimmings
are simple in appearance, but sim
gle artificial flower for the corsage
may cost 500. Flowers will be
worn a great deal. And the design
of the cloth by the dressmaker, will
a great deal of individual draping
of the cloth by the dressmazer, will
be exquisite.
Return of the Clinging Vine.
''The keynote of the spring fash
ions will be feminine charm and re-
fnement - dainty Womanlikeness.
Women are tired of being military
and athletic and severe. They want
to go back to the old, graceful, cling
ing models which men always pre-
ferred. Before the summer is over
women will be wearing white mus
lns. blue ribbons and hats covered
with flowers.
Gwen the silhoutte," he continued
''will emphasize the normal feminine
figure. 1t is not true, as one report
from Pars may have indicated, that
the waist will be drawn in, as in
nature, and there will be fullness
over the hips. The hipless, straight
up-and-down figure is not the natur
al one for woman, and the silhoutte
has to follow the natural lines this
yea.
"The most remarkable change will
be the widening of the skirt by al
lowing the fullness over the hips