The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-01-30

home on Monday from St Petersburg,
where they defeated the ST. Peters
burg girls in a splendid game there
Saturday night
Spring Fashions for the South
1t seems that the truly fashiona BILE
are making plans to go a bit further
south than usual this winter. Havana
will come in for share of the gay
visitors who each season travel ahead
of the thermometer if possible. This
year the thermometer travelled a bit
ahead of the throng and caught many
travellers this side of the normal lati-
tude.
Another thing it did was to aid
many in coming to a decision about
packing their trunks. The decision
was to pack the trunks as soon as
possible, and to go as far south as
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on Havana, because it is reported that
it will be particularly lively during the
coming season.
Now, Paris apparently had this in
mind when the midseason buyers
were there a few weeks ago, so that
the buyers brought back with them
some of the smartest, simplest and at
the same time the most typically
French frocks in the coolest and
sheerest materials possible. So cool
looking are these frocks that with the
frost on the window pane it makes
one shiver to look at them This may
not be exactly pleasant in this eli
mate, but think how delightful to
wear on some sultry day at some bon
ny southern beach.
Both the colors and the materials
of the imported frocks suggest wealth
er quite the reverse Of that in this
latitude. Organizes, voiles and chif-
fons make up the greater part of the
Paris collection. AS to colors they
are OF the sort that one would like
to eat Usually either contrasted
with white or all in one shade. Two
colors in one frock are seldom SEEN
Embroideries are not as much used
as formerly and draped skirts are al
most extinct as far as these dresses
are concerned. The one most strik-
ing note is the very general inclina-
ton to aprons and the use of ruffles
to simulate aprons. It seems proba-
BILE that the ruffles that we were
shown in the fall exhibitions are go.
ing to be taken up for the southern
and spring season, The ruffle is the
one cut rather wide say about four or
five inches, closely futed and running
from waistline to hem, double on
each side. standing like peplum at
the waistline and in lieu of a pannier
Sometimes the ruffles border the
aprons and sometimes are placed di-
rectly on the skirt. When the apron
effect is applied it is used double
that is, back and front of the skirt
are really composed of two aprons,
the space at the sides amounting to
very little. In one dress only a strip
about an inch wide is scanned into the
sides of straight skirt in order to
hold the two straight outstanding
fanges Of material These set into
the seams. and in Paris they call them
nageoire. or fish fins, because they
stand out in the same manner.
All of the frocks mentioned have
been in the palest of tints; frock
from an American designer is really
dashing beside these bits of fragile
French perfection. This dress is in
a more substantial material also. It
is white Shantung of that beautiful
quality that defes criticism, and the
trim patches of embroidery are in By
Zantine colorings, clear vermllion and
SKY blue combined with yell0Ws and
browns. An oblong patch of this en-
broidery is placed like a vest in the
front of the bodice and the opening is
slit through the center of this, piped
and fastened with buttons to match
the embroidery. Strips of this en-
broidery extend up the sides of the
skirt from the hem to the line of the
knees. The short sleeve has a like
finish.
Decidedly American in dash and
smartness although the general idea
may have been borrowed from Paris,
is another frock. The material is
in green and white candy
stripes and vest is simulated by ap-
piled stripes of pointed trimming like
rickrack. The same finish is applied
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