The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-24
There are Plenty 20 Make You Happy
But None to Make You Blue, the
lnquirins Reporter Decides
After Seeing.
SKIRTS ARE SHORTER
Sleeves are Also Being Worn Only to
the ElhovLcolors Of All Kinds
and Prices are Not
Low.

.-Oh. boy, amt il grand and
glorious feelin'" to go shopping down
town on Main street these days with
the stores SO full of lovely spring
things to wear? It's tough TO be poor.
and clothes are high. no one has
nerve enough to say they are not.
but even IL one is almost as poor as
/ the proverbial Jobs turkey and
| prices are up IN the sky, it's great to
I. Just be liyin' and to go shopping
lin keokuk for the styles. for the
flair sex, are better than ever.
| It's early enough now for suits to
be the most popular thing. and they
come in several pretty coIors, navy
blue as always, being especially gooi.
There are styles that make YOU
happy. and none OF EN- that maze
you blue. The skirts are less than
two yards in width and-shorter II
you want TO be really smart, but
zone can chose her own length"
clerk said this morning in speaking
/ OF them. 4he suit coats are not very
long Some of them have vests, and
many OF the most chic blouse with
that "etonic effect" (you know whar
/ is meant, Agnes). Tricotine and sill
Ivertones continue to be fashionable
materials for the suits, while polo
cloth and jersey are playing leads
with the sport coats which are par
i ticularly good now.
Sleeves are to Be Short. l
ORe-piece gowns of taffeta. geor
gette, and the foulards in a half
dozen colors, more or less, are at
tracing plenty of attention. Like
! the suit skirts, they are not too wide
and plenty short The sleeves only
reach the elbow, being perhaps the
! most marked changes made in TIE
spring styles, in the gowns.
/ Separate skirts of fantasi silk,
kumsi kumsa and plaids are visions
/ of delight and summary to the nth
color found in Joseph's coat of days
gone by. Tricolet blouses with the
short sleeves add another innovation
most wonderful bit of toggery is
tricolet sport coat seen in one of the
local stores today 1t is tan AMI
I trimmed in large collar and cuffs Of
angora wool. 1t looks like an even
million, but it costs little less. One
feminine customer admiring it, timii-
ly asked the price in the following
manner: TITS beautiful, but it most
cost fifty dollars?"
"Oh, no indeed, it is really quite
reasonable. 1t is marked-let me see
yes. forty-nine dollars and forty
nine cents" was the none too en-
couraging reply.
And summer frocks of voiles, or
CANDIES and ginghams must not be
forgotten in the catalog of summer
clothes. They are here-dainty and
petite as in former times and hard
to pass by If one stops to gaze upon
them for minute.
Hats and Boots to Match.
But milady must have appropriate
hats and boots to wear with her new
frocks, and even handkerchiefs to
match them. or the latter, there are
many of them not real linen Of |
course, but bright and pretty AS for !
hats, at present they, too, come in i
several shapes and sizes, the small !
ones being most often seen in the
early spring, but the warm days /
which are soon to come, and the mid. /
summer frocks will usher in the cele. /
brated picture hats with their large. {
sometimes foppy and sometimes !,
transparent brims. +
Oxords and pumps, black, brown /
and white, will continue to be worn
this summer. High heels will attract I
a lot of the girls, while many more !.
will choose the lower military heels /
and there will be plenty of both kinds I
to make selections from. There was /,
a tendency in the cities toward mar |.
row French toes this spring, but they +
proved too uncomfortable TO be +
popular and their reception generally !:
1s not expected to be very marked. Il
one local shoe man has promised, /;
The style is alleged" to have been i
brought over to the United States BY I
some OF the French brides who came i
here with their American husbands. Il
the shoe man said /,