Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-11

and Signify FITTED.
They could no be used by the hardy
business woman when pattering about
the streets-and this chiefly because
their peculiarly soft and flowing lines
would not adapt themselves to ordi-
nary wear and tear.
See all the gowns that the American
designers are making for daytime
wear. They will astonish you by the
beauty and simplicity which are their
alluring characteristics. Do not think
that they take little material. They are
draped and folded so ~miraculously
that one fails to see where all the
long plicatures are hidden. One plat
is piled upon another, and altogether
they are drawn into drapings and
folds conveying the impression they
represent one plain and simple line.
Upon examination, one finds that lay
ers upon layers make up this effect,
and accomplished in so artistic and
wotkmanlike a manner that, for the
magic of necromancers, it has any
previous SlelSnl-Ol-lldlu lllCA N1pCQ
off the map.
For the coming season the American
woman has chosen to be chiffony and
Sinking in her general appearance,
and anyone who follows this general
rule will not be going far astray. If
she cannot afford furs, the loveliest Of
wraps have been designed for her
outside covering. There are capes and
beautiful coats with wide and flow
ing sleeves that cannot be distin-
guished from wraps, luxuriously inter-
lined, and the visible Innings are
things to c~onjure with, so colorful and
soft are they. A wrap lining this year
is a thing to be studied with rever-
ence, it being no simple matter, but
a combination of silk and chiffon, and
gilt edgings, and bits of lace-any-
thing that will add to an ensemble to
make that wrap look as though it
were designed to snuggle around the
shoulders of a fairy princess. The
colors and the materials vie with each
other in adding a modicum of charm.
For street and restaurant e there
are tints Of dust, and sand, and taupe,
and dark gray, and putty color and
any of those tones, W. unto ele-
plants breath, which defy description
as to just what shades go to make
them distinguished. They are back
grounds of beauty, so to speak, rather
than adornments of that same fem
mime characteristic.
Brocaded silks Are In Favor.
Brocaded silks are making the great
est hit with dressmakers designing
new frocks. They are all in one tone,
the figure being woven in satin
threads, while the background is de
vised from less lustrous strands. Or
the idea can be reversed the material
turned the wrong side and you have
a material that has a satin background
with its pattern woven in crepe
threads. The advantage of this ma
terial Is that it is all silk, and is
possessed of the greatest amount of
weight, which, for these newer dresses,
is a really necessary attribute. They
must cling, while plenteously full
and, added to all this, they must pre-
sent the appearance Of being quite
straight-lined In character. If ysu
consider, this Is not a small order, bat
one that is being accomplished by our
leading designers In a manner truly
beautiful and greatly to be honored
for the art that fashions 1t.
The chemise dress has evolved, and
is now a long-waisted affair, or some
times, bo it known, an extremely
short-waisted affair. according to the
figure Of the wearer, and is made or
ample lines. It has full sleeves In,
stead Of little, scanty tight ones, ant
is in every way a much more volum
nous affair than 1t was q year ago