Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06

new gowns, with equal success, mean
more than an idle within on the part
OF the designers who rule the des-
unfes OF our wardrobes and, by the
same token. our finances?
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The American dressmakers say
that Lanvin launched ribbon evening
frocks in order to use up the vast
quantities Of manufactured ribbon
which have pyramided through neg
ligence Of the public. Never have
ribbons been more lovingly woven.
They are expensive-that's the rea-
son for their surplus today. Women
have hesitated to buy an accessory
at a huge price when they could get
material by the yard without paying
more.
When the economist snatches at
the idea Of building quantity of
ribbon frocks at a small outlay she
is reckoning without the cost. One
hour at a ribbon counter will send
her away wiser. The dressmakers
have no hesitancy in using these
do not want to lower the price of
their gowns. but the home Dress
maker will think thrice and then
not act
And such ribbons as are chosen to
build these new ta6eta frocks that
dciality. build up new curves.
They are as colorful as the Pharaohs
would have liked. They have the
glory that is ancient Chinese. They
are heavily designed in flowers. in
stripes. with the former given the
unlike much of the tafeta by the
yard, but as they are a bit more SEN
sational, they are launched in the
extreme types Of the approaching
fashion.
They accentuate the wide effort to
displace plain materials with lowered
ones upon which The conservative
look with a wary eye. And well they
may. The looms seem to have thrown
themselves into a fervor of ecstasy
in creating figurattons for women to
bear upon their bodies. The shops cry
people-and that includes some Of the
smartest houses-push forward the
Powered fabrics to all Corners. It is
not difficult to foreteli WEAKNESS be-
fore the season Is well advanced, be-
cause numbers Of women viii buy
such clothes in abundance because
they are the style"
Wolfe. georgette. silks, cottons, even
/ linen bear the impress OF the colored
stamp. When plain fabrics are used
they are bordered. faced or lined with
something figured. When q patchwork
quilt can be used for a straight sport
coat without criticism. only approval
then the day Of hguration 10 surely
here. True. the work on the quilt is
that Of an artist and tho co1ors and
design are as satisfying as those on
an ancient vase-but the fact remains
that a Quilt is quilt.
And that Is not the end OF outfit
usage: there's a sport skirt bufN OF q
white Marsei1les spread that carries a
gay and ornamental Jacket, and the
effect is not one to cause laughter
And furthermore. there's q silk blan-
Ret in broad, subdued p1aids made
| into q loose straight sport jacket to
be worn with an orange lined skirt
at Coronado Beach.
Ono might write q day on the "a
rious methods by which aGurationa
are obtained on plain matertals 70
bring them into tho picture. Ono OF
the new Paris gowns shows q lavish
| use OF . new kind Of bead. ono made
| OF cotton. q kind Of French knot. Al
| the embroiderers call It. It is quite
solid. completely round and without
| These cotton beads cover the surface
Of crepe de chino frocks that carry theil
own full capes hanging from q yoke col.
lar which straightens them out at the
| shoulders. They are more frequently
| used in white than in color.
Other French frocks show ingsnioul
and liberal dguEatons made Of dnl
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