The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-30
Little Touches
Add to Clothes

world apparently are putting forth ev-
cry effort to work. out new ideas in
arm covering. During the long time
that arms were left wholly or partially
uncovered each dressmaker apparently
had hidden away in the recesses Of his
or her mind an infinite number of
ideas on this subject, which grew to
immense proportions through suppress
sion.
Novelty in Fringe Sleeve.
Now we have sleeves Of the Man.
DARN type, sleeves that are slightly
flowing and have In turn wide, flowing
cuffs, straight, loose sleeves of bright
color set into somber-hued frocks, 9TH
ers that fit to deep armhole and fall
away from the arm, leaving it bare,
and that are caught in again at the
wrist. But more striking than any of
these are the long sleeves of fringe
which Patou has brought out. These
take their place in the novelty class.
but are interesting as one of the many
strange things being done to this part
of dress.
The Parisienne is tying her sash in
new way: that is, wrapping it
around her body, giving it a twist at
either side by slipping the ends through
the belt and bringing them back to be
fastened in loose knot in the front.
Nothing very novel about this, you
will think, but it Is really a pleasing
change from the monotony of the way
women have been tying string belts or
wide sashes.
1t must be said that in simple mat
ter such as this very little originality
has been shown. 1t would seem that
hundreds of different ways of knot
ting a sash might have been thought
of. In countries where the sash al
ways has played an important part in
native dress the way in which it is
tied is significant of many things
Writing of high collars is about as
discouraging as designing them. Dur
ing the last two years much time has
been spent on both. Still, nobody has
taken to high collars with any amount
of enthusiasm; in fact, they rarely are
seen.
But collars of the type referred to
and which are somewhat of a COM
promise between the high and low col
lar, have been in evidence of late.
Sometimes the turnover part is much
more exaggerated, like a wide Elton
collar. These are quite becoming and
are likely to enjoy considerable popu-
larity among the younger women.
Contemplation of collars in general
gives one a feeling of surprise that
there has not been more change. Wom-
en- must consider the monotOnouS
neckline so long in evidence very be-
coming, otherwise they would have &C
cepted some of the many things offered
them. 1t would seem that the time
is about ripe for some changes in this
direction.
Fringes Of self material are featured
prominently on many of the autumn
clothes. Both cloth and crepe frocks
have a novel fringe trimming achieved
by running rows of hemstitching along
cascading panels, the sleeves, or even
the bottom of the skirts, and slashing
the hemstitching to form fringe, which,
of course, leaves a picot edge on each
strand of the material. Such treat
ment is used on the French dress.
1t seems impossible to get away from
fringe in one form or another. All of
the great dressmakers still are using
it. A model from Doeuillet has fringe ap-
piled to back tunic and tuft of it
on the short ends Of belt knotted in
the front.
On this model we see another form
of trimming which sprang into prom
inence this summer; that is the en-
broidery pattern made by perforations.
AS in most perforated cloths, bright,
contrasting lining is used. Here the
dress is of black and the lining re-
vealed through the large eyelets is
bright red.