Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-21
MILADY'S WARDROBE
Her Flnery Furnished From Forest,
Field and Sea. I:
BEASTS, FLOWERS, FISHES Contribute

The Geography Of Woman's Dress Ex.
tends Over the Whole Earth and
Down Into the Waters Under the
Earth.
With the gradual return of pre-
war conditions man lays aside. his un-
form aid dons his patent leather
pumps and high hat to accompany
the companion of his softer moods to
the opera. She, contrariwise to that
policy of nature for decking the male
in brilliancy of coloring and plumage,
tricks herself out after fashion
which makes the sobriety of his white
bosom and black coat only back
ground for her gorgeousness.
woman has called on land and sea,
the birds of the air and the subter-
ranean channels Of the earth to yield
up their treasures for her adorn-
ment." says bulletin from the Nat
ional Geographic Society.
"As she lazily invites attention
with the gaily-colored ostrich fan
which she moves across the line Of
vision, she is indeed an exotic thing Of
admiration and generosity's making.
Powerful birds on a farm in South
Africa 2. .obably had their tail and
wing feathers plucked and a masnf-
fcent beast of the jungle in India
or the Belgian Congo snorted in rage
and pain when he gave his life that
his tusks might make the slender
ivory handle to support the feathers.
Of that bauble.
Hundred Animals Required For One
Fur Wrap =:
"Carelessly tossed aside in the
warmth and light of the theatre lies
the lustrous sable wrap. The hundred
or more of little 1S-inch dark brown
animals required to make this coat
tempted trappers into difficult and
dangerous enterprises on the frozen
areas Of northern Russia and Siberia.
The fragrance that intrigues your
senses is probably the distilled petals
of roses grown in the fertile valleys
VI DulSdl - Silll1lll1h
tung shed his queue to furnish the
material for the net that holds the
coiffure in unblemished continuous un-
dulations, and smelly stockyard of
Kansas City or Chicago. gave its re-
fuse heap that unobtrusive bone hair |
pins might hold the smooth coils In
place. The slow and sure tortoise
furnished the only beautifully carved
ornament of her hair.
1.-The ropes Of cleaning white pearls
that caress her throat were probably
gouged from the hearts of the huge
thick -shelled oysters Of the South Sea,
Australia, Philippines and Burma or
from the small -shelled ones Of
Venezuela, Japan, Persia, and Ceylon.
The platinum for the clasp came from
Colombia and the 2dlamonds which
stud it may have been taken from the
dark interiors of subterranean depths
in Brazil or South Africa, to be polish
ed by diamond cutters in Antwerp,
Amsterdam or Bruges. Thee tiny.
jewelled watch on her wrist. kept
probably to prove to its weares that
time is no object in her world, had
the ITS pieces in it's tiny 'insides' made
by Swiss workman whose skill was
so great that he made no mistakes
in fitting in screws which to the un-
practiced eye resemble dust particles.
Looms of Lyons Do Their Part
1.-The soft lustrous silk Of her
Paquin-made gown acquired its SHIN
mer in the looms Of Lyons, France.
which prepares about one-third Of all
the raw silk produced in or brought to
Europe. The lace with which the
artist -modiste varied the fabric prob:
ably grew under the hands of diligent
peasant women in the Vosges Mouns
tains, or in the cellars of a rain
soaked Belgian dwelling. =.
THE silver buckles on her pumps
were hammered by an artisan from
raw material CLEANED from the mines
OF our own Rocky Mountains or Great
Basin States, or from Mexico, which
!Ui YEARS pIOQQCeO ltldn d
third of the worlds output. But the
pumps, most likely, were made in
Massachusetts and the silk stockings
in Wisconsin.
Nun in Switzerland Worked on Hand
kerchief
"Some little nun in the mountains
of Switzerland. far removed from such
IN atmosphere as that in which the
American lady of leisure basks, pa
tiently piled her needle to fashion the
exquisite design which adorns the
handkerchief whose fabric was grown
in the fields Of stormtorn Ireland.
Paris contributed the slender fingered
kid gloves and the fragrant powder,
and some specialized old fellow in pre-
war Germany probably carefully
ground the lenses for the opera glasses
which miiady casually levels at
Homer, Caruso or Tetrazzini."
Destroyed Nest of Snakes.-The light
np5 y>ou.ar foron ,,,oro OF Nv,