Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-18

Original as they are. the designers
Of modern dress find it necessary each
year to in some way bark back to the
costumes that have prevailed in some
bygone period, with the result that ev-
cry season sees the reincarnation OF
some former day garb. This year the
modulation comes from Spain, bringing
with it gorgeous galaxy OF full skirts,
feathery trimmings, flounces, laces,
beads. high combs and scarfs Of all
sorts.
Spanish fans there are also, Of feath-
ers, quilts, laces and painted fabrics.
Anything SO it is a fan, with which one
may coQuette her way exuberantly
through q long and boresome evening.
And they are not only graceful and or
namental, but in the last analysis they
serve big and noble purpose in the
life of her who must rack. her brain
for something to say when c0nversing
with those who do not interest her.
Fan Aids Poor nationalist.
For with fan at hand to toy with
she may hesitate and ponder and gaze
with intent interest at every line and
curve in it's makeup, apparently abb
sorbed by the wondrous construction
Of the thing, while her brain is work
ing overtime to think of something
appropriate to say. As an aid to the
poor conversationalist the fan has al
ways been a close runner-up of the
glove, which milady can always pretend
her hand while her mind is hard at it
to remember something that might be
OF interest to her hearer. The report
ID that the lace fan will be the very
latest and most accepted thing, and
that transparent fabric fans adorned
with painted scenes in brilliant colors
will also be rated as very good"
Not all of the new Spanish cos
tunes are faithful to type, however.
Some Of them verge away so that q
still hunt must be instituted to find
The Spanish trend. But again we see
the purest of Spanish costumes worn
with the ease and grace tina. in bygone
years would have served to charm a
ball fight.
Only Trace Of Period Style.
The best authorities on dress say
that any period style can at best only
show traces Of itself in the dressing Of
modern life. We can't hop around in
modern dances arrayed in floating
Spanish lincs-wed step on them. But
we can take an idea or two here and
there and convert it to our own uses
in building up a style which is wholly
adaptable to our own life. Put a pom
pom here, flounce there, and flashy
beadwork design over yonder, and in
this way we can build into modern
dress a reflection of the Spanish period
which is at present going through
modern Renaissance. Now and again,
when occasion permits, someone wears
really Spanish creation, made for her
particular type. and having so much
of that old world atmosphere and feel
ing in its makeup that it seems to have
been waiting all these years for this its,
heydey.
There is a report that they are re-
wing the old time waltz at Bar Har-
bour Perhaps they are doing it to fit
in with all the flouncey and dashing
costumes that the modern generation
will affect during the winter of 1921
p. For the fact remains that with
head laden with high back combs, a
gown cut in such way as to hamper
and hinder her from rapid movements,
the modern woman must necessarily
eschew for the nonce at least the al
most hoidenish dance steps through
years.
Skirts Are Full.
Now as to the construction of the
Spanish gowns that will be worn on
formal occasions. Velvets and bro
cades, taffetas and failles, and other
stuffs which Of old were used for the
formal gown in Spain, will once more
come into their own. The skirts are
as full rs can be, with tight rows Of
fullness massed at the waistline, above
which the bodice rises trim and snug.
Flares over the hips are used extern
sively. Sometimes the flounces at the