The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-06-16

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ever has been reputed to be extreme
ly caprlclous. Makers Of fashions, OBJ
serves an authority on Styles are
obliged to offer their ideas and their
wares many times over and in
various gulses In order to gain ia
vor with q capricious public.
Take, for instance, fringes and rib
bons. They have been subtly and
cleverly offered In dozens of different
ways over a period of two or three
years, during which time they have
met with but Indifferent favor. Now
they are shown In the most ostenta-
tiOus way. Dresses bristle with
lunches and cockades OF ribbons ar
tistlcally and inartistlcally employed.
In many instances art Is abandoned
In the effort to pile on quantities Of
this trimming. The same Is true Of
fringes.
Perhaps the liking for these modes
Of trimming so violently evinced at
the present time has been Of slower
growth than appears upon first
thought. Tastes are slowly devel-
oped In dress as In other things For
a long time artists and designers
worked with Spanish effects and slow
ly the Spanish influences In dress
came about. Fringes are distinctly
Spanish.
Fringe on 6Iouses and Dresses.
Attention has been gained for fringe
through the vast quantities OF II used.
II would have to make Its appeal In
some such way as this, as II does not
lend Itself to variety Of modes Of
application as does ribbon.
Gabrielle Chanel, Of Paris, is a max
er who is a stanch advocate of fringe,
and is anything but niggardly in It's
use. She makes charming frock Of
gray crepe de chlne-a silk which Is
still her favorite-and trims the skirt
with three rows of wide gray fringe.
The front of the bodice supports two
narrow rows OF matching fringe, and
the neck and sleeves are finished with
fringe OF the same width. The treat.
ment Of the back Of the bodice is
quite different. Here wide fringe is
used to give the effect OF u deep cape
collar made of these twisted sllken
thrends.
Fringes are quite as much In evil
dence on blouses as on dresses,
wraps and hats. An example Of a
fringe-trimmed blouse In appearance is
somewhat complicated, but In reality
II Is not, being nothing more than a
Spanish shawl slightly draped TO the
figure. To a famous French dress
maker well versed In the art Of sim
pie drapery we are indebted for this
model.
The plain crepe de chine wrap
trimmed with fringe or ribbon this
year vies with the summer furs OF
other seasons. II Is a welcome change
and, II must be admitted, much more
sensible for a midsummer day than n
wrap or scarf OF fur, which, for some
unexplainnble reason, has held a place
not only In the sun of fashion but In
the hot, blazing sun of summer for
longer time than there was any rea-
son for Its so doing.
Very lovely are the fringe-trImmed
hats Taifeta or crepe de chine mod
els are made with softly-draped rath-
err high crowns and dropping brlms, the
latter supporting irregular tiers OF
fringe. There is simple elegance
to such hat which could never be
attained In ribbon-trimmed model.
Reams have been written on rIb.
bons, and from all indications much
perfectly good white paper has vet
to be consumed before the subject is
exhausted. Even ribbon mnnufactur-
ers themselves thought last year that
they were at the height Of their power
as persons who made one Of the real
essential things required by the mod.