The Bolivar County Democrat., 1922-09-16

Sleeve of Lace Cut in Circular Piece
(Top), Having Turned-Back Cuff Of
White More. Below: White Puffed
Chiffon, Fur Cuff and Cuff of PIait-
ed Organdie, Black Velvet Wrist
band.
of the family. We know now that I'M
less we pay special attention to that
portion of our costume we are lost as
far as style is concerned. And we
have realized the fact that beautiful
sleeves can make a gown as no other
detail can.
A trifle of experimentation will show
that the design of ones sleeves can be
carried into the line of the gown in
such way that the sleeves become
and remain the actual center of at
traction and STYLE And now that we
have the sanction of Paris for going
ahead with our sleeve achievements,
we should manage to do some ex-
traordinarily lovely things during the
coming season. We have spent a sea-
son in experimentation, as it were;And
now, after our months of education,
we are launched upon a career Of ac-
tual artistic accomplishment.
The style declaration that there is
no trimming can be accepted and be-
lieved until we consider the sleeves Of
the day. For all the decoration that
once was spread over a far broader
surface has now been concentrated
within the area of the sleeve. We find
there not a mere suggestion Of trim
ming, but an actual mass Of it. The
fact Is that often the sleeve is nothing
but trimming, and so greedy is 1t Of
the place 1t has come to hold that 1t
succeeds in preventing decoration in
any other place. We find embroidered
sleeves, brocaded sleeves, lattice
worked sleeves, puffed sleeves, plain
sleeves. In fact, there is no end to the
surprises that are sprung upon us at
every turn of fashions way.
Now there are certain questions
about sleeves which might as well be
settled at once. First, sleeves will be
long. They will still be full, though
not quite so extraordinarily so as they
have been. Some of them will be fit
ted, even from the elbow to the wrist.
In evening dresses there will still be
only suggestions of sleeves or indica-
tons that sleeves might be there in
that particular space if the thing had
so happened. For coats and capes
there will be those voluminous crosses
hot cIo nd ich Ia
the wraps look as spacious and COM
Portable as can be. All of these things
will be so, and then there will be so
many exceptions that the rules will
seem utterly superfluous.
Some of the Newer Sleeves.
A study of some of the newer
sleeves is a good approach to the fall
costumes, for, as has been said, they
will set the pace. And, If ones f0un-
dation fashion knowledge has much to
do with sleeves, then the path to gen
eral smartness of attire will be sim
pie one indeed.
Among three interesting types of
sleeves one is made Of strips of beau
tifully brocaded ribbon. The design Is
Egyptian, and the colors are all those
gorgeous dull ones that designate that
period. The color of the gown is dull
blue and the material is one of those
soft and pliable silk crepes so fash
ionable just now. Then the ribbon
with its dark yellow, green, red and
golden tones is applied in long bands
on the sleeves ending at the elbow,
and the sleeve is faced with dull red
silk to match that cOloring in the
woven ribbon.
There are any number Of ways of
using ribbons in these newer and more
elaborate sleeves. They fairly blossom
forth in this particular, for all the in
tensely colored ribbons and all those
with metal threads and brilliant de-
signs can, in some way, be worked In
to the design of gown so that this
sort of trimming will look like some
intrIcately executed placement of en-
broidery.
One designer has used many rows of
that narrow-patterned grosgrain ribbon
to form a band on the end of full