The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-09-01
White Serge Dress Trimmed With
Red and Black Leather.

Of this sort never, in their most san
guine moments, dreamed that they
would be adopted in such a world
wide way, declares q fashion writer ip
the New York Tribune.
Paris Is competing with London and
New York in the making of the smart
est and most appealing styles in out
door clothes. When any type Of dress
is exploited from all sides it always
means that if the models are pretty
and becoming a certain number Of
women will wear them with little
sense of fitness. That is, a so-called
pastime hat may be worn with a gown
% which it is enti. ely unsuited. This
is also true of shoes.
We have cut adrlft from the old
standards which governed the selec-
ton Of footwear. The final blow was
dealt with the wholesale adoption of
| patent leather for low-hecled walking
shoes. With the flooding Of the mar
ket with many excellent ideas in dress
at one time there always q mis-
application of the best of them.
Both sweaters and dresses are made
in two or more contrasting cOlors
that is, Of silk or OOi in q plain cOlo-
patterned in high relief.
Among the prettieSt Of the sweaters
are those in lavender brotaded in blue.
A new model in these shades which
closes down the front like the very
Old-fashiOned coat sweater is long,
coming almost to the knees, and has
long sleeves which flare at the bot
tom. There is Il high collar button
ing up about the neck. Tie sweater
itself is lavender and around the bot
tom and on the sleeves and the collar
are squares knitted in blue. 1t is
bloused by means of an elastic band
placed low on the inside.
White Flannel and SERGE.
y great demand for any particular
type Of dress is q wonderful inSpira-
ton to designers and manufacturers
and an incentive to do their best in
that particular line. While there is
the greatest diversity Of color in the
outing costume, here as everywhere
else, q few cOlOrs become the extreme
of fashion. III the plain shades
brown, gray and white are ~fav0rite,
while in the brighter hues there are
unusual shades of cerise, purple, vel
low and red. Emphasis is placed on
yellow and black used in unison.
a complete reaction from black in
daytime clothes is manifesting itself
in the other extreme, white, for street
wear, particularly white with color.
And on this wave comes white flannel
as well as white serge Of an extremely
soft and fine texture wOven in part
of camel's hair, which, mixed with tn,
wool, gives a marvellous effect. The
kasha serge of ROdier is of this char.
acter.
Jeanne Lanvin las been responsible
largely Tor this movement to white
serge and flannel with trimmings of
embroidery in high %colors, a trimming
which she always has favored and in
which she ever HIS exceIled. One OF
her best models is in white serge en-
broidered in n brilliant Chinese red
with little flakes Of black rs a relief.
Another interesting model Of white
scrgc is of simple design with slim
panels on the bodice and on the skirt.
This frOck is embroidered in red and
black in a Jugo-Slav pattern. A great
many Of Lanvin's embrOideries are in
Russian and Jugo-Slav designs. There
are charming frOcks of white serge
done with bead ~enSbroiderics in high
colors after Russian motifs. Very
often such frocks are in coat STYLES
with the Russian bodice crossing.
English women long have recog-