The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-02-24

fashion correspondent in the New
York Times, during snow storm to
be thinking and writing about sum-
mer clothes and fashions. Still that
is the way styles have of forcing them
selves upon the public gaze. The
shops are full of summer things, The
salesgirls have begun TO think and
to sell straw hats and organdle dress
es. SO what can poor season do,
| except to snow as though to insist that
II must have its fling
At any rate the warmer weather
that will some day come promises many
things in the way of lovely frocks
which now many people are buying to
take along 20 southern climes. A sur
Vey Of them must of necessity reveal
10 us the salient features of what will
ne the popular new frocks for spring,
and as designs which perfect an ex.
tstinC silhouette they make us wonder
at the enlinrnce they have achieved.
Paris sends us by far the prettiest
a the real summary frocks They are
respondent with handwork which Is
nH 81 all lavish or ornate in its ap-
pearance. II is intricate and beautiful
aud carefully done by the cleverest
fingers in all the world. Ii is Just a
matter Of pulling the threads and then
working in drawn work stitches-or
q winding folded strips of the frock's
material into medallions and insertions
that Trim the froCks most cleverly. In
other words, they are making the
trimmings in their own hands and.
when they condeScend to use lace in
any way, it is only in the narrowest
varieties of heavy and light weight
chiffonS with cotton voiles 10 make an.
other sort of frock. There are plenty
Of taffetas used in the afternoon gowns
for the younger and for the older wO-
men.
Organizes in Evidence.
Fascinating summer frocks, now
vending their southwark ways, have
come from Paris to deck the forms of |
American women. They exhibit the
handlcraft of an older civilization
which the women here are privileged
to carry off.
The strips of Organdie used to make |
those medallion patterns are folded |
and pressed into place. Organdie has |
a delightful way, you know, of stay
ing where it is put-that is, in this |
one particular. Then these strips are |
taken in the hand and shaped into pat
terms, which are held in place by a
spider-web sort of an arrangement of
stitches. And, of course, it takes the
French women to vary the idea. and |
elaborate upon 1t, until we have so
vast flood of handmade frocks that
our breaths are taken away by the
composite beauty of them all.
There Is one Organdie frock in a
rose pink (and, oh, what tOlors they
do have IN this market-they are
growing more vivid every day. with
rounded medalliOns sewed around the
skirt as sort of midway border.
Then, encircling the edges of these
medallions are attached double rows
of petals, ovally shaped and picoted
on their edges. They succeed in max
ing large roses for decorations. How
clever the designer has proved him
self in this instance, He knew that
organdie must curl from its very ma
ture-that 1t could do nothing else, in
all sincerity. So he has said to him
self, "Oh. very well, will place you
in position where your chief charac-
terstic will be your brightest charm"
And so the organdie has curled to its
hearts content ana in just the way Il
wished to curl-to make flower as
n decoration never before thought of
for a dress of this sort.
New and Inspiring Creations.
There Is no end to the intricaCies
which these placements of handwork
achieve on the Organdie gowns. And
they are repeated on taffetas. and on