Evening star., 1925-07-26
)an Clothes Must Be Either Ultra Feminine Or Ultra Masculine

nish your haircut, you cannot look
quite like your brother If you load
yourself with jewelry. Any and every
| sort of jewelry is in fashion, save
that which is dainty. We used to feel
that it was better to wear a small
really good stone than a large inferior
stone, and that to be found out wear
ing imitation bijoutery was almost as
bad as using cotton table linen. Now
the prejudice against imitation jewel
, ry seems to have disappeared almost
entirely with very many people. To
be sure they do put the ban on rhine
stone engagement rings and imitation
platinum wedding rings, but that is
about all. Every one has been wear
ing imitation pearls which must have
been very disconcerting to women
who had strings Of priceless real
pearls, because the imitation pearls In
many cases looked quite as good.
Just at present some women have
given up pearls. probably because they
have grown tired of them rather than,
| as some folks say, because the imita
ton pearl has brought discredit upon
the real sort
Any sort Of striking, exotic jewelry
is in order, providing, of course, It goes
well with the costume of which It is
to be part. Women take samples of
| their new frocks to the jewelry stores
nowadays and they scour the shops to
find new and unusual pieces that will
look right on certain frocks.
Whether you could call the very
| short skirt mannish fashion or not
would be difficult to say. Certainly
men or our own days, save those
who wear kits, are inclined to cover
their knees whenever they stir from
their own apartments, and at pres
ent they have heightened and broad
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low the knees. The more trivial
| women's skirts become the more
voluminous do mems trousers seem
to be. And there doesn't seem to be
anything that could be regarded as
valid omen for the return of longer
skirts. Occasionally one sees one of
the new bouffant skirts worn for
afternoon or evening that extends
well below the knees, but this Is
| obviously for picturesque effect. A
white tulle evening frock made with
| dropping shoulders, snug bodice and
distended hips and long f1ounced skirt
that almost touched the ground
proves to be not so demure as IT
seems. Beneath the flounces the
underslip comes just to the knees,
the nude stockinged legs showing
quite clearly behind the transparent
tulle.
TO wear with your pansy purple
frock you may like a pair OF the
new pansy-colored shoes. They are
made Of kid in opera cut with very
high heel and carry with them an air
of Paris chic, despite the fact that
they are made in the United States.
Oh @-g.
shoes nowadays. and of course you
know that these shoes with a long
name are not alike on both. sides.
The strap arrangement lacks the
usual symmetry. OF course this is
not quite new, though the effect is
that of a novelty. The old-fashioned
button high shoes were, for that
matter, quite assymetric.
There seems TO be less difference In
the yamp of French shoes and Ameri-
can shoes now than there was.
While undoubtedly the shoes of
France are made with shorter vamp.
better to suit the shape of the average
French foot, they frequently have the
effect of considerable length. 1t is
no longer difficult in this country to
find what the shoemakers call a modi-
fed short vamp, with a fairly rounded
toe. The detail that marks the
French shoe still more than any
thing else is the heel. Parisians like
their heels not only very high but
very small at the base. They are
mere spikes TO stand upon. For those
who want to follow very closely in the
lead Of the French fashion capital
there are American-made spike-heel
nous popularity here-and they are
shoes, but they have not gained enor-
not very comfortable.
Copyright. 1o25.)