Evening star., 1932-08-28
Fashions in Furs and Fabrics
Cotton Washable
Materials Gaining
Continental Favor
BY SYLvESTRE DORIAN,

Director of the Paris Fashion Service.
The uriters OF the Paris Fashion
Service, tDho rotate as contributors
TO this series Of articles, are the fol-
1oUfng: Agnes BoulGnger, ChdntdI,
Chdnlcon1n1unGl, Cteruit, Doeuillet,
Dcacet, DrecoH, Jenny, LdnUfn. Le-
long, Martha Reginer, Jane Regny
sd Wormser.
PARIS. August 20.
TINE becomingness of cotton fabrics
for young people and fer youth
full fashions has always been
Il recognized, but it took the de-
preston to bring about the fresh
aspect the mode has received from the
use Of these cheaper materials for older
and more formal styles. These are now
seen everywhere, treated in any number
of amazing ways, and the hotter the
weather gets the more they become
prevalent.
Not only all kinds of cotton, but
linen materials are used for evening
gowns. Bingham evening dresses have
been seen during the past week in Paris,
Deauville and Biarritz in fashionable
dance halls, private social functions,
casinos and smart restaurants. Flow
cred and plain linen and pique in white
and pastel shades are shown in almost
tailored styles with full-flared skirts,
and these are frequently finished of
with garland or shoulder straps Of
flowers
These flowers may be harmonizing
or contrasting Sometimes they are the
same colcr as the flowers in the design
and may even be made out of the same
fabric as the dress, therefore identical
This style is also realized effectively IL
fine muslins, with contrasting pin-spot
or larger dots and in voileS and cotton
crepes.
Sports suits are seen in uncrushable
linen tweeds that resemble sailcloth
These are sometimes plainly tailored,
sometimes belted, and have wide pleats
like Norfolk jackets. Accompanying
them are jumpers of fine Isle or Irish
thread finished with polo collars, zephyr
shirts with close-fitting collars and mar
row ties, or plain or fancy gingham or
cambria blouses. Soft plain colors suit
these oarse-grained linens best. This
is a mode that could not have come into
being without the hard times that made
practical, money-Saving stylewave
imperative, but the result, feared by
many of the couturiers at first, has been
eminently successful, and now they are
swearing cotton and linen will never be
allowed to return to hiding, even If the
greatest height Of international prosper
ity returns.
60 the depression is to be thanked for
~ something. The re-animation of the
mode brought about by the limitless ex-
panse of gay cottons, merry muslins,
cheerful cambrics and light hearted
linens, that stretch out like veritable
sea before the present-day fashion OBJ
server in Paris and the other centers
Of continental gayety and smartness,
came forth to solve the problem of the
designers who found themselves obliged
to make women charming cheaply.
White, in which these fabrics are
seen to best advantage, is at its high
water mark of popularity. Most of the
dresses are pure white, and white coats
are by no means scarce, though the
coat is often in gingham Of a checked,
striped or plaid design; short ones
worn with the dresses usually and
longer topcoats with the suits White,
low-heeled shoes in leather and fabrics
are seen a-plenty, and white bags in all
manner Of materials-linen, pique, can
vas, leather, washable whipcord and
dotted cotton.
The suits and dresses are often en-
broidered with monogram In gay, con-
trasting color, or if not on the dress or
suit you will see it on the bag, scarf,
shirt or in an unexpected place on a
sleeve.
\
THE Norman type introduced by
M. d'AhetZe is the most distin-
guished. 1t is new, but novelty is not
its only charm; it is beautiful as well,
the letters are so clear-cut they sug-
gest having been cut in steel; there are
no capitals and they are often en-
broidered In various colors so that no
two letters In a name will be of the
same shade.
This little embroidered detail Is Just
the right finishing touch for dresses
and suits of this washable type, on
which more trimming would often seem
euperhuous; still, this note redeens them
from utter plainness. If the monogram
is not desired there are other ways of
introducing this embroidered note.
(Copyright, 1892