What Well-Dressed Women Will Wear by ANNE Rlttenhouse
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What Well-Dressed Women Will Wear by ANNE RlTTENHOUSE Cultivate Taste and Knowledge in Dress If You Would Be Individual The .«American woman should do that, so she may buy wisely and well.Let her study her own style through the history of clothing and through art, in order that her individuality may be shown.Paris leads the way into history for the choice of the newfashions.Revivalof the polonaise.Mediaeval styles still rule, but many evening gowns will be in Empire style, picturesque, but rather scanty r hemme the arbiters of our own «.artorial fa' the fighters oLthe Voeget and the Alpine passes The war in Prance has abolished leadership have a comradeship. The rakish Continental MODIFIED certain fashions by their acceptance in t hat wac included in the fashions because the highest circles of power, and, with our drei land nf that George Washington whom '¡encrai CONTINENT makers and shops somewhat puzrled as to wh Lafayette came to assist is spreading her sol¬ will lead and what will not, we ha\e the be diers over the pleasant valleyt 0Í the sister re the AL HAT chance of our career to suit ourselve«. public and sending her huge guns to protect of as all and true, Black velvet with This will be really the millennium in dret Road Ladlet gentlemen, good bunch of colored Paris, the centre of art in the world, rreat should do. a«: at '1 ho crown and the rollicking brim ..o»e« »t the »idc. from a point In air, the engineers say, pinched-in of she sends weahooT hunt been included in the most, fashionable hat", a» ilring» of velvet. from the mass material thousand different, types of costumes if we «rie because these soldiers have been smiled at and, Look a bit, into the history of each costume, some -ay, kissed by, the midinette- as they Paris die«;, and say to yourself, doe» my fa ¦¡rolled the boulevards at noon hour. Why try and figure, my physical and mortal individuals t«> outline the conglomeration of episodes that reflect that period? If the an«.wer il in tl are reflecte.) in these autumn clothes that we negative, don't let any one persuade you will soon be asked to buy and mould to our in¬ buy i*. dividuality? France has put the pns-mg pano The of Type rama of the planet, into MOtumery. If we Importance it all, we shall lcx>k like a procession of not of tl adopt "Know thyself" was written only the apes staged by some Gargantuan stage di¬ to rlothes. grc, spirit; it can be applied No rector. It is our part, in this procession that i« of Siamese-twin mi designer is ignorant the4 of vital importance. It is necessary that e«ch matter as it relat» »action between mind and womiiii should furo the situation with some the outf to the n^ntal and moral outlook and knowledge, much discernment and an inclina¬ in a covering. The Doric character shepherdc» tion to express herself. «ostume is painful. The black-browed type I ! have outlined the periods from which the in a old Egypt is a caricature garlanded hoof new clothes are drawn. The varied-expres- skirt. The mid-Victorian type is terrifying t lioiU of the personal opinions of the French de see in a vampire role. So it. goes. signers will be interesting, for each will take on. Hut In a few weeks the gamble will be different parts of the period to suit, his special «Ireds of women a«'t in the. buying of clot.hr skill. It, is safe to that Victorian- th enough say somewhat, after the manner that, governed m will be eliminated; superfluous frills, lottery of our national conscription. Theyblin«: flounces, pochctl will be abandoned to the past. fold the eyes, put the hand into the mass of ma teri.il offered and draw out a number. Coats, Long and Short that the man-mad When the ships dodge The struggle will not he between wide and «harks of the sea bring to us these cases 0 metals, embroideries and vel narrow skirts this coming season, but between silks, brocades, long and short coats. vets fashioned for the American woman, w Fach designer has turned out a few of each will see that these clothes are the heirs to al length, some to the shoe top?, some to the hips. the ages. China will dominate some bits o influence of will b The public can choose between them, or adopt i i WÊm m* costumery, the Napoleon both. there, the Russian Cossacks who threw them the 11th Regiment ii The coat and waistcoat in one, as Drecoll SEPARATE BODICE FOR EVEN- selves before retreating conceives is both and dignified. Galicia will be another motive for certain cu it, graceful The cloth is a dark velour, a shade and ING GOWN and color and the recent exhibition of Prend green a fabric that seem to have made an I he skirt is of cyclamen tulle, accordion pleated, clothes in Madrid is reflected in the things tha impression already upon the early fall fashions. with garland of embroidery apd formal bouqueta. were out of Spain. brought The of the coat are The bodke and sash are of black satin. long panels generally Clothes Form Historic Episodes «gathered at the waistline and the lining of EMPIRE FROCK shows as the material swirls from «rid Aoomrt Not only will different countries be repre repe away Jade green »alin with embroidery AN ENGLISH paper has recently pub- that is com the tucked skirt of (ieorgette crêpe in dark »trap» in green. the at- serted in the medley of costumery Z\ Bahed an article dealing with in ol reí. The armholcs are characteristic, for they --.*- ing to us, but various epochs the history tempt and failure of American women First are indicative of the caprices which these open¬ of Paris and places, especially of France.the Empire grounod together the advance tj H that pad deaignera to he independent the swirling and transparent ings have taken to themselves. as it were. the Consulate, \merirans will ad«>pt, there is » def¬ tes Ol on OVa good sense, made famous by Mme. Tallien, the They arc battlemented, they are scalloped, probably to the source. draperies and sometimes run to the show¬ inite suggestion of Empire evening «Town«. in returning of Shreds and Patches, as she was nick¬ they waistline, there was not a serious or concerted Queen or Thc.-^ are nol the P. m pue s? w, In truth, the biblike of embroidery worn ing heavy cords of satin silk. It is a me¬ eoetsunee to he of Paris. It was named, panels to it and as we have abusen' it, It M mpt independent of Rumania when she arrayed dieval fashion bring the armholes down on have known .: the should by the Queen Th» Amerkna people costumes. and over the sleeve and slash them into artistic (he actúa! Kmpire of the Napoleonic day«1. of the war in France herself in the native It is of free*. leel that the outbreak will he revived from that day irregularities, and the dressmakers have sud¬ sketi-b shows «nc of these frock'. w'heels of her commerce in The polonaise THE POLONAISE OF POLAND which chirnei would «¿top all the of Rose Bertin, who denly thoui/ht of it and accepted it as a fa.-hmn satin in the shade known as jade, that the other countries would be when the predece.».-or Will be revivt>d for the autumn. It it of dull blue désira for i clothes, and Marie Antoinette, made fashionable to be indulged for the autumn. in well with the overwhelming --«r« to go on their own. gowned velour with front panel in skirt of beige cloth. touch of Chinese that is exhibited in the mod¬ polled VI the striking garment worn by the Polish prin¬ Lanvin's Continental Hat It is a happy ->Nv to report in s.up- ern costumery. /y« cess, Marie, whom Louis XV made Queen of i.'f this outlined sc-ntnnent that the ship- We are to have the out¬ Fiance. Those Chinese wraps and sleeves and going Kerensky and stiff bouquet of colored roses and long stream¬ The skirt is gathered to the band that of costumée from France which will take PEASANT FROCK the the skirt, the there is B» tassels worn by the noblemen who represented Per.-hing hat, cowboy poncho, ers of black velvet ribbon. lines the decolletage. In truth, placo on or about August ¿j will be as heavy as In beige Georgette and blue Rumanian em¬ and now, in far more manner, we will that the to? Peking as the first embassy sent from China to dignified The prospect for any especial coiffure for the bodice. Shoulder straps suggest in normal times. The number of buyers who broidery, with the new neck line and «hort reflect America's warlike in that same evidence of France are recalled into the new fashions be¬ spirit hours that are hatless is waning, if the hats of part of the figure snout give some have gone abroad has een reduced, on account ileeve». evi¬ China is with F ranee and is fighting, as Lanvin's introduction of the hat worn by Gen¬ the autumn continue to grow in size so that a covering, but that .-light sop to tradition of volunteering, conscription and changes. cause eral and Horse Lee. the actrrM she fought, to be a republic.