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Show Spanish Note in Milady's Gowns Fashion Is much maligned. Slio ever has been reputed to bo extremely extreme-ly capricious. Makers of fashions, observes ob-serves an authority on styles, nro obliged to offer their Ideas and their wares many times over uud In various guises In order to galu favor fa-vor with a capricious public. Take, for Instance, fringes and ribbons. rib-bons. They hove been subtly and cleverly offered In dozens of different ways over a period of two or three years, during which time they havo met with but Indifferent favor. Now they ore shown In tho most ostentatious ostenta-tious way. Dresses brlstlo with bunches and cockades of ribbons artistically ar-tistically and Innrtlstlcnlly employed. In many Instances art Is abandoned In tho effort to pllo on quantities of this trimming. Tho samo Is true of fringes. Perhaps tho liking for theso modes of trimming so violently evinced at tho present time has been of slower growth than appears upon first thought Tastes aro slowly developed devel-oped In dress as In other things. For a long tlmo artists and designers worked with Spanish effects and slowly slow-ly tho Spanish Influences In dress camo about. Fringes nro distinctly Spanish. Fringe on Blouses and Dresses. Attontlon has been gained for frlngo through tho vast quantities of It used. It" would havo to mako Its appeal In somo such way os this, as It does not lend Itself to a variety of modes of application ns does ribbon. Gnbrlcllo Chanel, of Paris, Is a maker mak-er who Is a stanch advocate of fringe, and Is anything but niggardly In Its use. Sho makes a charming frock of gray crepe do chine a silk which Is still her favorite and trims tho skirt with thrco rows of wldo gray fringe The front of tho bodlco supports two narrow rows of matching fringe, and tho nock nnd sleeves ore finished with frlngo of tho samo width. Tho treatment treat-ment of tho back of tho bodice Is quite different. Hero wldo frlngo Is used to glvo tho effect of a deep capo collar mado of theso twisted silken threads. Fringes nro qulto ns much In cvl-denco cvl-denco on blouses ns on dresses, wraps nnd hnts. An exnmplo of n frlngc-trlmmed blouso lu nppcaranco Is somewhat complicated, but In reality It Is not, being nothing more than n Spanish shawl slightly draped to tho figure. To a famous French dressmaker dress-maker well versed In the art of slm-pie slm-pie drapery wo aro Indebted for this model. Tho plain crepo do chlno wrap trimmed with frlngo or ribbon this year vies with tho summer furs of other seasons. It Is a welcome change and, It must bo admitted, much more senslblo for a midsummer day than a wrap or scarf of fur, which, for somo unexplalnnblo reason, has held a placo not only In tho sun of fashion but In tho hot, blazing sun of summer for a longer time than there was any reason rea-son for Its so doing. Very lovely nro tho frlngo-t rimmed Imts. Tuffeln or crepe do chine models mod-els nro inndo with softly-draped rather rath-er high crowns and drooping brims, tho latter supporting Irregular tiers of fringe. There Is a slmplo elegance to such n lint which could never bo nttnlned In n rlhbon-trlinmed model. Itenms havo been written on ribbons, rib-bons, nnd from nil Indications much perfectly good whlto pnper has yet to be cousumed beforo tho subject Is exhausted. Even ribbon manufacturers manufactur-ers themselves thought Inst year Hint they were at the height of their power os persons who mado ono of tho real essential things required by tho mod- ern fashionable drcssninkcr and tho well-dressed woman. Great must bo their iiMontsliinent this spring nt tho avalanche of orders that pour Into iliclr oillccs dniiy. Ribbon on Wraps and Dresses. Itlbbons are something to bo reckoned reck-oned with when one woman will wear fifty or sixty yards of It on her simple sim-ple black crepe de chine dress. At the ltltz nt luncheon hour on one of these balmy spring days Just beforo the exodus to tho country, ono may see several hundred yards of black ribbon In tho dining room nnd cloak room, for wraps are Just as lavishly adorned with It as dresses. How long this craze for black clothes will last in Impossible to say. Tho simple black dress Is extremely smart, but so much of this somber hue Is likely to pall In a short time. Not only will we become tired of seeing see-ing every woman walking about llko a smartly-dressed widow, but wo will feel the need of tho cheer of bright colors In our clothes. American women hove accorded considerable favor to tho ribbon-trimmed ribbon-trimmed French model gown of tho ever-present black crepo do chine. Tho ribbon Is molro. Innumerable lit-tlo lit-tlo tufts are caught to tho bottom of the dress to form a wldo band. Ribbons In Vivacious Effects. This frock Is part of a vory versatile ver-satile costume, for both a cape and coat have been made to accompany It. Tho capo Is perfectly straight, falling from n shallow yoke with a rather narrow standing collar, and the bottom of tho wrap Is trlmmrd exactly llko tho dress. The coat Is mado llko a chcmlso dress. It fastens down tho front slightly to ono sldo nnd Is girdled with a string belt which drnws It In rnther snugly to the figure. It, too, has tho fantastic ribbon trimming at tho bottom bot-tom nnd nlso on tho long, flowing sleeves. There nro Innumerable wnys of applying ap-plying ribbons, but spneo permits mention men-tion of only tho unusunl ones. Alt of tho old-lmo methods nro retained nnd to them aro added effects that are unusunl almost to tho point of being erratic. It would seem that to bo In keeping with their history and they have a history that ribbons should trail, nnd n wny of permitting them to run true to form, ns It were, Is through tho use of fluted streamers or ribbon panels with loosely-pressed pleats In accordion effect This treatment Is applied to a grcnt mnny evening dresses of tho similar typo which, In contrast,to tho black frocks, aro of bright-colored crepo do chine. The skirt of such a frock may carry many fluted panels of faille ribbon rib-bon all hanging several Inches below tho hem of tho dress Itself. If the waist has any trimming nt nil It mny tako the form of wheels mado of tho fluted ribbon. Ilouqucts of ribbon flowers are not unusual. Jiut there Is rather n novel wny of placing them over a tiny hollow hol-low wlro frame to mnko n corsage ornament from which full "mnny long ribbon streamers jf various lengths These frames nro like tho shade of a small reading Innip and aro- covered with tiny blossoms and buds cmnpnet-ly cmnpnet-ly conventional, but of exquisite work-mnnshlp. work-mnnshlp. Tho most benutlful hues nre Introduced In theso flowers Tiev nro plnced at tho waistline of th frock Just as one would wear a cdr-sage cdr-sage bouquet. The clusiers of ribbons rib-bons which fall from tho bouquet ore of all lengths. High collars and lacy Jabots will 1)0 worn with severely cut (weed suits. |