Show i BRITISH SWINGING FROM ORNATE TO SABLE GARB Textile Makers Makers' Declare Demand Demand Domand De Do- mand for Gorgeous Raiment Raiment Rai Rai- ment Is Growing LONDON April 17 Clothes Clothes shrieking shrieking shrieking shriek shriek- ing with extraordinary colors adorned by designs of wild tigers galloping horses hores or flying birds everything Unconventional unconventional unconventional un un- conventional and ornate will be worn I by men and women this spring The Bradford textile merchants are bewildered bewildered dered at th tild l demands for extraordinary clothing designs that are now being being- made of them There is evidence of a violent re reaction reaction reaction re- re action from the comparatively somber shades which have characterized d both mens men's and women's dress during the dark days of the war Men who have w worn rn khaki for years are evincing a desire for some something thins brighter and with the necessity for fOl wearing mourning imposed on almost every family in the theland theland theland land the woman oman folk have remained under painful restraint in regard to the use of or the brighter and more becoming shad shades s of material EXPERT OPINION At a re recent ent meeting of the Bradford Textile s society which includes all an the experts in the trade some remarkable prophecies were made about coming fashions It was declared by one ex expert expert ex- ex pert that the signs pointed to a re reaction reaction reaction re- re action to the opposite extreme of the prevailing sable styles style aready there were in process of manufacture re clothes designed in stripes cubist checks and post impressionist figures While some examples of these re- re malk maik ble cloths provide a not ant impression there are others it would be ri to appreciate adequately adequately adequately ade- ade ade ade- except b by people with a highly developed sense of or the artistic One manufacturer of dress goods when questioned on the subject said there was no doubt that a violent re reaction reaction reaction re- re action in taste taste- was developing In re regard regard regard re- re gard to textile materials Up to the present a large part of designs in textiles has b been n stationary and formal he said Every designer formerly obtained his effects from something still still still-a a bird sitting on a bough a column or some other conventional d device vice The tendency ten teh- n- n dency of the post-impressionist post movement movement movement move move- ment which has its votaries among the creators of materials for clothes clothes- is to create in their designs a feeling of movement t. t This he declared Is only in leeping keeping leep- leep keep keep- ing with the peculiar restlessness which appears to be the result of th the war We in an age devoted to tospe speed rather than rest we are in a vortex in which everything is dynamic and nothing static It is the most complete era of unrest un unrest unrest un- un rest th that the world h has i s ever known and it ft Is quite proper that art should catch something of or that spirit and ana express express ex ex- press Usef in a new wa way Hence the I tende tendency cy to produce jazz stripes cubI cubist cub cub- tat checks post-impressionist post I and other striking effects in the maI materials ma ma- I for clothes |