Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-08-02 | Page 2 | Embroidery Now the Thing

Embroidery Now the Thing. That beaded trimming is rapidly giving giv-ing way to embroidery seems to be fashion tenderly beyond "dispute. I-is I-is said that one reason why the metal lie bead effect became so popular It. Paris and later in America a season ot so ago was because it was possible to make use of metal filings and scrapings from munitions works for much of this trimming. But for some reason very little metal trimming is coming Into this country now and beads are scarce. Fmbroidery is entirely within the bounds of things available. Hence the new dresses will show embroidery rather than beads. It has been said that there is an end to so-called Oriental and ecclesiastical embroideries, embroider-ies, that Is, bright colors have been overdone, and most of - the smart dresses showing embroidery will be worked in threads of the same color or in some simple one-tone contrast.