Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — NOVELTIES SEEN IN PARIS. [ARTICLE]

NOVELTIES SEEN IN PARIS.

Imitation Rose of “Oilcloth” Is Popular —Hats of White Taffeta Have Not Lost Their Vogue. * Among the fashionable accessories 1 that Paris is offering in the shops are flowers, or rather roses, made of a cloth that resembles patent leather and is called oilcloth. It is soft and shining and flexible enough to twist and turn into well-shaped blossoms. Each tone has two or three leaves and tne ornament is worn- with afternoon gowns, and especially with frocks of white taffeta which lap over from the late afternoon hours Into theater and restaurant gowns. White taffeta has not lost its fashion, but it is not combined with black unless one uses a single spot of the somber color, such, for Instance, as this black oilcloth rose. Hats are made of the material, with the rose at the side, and they are admirable for motoring and voyages by train and steamer. They fit closely to head, although none of the hatsare as small as they were, tor it is considered quite fashionable to Bhow the hair on the bright side. One sees coat suits trimmed with belts of this new kind of oilcloth, although patent leather Is really better looking and serves the purpose as well. Natural leather, dressed to bo quite soft, Is used for turtf-over collars and cuffs on suits of khaki colored duvetyn. Another black ornament that !s placed os gowns and hats Is a huge dragon fly of black tulle with a black velvet body. This is placed on a gown of black or white, and If one follows the new fashion it Is put in the middle of the back, at the top of the belt, or at the point of decolletage.