Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1914 — BEADS HAVING GREAT VOGUE [ARTICLE]

BEADS HAVING GREAT VOGUE

Seemingly They Can Not Be Out of Place on Any Outer Garment of the Present Fashions. Beads have a most tenacious hold on the modern Imagination. Is it that they hold out imagination enthralled? Is it because beads are suggestive of luxury, of splendor, that we like them? Perhaps It is a relic of our Indian'predecessors—but that cannot be the explanation, for Paris seems to like beads as well as we do. However, nobody seems to know whether the Indians would barter their more, prized possessions for beads because they liked the beads themselves, for their brightness and color, or because to them, too, beads suggested splendor and luxury. The Indians, be it remembered, were and are a people of imagination. Whatever the reason, we do cling to our fondness for beads long after we have forgotten Borne of the things that interested us at the time the present erase Ar beads came in. Beaded tunics are shown on many of the new evening frocks. Sometimes tile beads are sewed on net and sometimes they are simply strung on silk and formed into long tunics. Beads are worn about the neck. And beads are embroidered on the neck line of chiffon and net evening frocks. A new mode is made of black taffeta and chiffon. Tdb sleeves are long and floating, like the old angel sleeves; they are made of chiffon, and bright red beads are fastened along the edge.

A double line of beads outlines the V-shaped neck, and round designs worked in beads are used on the bodice and the peplum.