Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1916 — BACK TO VICTORIA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BACK TO VICTORIA

UGLINESB OF PAST BECOMES BEAUTY OF PRESENT. Art of Paris Is Making Even Worsted Roses Fit for Gowns of Silver Lace—Parrot Passes as Novelty. ▲ young girl, dressed in a frilled muslin with a blue sash, walking along Bellevue avenue at Newport one day last summer', created a sensation by carrying a small bird of brilliant plumage in a fragile gilt cage swung by a ring from her little linger. The city by the «ea, in which simplicity is exploited with the same kind Of artificiality as it Was by Marie Antoinette at the Petit Trianon, came very near being actually, simple for lack of incentive to be otherwise. Therefore, when Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, with the artistic aid of Mrs. Conde Nast and Frank Crowninshield, held a fashion show at her house in the name of a war charity, she was thrice blest both by the residents of Newport and the outsiders. And then a young girl, of undoubted charm and prestige, sauntered along the avenue to the Casino and the Hilltop Inn, dangling 4 bird in a cage from her finger, she was greeted as one who had 'saved a season from that innocuous desuetude which Newport loathes. The idea was greeted with ripples of applause for its audacious novelty. Yet, it was a revival from Victorian days. The girl with her bird did not have her novelty to herself very long. All winter, we have been beseeched to buy exquisite Chinese bird cages with brilliantly plumaged birds seated in them, to be hung in any room of the house, whether a cottage or a palace. 1 ,Tiny birds that glistened like beetles then came into fashion instead of the canary, which resembled a newborn chicken. The milliners seized upon this symbol of Victorianism, the gaudy parrot, and painted and embroidered it on such a quality of hats that the price quickly sank to 98 cents. The parrot has passed as a novelty and a fashionable pastime in millinery,

but another bit of Victorianism Is creeping over the lanfl. It is the worsted rose. France, looking at the past for her clothes inspiration, instead of the present and future, has lifted another bit of fancy work out of early Victorianism and .flung it into the current of the most daring modern fashions. We already have tulle and satin gowns caught up with bulbous roses, made of soft, fine wool, in enchanting colors. Serge suits are caught at the waistline and neck with small roses in green, scarlet, yellow and black. Informal linen suits, in the natural tone of the linen thread, have black and green worsted roses somewhere on the

surface .where they catch the eye and do the most good. For some months, France has been wearing hats trimmed with large, worsted roses and Alpine flowers done in green and white wool. On whatever material she wishes to put these colored worsted threads, she can do so. Even organdie serves as a suitable background. The fashions that concern ns most ut the present moment, are the crewel rose and the sampler cross stitching. No matter how far a woman is from Paris, she can use both these methods of trimming with a lavish hatfcl.

Hat With Basket Trimming.