Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — FLAMINGO RED IS RETAINED [ARTICLE]

FLAMINGO RED IS RETAINED

Suits of Pongee in This Hue, With White Chiffon Blouses, Are Worn for Afternoon. The buyers who have returned from Paris with wholesale assortments of early autumn models say that the house of Callot is clinging to the color known as flammant and the fabric known as pongee. We haye not had as much of this flamingo red, which is the English for flammant, as one would expect, considering that its sponsors were the three Callot sisters. Possibly the autumn will bring it out in a definite way, says a writer on fashions. The Chinese silks, particularly that Weave of pongee which is not worn by the coolies, but by the people of caste in China, has been thrown into the French market as one-of its dominant fabrics. Sults of it in flamingo red are worn in the-afternoon with white chiffon blouses and great black or white satin hats. The addition of the black hat tones down the rose color to a beautiful thing. In this country we wear natural pongee more than the dyed kind. It is not a becoming color to any face, and, therefore, it must be kept away from the neck and chin by a collar and blouse. The new suits that are made of it are extraordinarily good, because our close touch with the Orient in the way of commerce has brought to us the kind of pongee that is turned into admirable tailored lines and has not the deep, ugly coloring of the cheap pongee which once prevailed.’ ’