Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1917 — USE MUCH WOOL EMBROIDERY [ARTICLE]

USE MUCH WOOL EMBROIDERY

Paris Designers Place Unusual Designs on Almost Every Kind of Material, Even Chiffon. Since the simple silhouette is an established fact, an opportunity has been given women to spend their time and energy upon the charming details of their costumes. In America we have been so busily engaged changing the cut of skirts and the width of sleeves that we had no spare moments to spend upon the little hand touches, the expert finishings, and the hemstitched edges. These seemingly insignificant niceties are really important, says a writer in the New York Times. In Paris they realized that ages ago and took advantage of the fact, sending us each season creations to excite envy because of their infinite attention to the little things that put their stamp of perfection upon the finished gown. Wool embroidery, the Parisian edict is, shall be an important factor in the trimming of winter frocks. They are drawing woolen threads through it on silk and satin, on serge and velvet, and -—yes - even on chiffon. And the patterns? They are no longer effects of a group of roses or a chain of daisies stamped laboriously upon the material and then worked over in tiny, close lying stitches. The artist takes a large-eyed needle and a strand of bright-colored wool and works out a design directly*upon the gown, directly upon the spot where it will live until the whole creation has become passe.