Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1917 — ARE YOU WEARING COLORS? [ARTICLE]

ARE YOU WEARING COLORS?

They Should Be Used as an Emblem, Not as a Dress Accessory, Declares Every patriotic woman ought to wear the red, white and blue as a sign of her patriotism. But she ought to wear the flag as an emblem and a badge and not as a dress adjunct,* declares a writer in the ,New York Sun. Smartly dressed women everywhere have been among the first to adopt the custom of wearing a small-gold enameled or ribbon flag on the coat lapel. Among women of o®ev* society in Washington there is hardly one woman who does not wear the tiny flag. So highly do they regard the use of the colors, 'in fact, that among women who know what is correctlt is even customary to wear the tiny flag* when in the deepest mourning. And in Washington one. frequently sees a woman in her first widow’s weeds wearing the small flag on the lapel of her coat. The small enameled pins are perhaps the neatness of these badges. If' the tiny silk flags are used Instead they should not be pierced by the pin that holds them in place. A tiny bit of silk should be nlached to the back end of the flag anti this should be pierced with the pin. The most popular badge of all ia

the tiny bow of red, white and blue ribbon, and as this is not the actual emblem there is no offense in tying it or in piercing it with a pin.