Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1918 — METALLIC CLOTH IS PASSE [ARTICLE]

METALLIC CLOTH IS PASSE

There Is No Widespread Use of the Material, Writes a Leading Fashion Correspondent One cannot get away from the me-' tallic effect that grows in clothes as the season develops. It is frequently used where it is most garish and should be avoided, but that depends upon the person. There is no widespread use of me-

tallic cloth. Gowns of it are conspier uously out Instead of in, says a fash* ion writer. Here and there a celebrated French designer uses a bit of dull, tarnished doth as a foundation for some sombre, transparent fabric, but this is not often repeated. Where we get our glint of metal throughout all the women’s clothes, la in the embroidery, and now and again, in buttons? This is one of the military touches that seems to be permissible. When velours is trimmed with gold or silver braid, the effect is good, because the metal sinks into the pile s>f the fabric and does not proclaim itself so boldly as on a fiat, smooth surface. There is a good-looking black velours gown now shown which looks uncommonly ' like an American costume worn by a man, with its-tigbt, narrow skirt and its long, swinging tunic slim at -the shoulders and girdled at the waist. It is trimmed with gold braid and buttons, and there is a narrow, band of this braid to form the hem of the skirt. To soften the pefalllc glitter, there is an exceedingly deep band of black caracul on the tunic. The richness of the frock gives if a distinguished air and puts it out of the common. It seems as though that deep color of red known as terracotta and which is very much in fashion, takes gold embroidery in an agreeable fashion. One of the colorful gowns of the season is built up from a long terracotta tunic cut in petal-shaped panels below the hips and embroidered in blue and gold. Beneath the tunic is a tight skirt of dark blue satin pulled in about the ankles.