MART cottons go galloping through
the fashion picture at high speed
this season. Keep us guessing, too, as
to their real Identity, being silky look
Ing one moment, dull-lustered and
wooly the next, sheer, heavy, spongy,
lacy, sporty, dressy, formal or infor
mal as occasion may demand When
it comes to novelty, the new cotton
weaves have it written all over them
and that Is why In all fashion reports
they are getting front-page notices
these days.
The material which fashions the at-
tractive frock centered in the picture
is a fair example of a cotton which
conceals its identity,
new durene crepes—a knitted
which is extremely sheer and cool.
It might be tweed from the looks of
it, which goes to show the extraordi-
nary tricks quality-kind cottons are
playing in the game of fashion at the
present moment. The fact that this
Nandsome durene cotton weave is dot-
ted adds to its prestige, for It's dots
and dots according to what “they say”
in Paris.
Speaking of novelty, the new mesh
cottons “say it" with emphasis. The
latest member of the lacy mesh-cot-
ton family to announce its debut Is
eyelet durene. The last-minute frock
which you illustrated to the lef:
in this trio of swagger spring and
summer gowns is made of the very
new and interesting eyveleted di
cotton. Those who wear a gown fash
foned of it to a golf tournament. or
while watching the horses at the first
big 1 | discover that this ma
terinl i even cooler than chiffon Be
cause ©
term,
It Is one of the
crepe
gop
irene
very young woman, Is designed to
accentuate the wider shoulder line.
It also has a smart-looking diagonal
cut to its seamings,
Take notice,
Miss Modern is
has heard all
vogue In Paris.
berets or the rather
which harmonizes or the beret
provides a color contrnst to
they each and all gual
And her
sensed the open
this lady of fash
To sport the new cot-
ns those
that the
gtyleinformed.
that this same
wearing a beret, for
about their contin.
The simplest of
sort, the
please,
she
ued
dressy
beret
which
one's costume,
ify as perfectly
Have
gloves which
good style,
gloves! you
mesh
ion Is wearing?
ton mesh gloves such
pictured is
wearer is correctly
novelty as expressed in
this season's nitra-chie cotton weaves,
the fabric employed for the up-to-the
right in this
in terms,
which is “naff
with
design.
materials
lncy
proof positiy o
Speaking of
moment gown to the
group, has
It is a faggoted «
those who
stride All
fagroted
and
The one shown is a partics-
openwork fabric,
impor.
The prim lit-
any
fairly high walst.
Inacy quality of the
the needed
leity of its
piquant little rough
worn
“it” in no uncert:
tton
keep
the
pace
: bout
ers are choosing
for their Intest spring
gowns,
larly lovely
icily faggoted to
tance of diagonal lines,
belt—helts
width indicates n
line. The fanciful
durene fabrie provides all
durene
stress the
may be
tle nl most
decoration, hence the simp
treatment. A
beret Is
Another outst ling movement of
ection of
ies to
straw
ar as well
WOOL PIQUE LAST
WHISPER IN CHIC
We've had cotton plaque
had silk pique.
and we've
Now may we introduce the
member of the family, wool
which is the last whisper in
time chic.
newest
pique,
spring
For instance, one of our more alert
shops along the avenue is showing a
suit of white wool pique, with a trick
yoke effect which makes your shoul
ders look like those of a West Point
cadet. The yoke of the jacket Is eut
stright across the sleeves, about mid
way between shoulder and elbow, giv-
ing effective shoulder breadth as well
as a new dash and a last-minute air.
fhe jacket is short and fitted as
to waistline. The skirt is straight,
with a front pleat concealing the fact
that it Is divided. It Is worn with
a knitted blouse of white wool yarn
with an ascot scarf banded in red and
green,
If you'd care for a sailor of rough
white straw, with a tri-color band of
green, red and white, you'd find it add
ed quite the finishing touch.
Simplicity Is Theme
of Smartest Dresses
Lines stil point the way to smart.
ness. Not only the lines of the model,
but the diagonal lines of the various
woolens and the lines formed by the
eversmart pin tucking that Is seen
so much just now.
Simplicity is the theme of most of
the frocks. Life is much less complex
and exciting than It used to be and
clothes are paced In the same gait,
Novelties are conspicuous by their ab.
sence, so are freak clothes,
Instead we have smart little suits,
attractive and wearable, and charming
frocks that have a fine dressmaker alr
about them, but are careful not to
flaunt it. This Is the type of frock
that will be worn for the present, dur.
ing the day, anyway.
Rakish Little Hats
They are young and cute and rak
ish, these new hats of woven visea
straw, with a low, rounded crown, a
brim pointed a bit over the left eye
and with two quills in contrasting
colors standing straight up on the left
side, They are slipped through the
crown.
PLAY OVERALLS
By CHFRIE NICHOLAS
Make it of jeans or cotton broadeloth
or any preferred sturdy weave. The
original model photographed is in ma-
rine bine and red, with bright red
ocean pearl buttons. Be sure to add
the gay pear! buttons for they give
Raffia Necklaces Are
New Spring Accessory
Raflia necklaces are fashion's new-
est accessory novelty to wear with
that spring wool frock. They are
made of fine rafia bralded in choker
design and finished with a long tassel
which falls to the waist, White neck:
laces are worn with black wool frocks
and emerald green with light green,
Authority Says Belief Has No |
Foundation,
The ingenious who pin thelr faith
upon the Gulf stream as the real ex-
planation ofsall the current vagaries
of our weather are assured by an ar-
ticle In the Merchant Marine Bulle-
tin that they are wrong, The Gulf
stream has not changed Its course;
it 18, moreover, somewhat Improb-
able that it ever will within our time.
That familiar river of the ocean
(which, according to a recent compu
tation, has a discharge through the
straits of Florida equal to twenty-
two times the total discharge of all
the rivers in the world) is directed
by the action of the trade winds and
the configuration of the and
the ocean bottom: as long as the
trades persist It take a vast
submarine upheaval to effect any
permanent alteration in the Gulf
stream's course, and nothing of the
gort has been observed recently.
The minor variations which do occur
owing to wind changes or the vary
const
would
Ing effects of the Labrador current
are not enough to do much with New
York weather, even t!} th New
Yorkers might wish that they were
The same reprints a fac
glmlile of the first chart upon
the Gulf stream ever appeared. Al
article
to mariners since the days of Ponce
de Leon's expeditions to
and it had had an
on the routes of the early transat
lantie trade, this first
important
less a scientific investigator than
Franklin
shipmaster to mark
of the
tucket man hae
perience and
fessional
sultant
but for
nt
direction
had never hv
it had been us
business for
leniamin
current
be interesting
Gulf stream,
tem of wind and cur
the West Indies tl
to America rat}
north Atlantic
history of t
familiar with
land rivers ol
Htical develom
fect of this ses
spoken of.
The Broad Hint
“I've never
seen su
do, so that « Vers
left over, ought
seldom knows it,
—
Speak on Newspaper Hour
Outstanding economic problems
of the day will be discussed in the
National Farm and Home Hour
Saturday, April 30, by L. A. Downs,
president of the Illinois Central
railrond, Benjamin M. Anderson,
Jr, economist of the Chase Na
tionnl bank of the city of New
York, and United States Senator
Otis F. Glenn of Illinois,
The broadcast will be under the
direction of the corn belt farm
dailies, a group of daily agricul
tural newspapers which eirculate
principally among the larger pro
ducers of live stock, In the group
are the Chicago Drovers Journal,
Kansas City Drovers ‘Telegram,
Omaha Journal-Stockman, and St
Louls Dally Livestock Reporter.
Charles E. Snyder, editor of the
Chicago Drovers Journal, will be in
charge of the broadcast and will in
troduce the speakers who are to de
vote thelr
for the farm radio
slong of
attention to presenting
audience disq
existing
the
program
economic
tions of day.
The
the attention of vast
promises to
audiences par
will bring be.
ierophones three dis
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because it
NBC 1
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world,
The program will be
listeners as part of the
ture the messages of pra
ery in ant agricultural
zation in the country.
ers were chosen by Mr
tuse of thelr long
cts with our e
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