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What Well Dressed Women Will Wear By ANNE RITTENHOUSE—Copyright. 1922, All Rights Reserved Fantastic Pockets Decorate Winter Garments The French say since the war that “money has changed its pocket.” The clothes observer, taking that sentence as a cue, might say that the dressmakers have put their ideas into pockets. The whimsical idea of decorat ing all outer garments with patches of various materials which were erroneously classified as pockets, took hold of the clothes designers about a year ago. Like all innovations in clothes, it started in a simple way. Each collection of new clothes has accentuated the fashion. At this hour, it is one of those obses sional ideas that hundreds of dressmakers share in common. We have been in the habit of hiding our pockets f0r several decades and using them as a cache. Coats have had pockets that were rarely used, it is true, but they have been without orna ment, and were suggested by the military tunics of soldiers. Mind you, this new pocket is something entirely different. It ! a pocket. Each dressmaker has her own way of making the pel try decorative. Because of the Oriental invasion in clothes, a deep crescent-shaped pocket is often chosen. On some of the best coat suits of the year it ap pears in gray or brown fur, bound with rough gold galloon and bits of colored velvet. Two of these pockets are placed over the hips, the lower edge of them running to the hem of the short jacket. On top coats, especially a good one from the exclusive house of Cheruit in Paris, there are pockets of beaver as deep as shopping bags. They are cut in triangle shape and fall open at the top to show a red velvet lining. The coat itself is black lamb’s wool. An alluring pocket that one whimsical designer put out has A tassel failing from the center of the braided, pocket is an alluring touch. The belt is of suede, with a long slit for a pocket, from which falls a gaily colored silk handkerchief. has no intention of being used. It is not made to hold one’s purse or a package. It is a thing of vanity and beauty, serving its purpose through being decora tive. If one wants to put a tiny colored handkerchief in it, very well. But one must let most of the handkerchief full out of it, securing one end to the inside with a safety pin. If a small, flat purse can be slipped into it, that’s no business of the public. It mustn’t show, that’s all. Once the idea started on its way, a horde of rapacious design ers leapt at it. History was searched, clothes in museums were investigated, old pictures were suggestive. Pockets by the dozens popped out on every gar ment, and out of some popped colored handkerchiefs. They served the economical woman a good purpose. They permitted her to use up shreds and patches of fur and galloon, of tinsel and velvet, of embroid ery and beading. She could go to the work with delight. She has had few opportunities re cently, to empty the contents of the scrap bag on the bed and search among its heterogeneous collection of odds and ends with a definite purpose in view. Now she has the chanc6. , This winter she can assemble these small relics of faded finery into something new and startling, that is, if she knows how to do that sort of thing. Pockets of Patches of Fur No gown, however costly, re fuses to carry a patch of fur below the waistline to serve as a large square of velours de laine plastered over the hip of a short jacket of the same material, em broidered with a small house, the smoke coming from the chimney; it is done in silver thread. That idea was taken from the Russian blouses launched in August, which had fragile embroidery around the hips, the patterns suggesting nursery tales. Through such Russian em broidery it became the fashion to put a house in the pattern of ornamentation. There is one material of Paris origin that has small houses woven in colors on blocked squares. Animals are often embroid ered, also, on these jacket pock ets, especially the elephant, which made its entrance into fashionable decoration through Russia. It is the luck symbol of that country. As the Republicans were in power in America, and Delhi em broidery was revived, the elephant appeared to please all countries. It has had a long career of suc cess as decoration for small beaded coin purses which dan gled on the arms of girls last summer. It appears in rock crystal in a certain Chinese drawing room, on a lacquer table, which is one of the new tricks in interior decoration. A baby elephant in costly crystal is one of the most pre cious presents that can be given this season. Women buy them in rose quartz, in topaz, in blue crystal to wear on a colored silken cord around the neck. No wonder, then, that they appear on pockets. A deep black velvet pocket cut in a deep V, embossed with a gold embroidered elephant is a trifle that any woman can put on any garment. She may not like it, but she will be in the fashion. Tiny Figures As Decoration There is no end to the use of human and animal figures in decoration this winter. It’s a primitive idea and is in curious juxtaposition to the fine Venetian embroidery which is sophisticated and artificial in workmanship-pattern. The Rus sian embroidery, as we saw it last winter, suddenly collapsed, but it left in its trail this childlike idea of using familiar objects for fanciful handwork. Not only childlike, but medieval. One blouse of black velvet, de signed by Jenny of Paris, has a large black velvet pocket placed at one side from which two porce lain figures dangle by tinsel cords. 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