In the World of Inventions

Designers of women's clothing "models" have turned to making use of paste materials, fashioning from them beautiful buttons, "clasps," and buckles, colored in bright hues, for the adornment of simple dresses; paste materials have likewise taken the place of needlework for the trimming of clothes, and their chief colors are gold and silver.

The articles made of paste materials that go with the trimming of clothes resemble other articles made of leather, transparent glass, wood, "plastra," or oxidized metals.

Buttons made of paste materials are often large in size, and yet they are light in weight: the lightest fabrics can be adorned with them without any fear for them from the weight of the buttons. Their shapes are many: some take the form of seashells, or of shields ornamented with a symbol or an emblem, and there are fans, flowers, coins, locks, and tree leaves — all of these suiting coats and simple dresses. The dress opening that takes the shape of a 7 is trimmed with studs of gold or silver.

Discs are made from paste materials in the shape of flowers in beautiful bright colors; they suit the coiffure with the hair swept up, at evening parties.

Likewise flowers and stars are traced in paste materials on evening clothes, and on afternoon dresses made of velvet or crepe.

The "sufra," the shoulders, and the train of afternoon gowns are also adorned with these gleaming articles made of paste materials, in the form of a line of flowers or of stars; the edges of the sleeve or the collar are trimmed with them as well. The sleeves of afternoon dresses are adorned with a spray of silver-colored flowers, and the belts of dresses made of dark crepe are adorned with a cluster of daisies set one beside the other.

In general, the fashion designers of Grosvenor Street are using paste materials for the adornment of clothes.