Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1910 — REMODELING PRINCESS GOWN [ARTICLE]

REMODELING PRINCESS GOWN

Discarded Frocks Can Be Worked Over Into Prevailing Styles Very Easily. The princess gown Is now so largely a thing of the past that women who have frocks of this character on their hands, or, rather, In their wardrobes, are casting about for ways of remodeling them in accordance with the prevailing styles. Here are two good suggestions, each worked out in the case of ah actual gown. In the first case, there was a front skirt panel which extended a little above the fitted waist line. The great object, of course, was to give the appearance of a belt where no belt was; and this was achieved by the introduction of a large ribbon rosette at each, side, with a loose fold of ribbon to match, connecting them at the hack. The gown then seemed equipped with a girdle which was only broken at tho front panel. In the other frock, the situation wav complicated by the fact that the princess effect extended upward in bib fashion, and yet was too high to agree, with even the present empire styles. The problem was solved by slashing the gown at the belt in a wide oblong, leaving only the front, as If it were a skirt panel, and then Introducing a shirred oblong of the same material aa the deep yoke on the blouse. Thus the gown seemed transformed to a tunic frock, built over the yoke material. A strap of the skirt fabric, which had been cut out, was applied over the shirred material to complete this effect.