Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1910 — Dress Up-to-Date. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dress Up-to-Date.

GOWNS FOR STREET MOST SENSIBLE SIDE OF FASHION HERE SHOWN. Autumn Styles Are Considerably Varied This Year—Selection to Suit Different Tastes Is Therefore Made Easy.

Tailored suits and evening wraps are among the first reliable things that appear with autumn, and as usual the useful street frocks display only the most sensible' side of fashion. The short, tight skirt gets a reasonable touch with these practical garments, and though sometimes one encounters the hobble band it is so modified and tricked out between plaitings as scarcely to be discernible. Favorite models for these walking skirts are plain gored affairs, with a deep band at the bottom, with which a limp, narrow coat, single or double breasted, with shawl or coat collar and tight sleeves, goes to perfection. Other skirts will show a • little lengthwise plaiting, this in panels at the sides, or starting in below a tight blp portion, or the skirt may have a close upper part and a kilted flounce 12 inches or more deep, put on under a hobble band. But It is not possible to describe all the models, they are so numerous, so varied. The two things necessary seem to be shortness and a fair amount of closeness, and when these are obtained shops and tailors may run riot with individual touches.

The coats that accompany these skirts manifest the new vogue in a number of ways, but all things said and done, the sack coat is pretty much the same as is also the Russian blouse, for this jacket model is seen again, and is, indeed, much exploited by French makers. Upon the practical suits for both women and misses little trimming will be used, a contrasting color on the collar and handsome buttons being considered enough. But if the suit is a fine one rich trimmings may appeaf"ln~ panels on the loose coat, or a Ruslan blouse will turn back over a gay embroidered vest, while a very dressy suit here and there may be trimmed on the skirt as well as on the jacket But for the

most part the tanor skirt is without other decking than that which would be made by the plaited material and a few handsome buttons. The materials used are manifold, but Interest has been revived in velvet, corduroy and velveteen, so very likely there will be a number of such suits for the dressier wear, with the jacket trimmings suitably handsome. Wool, smooth,* rough lightweight and heavy, is used for the everyday garment, the many serges, cloths, men’s suitings and cheviot employed responding admirably to a touch of gayer color on the jacket In fact, it is quite the thing to have the suit material very somber and the coat touches very gay, and so, with a hat and other accessories suitably smart, it is possible to get both dressy and practical wear out of a well made tailor suit of quite a simple nature. In the illustration is shown the sort of street gown that will be approved for misses. It has the wellbred restraint that is desirable for young girls, and no matter bow plain the gowns, if they are fitted well, and carefully finished, with proper accessories, they would be quite good enough for dress ups.

MARY DEAN.