Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1910 — DRESS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE]

DRESS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

.Recently Devised Garment That Surely Has Many Points of Excellence. Women generally might be interested in hearing about a work dress that is evidently convenient. : It is made like a coat, is fitted in the back, while the fronts are cut so large they fold over as far as the underarms. Just at this point a short belt iB sewed to each front and corresponding slits are left in the underarm seams. The dress is cut square in the neck and has long sleeves. It 1b open all the way down the front and put on like a coat. The fronts cross and the belts pass through the slits, buttoning in the back. Only a few minutes are necessary to adjust the dress, and for slipping on to get an early breakfast or over a good gown to get dinner at night it cannot be excelled. —Again, us— are double, when the one front becomes soiled the other can be placed over it and conceal the, soil so that the frock in«t» twice as longTas the usual model housework dress.