Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1911 — THE BOUDOIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOUDOIR

HITS IN NEW MODES

HIGH-WAIBTED SKIRT AND SHORT SLEEVE FEATURE*. &yfrfo.,-- _ .-I. : ; Y.‘ '7Easy Way to Make Over Last Year's - Skirt 8o It Will Be Becoming As Well As Fashionable.

There are two features in the new spring fashions that should be gratefully received. One is the highwaisted skirts; the other Is the short Bleeve. We wonder what we can do to last year's skirt so that It will be becoming as well as fashionable. This much we can do: we can match the material and extend the waist. by means'of a shaped belt stitched to the skirt, that will give at least a semblance of a high-walsted skirt and keep ns from the necessity of adding a separate belt with buckle. When making the new skirt for spring and summer, it Is well to know they will be cut from one to two Inches above the normal waistline and that they will be fastened at the side of the front A four-gored pattern will be used, which brings a wide panel down the middle of the front and back, which can be converted Into a box plait,-If one desires. The fastening is at the left of this wide front panel or gore, which shows that the habit back will be continued In favor. On white linen skirts as well as those of khaki and duck, the fastening Is with buttons and buttonholes, and on the cloth skirts it Is with glove clamps or hooks-and-eyes. The skirts are mounted on a wide inside girdle made of wide belting, with slight darts at the side to fit the curve of the figure. This girdle holds the entire garment In place; it keeps the seams in a straight line and prevents the skirt from sagging away from the blouse. The short sleeve Is to be very much the fashion, If the advance styles continue In favor. It will not be worn To the exclusion of the long sleeve, .for the latter Is shown on many of the best gowns, cut to a sharp point as far as the knuckle, and closely fitting the aria from shoulder to'- waist. All the peasant waists, the eton and bolero jackets and many of the expensive wash blouses have small straight seams that end at the elbow. The little coats that are coming in are exceedingly Jaunty and very becoming. Straight, unfitted models are plentiful and all sorts of little garments that fasten with one big button somewhere between the throat and the waistline. Qfie coat

seen was of short-hip length and was loose and draped slightly at the front, where it closed with a big buckcle. There was a large collar rounded at the back. The leading milliners say that the favorite colors for spring and summer bats are black and white, pearl gray, moleskin and vivid shades of red. These are all Worked out fa straw, tulle, velvet and satin. The, new straws are so pliable that they can be folded up without crushing. They are not only used for hats, but for trimming. Scarfs, rosettes and

the huge, irregular bow that has become so much the fashion are all twisted out of this pliable straw, which Is beautifully colored in the new dyes. The striped straw is the novelty. This is in line with the faslUon for stripes that pre are promised on every side. The stripes are not wide and they are put on a black, a white and a- straw-colored foundation.