Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — CUT OF THE NEW CLOTHES [ARTICLE]

CUT OF THE NEW CLOTHES

Really Few Fundamental Changes \yIII Be Noted in Styles for the Coming Season. Beyond the all-important advent of the trouser skirt no fundamental changes, and few even of a secondary order, have Ween rdade in styles. Skirts are no wider and some of the modes are narrower than ever. Possibilities, however, are held out of their being rendered less inconvenient and dangerous by a plait or two hidden beneath an overlapping breadth and other simitar devices. Coats are almost invariably short, but they continue to set close to the hips, while not made to tighten in at the waist. Empire styles of waist .prevail, the skirts coming up high and both costumes and dresses always belted in about the natural waist, often right under the bust. Many of the smart dresses have trains, but such an addition is not considered obligatory by any means and dresses without them are reckoned qtflte as t smart. Trains are always narrow—a large percentage do not exceed in importance a prolonged panel. Slight modifications have been made in sleeves. The fashion of cutting in one piece with the shoulder no longer reigns supreme. Half long and three-quarter long sleeves are cut slightly wider and all sorts very straight Boleros have have been revived, but as part of the costume or dress bodice, not as separate garments. Wide collars are retained, but revere enjoy less favor and are either omitted or rudimentary.