Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — CHANGE IN SILK FASHIONS [ARTICLE]

CHANGE IN SILK FASHIONS

This Winter Will Find Women Wearing Gros-Grain of Their Grand- +>■ mothers’ Days. Dame Rumor whispers that there 4s to be a change in silk rashlons, and this winter will find women wearing the groa-graln of their grandmothers’ days, and those women who can afford them stiff brocades heavy with threads of gold and metal, such as wars used long ago and revived tor he coronation. Worth, by the way, has taken a great rancy to these fabrics and we may expect to find many of his wonderful creations developed from these rare and beautiful materials. Ottoman sUka, says the worthy dame, will be used again, this time principally as collar facings and reveri, cream white, deep yellow and coronation red being tbe favorites in color, ahy of Which will be stnnnlng with a navy or black serge suit Uncut velvets, too. so soft that they almost resemble a ribbed silk, are appearing over the horizon. These in Paris are called “velours eplngles.” Silks, velvets and velveteens. In fact, all the heavy old fashioned materials are In the foreground, so much so that "one wonders If women are returning to the day or hair cloth and the fashionable ambition that one’s gown must stand alone.