Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — OLD STYLES ARE REVIVED [ARTICLE]

OLD STYLES ARE REVIVED

Season’s Shirt Waists Copied From Thoee That Were in Vogue a Generation Ago. Lots of people now grown up remember as children a time when nearly all the Olympians of their particular households wore shirt waists of dark colored velveteen. One was Washed and combed and taken to school by a waist of dark brown velveteen,'fed with custard pie by- a blue one, and upbraided and stood in the corner by counting little steel nubs all around the edge of the fancy buttons down its front, to divert one’s mind when the storm raged. So now'that this type of waist actually reappears it it promptly recognized as a belated reincarnation of an old style and identical with It, even to the very buttons down the front Here it is, warm, com-, sortable and serviceable, ready to repeat all its vigorous morning exercise over another generation, which in its turn will probably be equally impressed.

Another ancient resurrection Is the rather dressy stiff blouse, of large patterned braid, * with brightly colored satin hair stripes running all about on the bias over blue and green or brown and red or plum and purple backbrounds. Unlike the velveteens, these waists admit of touches of trimming, flutings and silk buttons and lace necks and revers piped around with one of the colors of the stripes Shot silk is another popular material for waists. Some of these models deal largely in fine tucks. Striped silks continue to tie on, scarf style, with a lining of plain color and a girdle tied in a good sized bow, either back, front or side. The very good looking, plain, pocketed shirt of French flannel again answers this year’s roll call. It is quite as expensive as far more elaborate silk blouses, because, to be possible at all, it must be most excellently tailored. This style is always present wherever people play golf or are In the habit of taking long tramps out into the country. In fact, one of these ought never to be left behind when going out of town for week ends. For the great fireplaces and furnaces in country houses are run by persons well used to the cold —who prefer it, in fact—and who won’t understand if, to avoid sudden death from pneumonia, the city visitor keeps herself well wrapped in her sweater.