Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — LACE ON EVERYTHING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LACE ON EVERYTHING

NEVER WAS THERE SUCH A PROFUSION AS THIB BEASON. r ——- : ~ - _ '", _ _ 7 y - : Almost Every Article of Feminine Raiment Carries This Adornment —Used for the Most Part With Much Cleverness. If one were to start upon a shopping tour with the determination to bity gowns or wraps or millinery in which no lace appeared she would be likely to return weary and empty handed to her home, for laces are everywhere. The most unpretentious of little silk or wool gowns are designed with the lace collar and cuffs presupposed and even on the least expensive models these are supplied in cheap but effective laces. There never was a time when good-looking gowns and wraps cost so little. Besides the collar and cuffs of lace, pretty frills of it, laid in fine plaits, full over the hands and one occasionally sees a falling frill about the neck. Lace blouse, lace coats and coatee effects, lace fichus and overdresses are in great demand, to be worn with silk or other gowns. These are all separate garments which, like the collar and cuffs, may be adjusted with any costume. Nothing is smarter than the small coats of heavy lace made to be worn with silk or satin skirts or one-piece dresses. They are very beautiful worn with linen dresses also, and certain laces, as for Instance Irish crochet, seem especially adapted to linen. But it is in the body of the gown itself, where laces are made to play a part in the construction and shaping of the design, that they are used with

consummate cleverness. There are marvels of management in graceful lines and effective contrast in those models in which jace is incorporated into the gown. One may find three and sometimes even four varieties of lace in one model, each seeming the best for Its place. '

All the summer dresses have chlmtoettes or gulmps of lace. Models made of voile or marquisette, or any of the sheer summer fabrics employ the Jace trimmed fichu and frills of lace at the sleeves and neck. Heavier laces are used on silk dresses and on the long wraps of satin which are so useful and so graceful. , It is the same story of high favor if one explores the millinery field to find out what milady of fashion most admires. With the advance of summer and the donning of lingerie gowns we may expect to see the vogue Increase in the matter of lace hats. And it is not likely that laces will pass out with the summer, for some of the newest ones are superb when combined with velvet, whose vogue is just 'well started. So we may expect to see them in the models for fall. In fact the bodice of lace or net or chiffon is more beautiful than any made of heavier fabrics and far more supple and becoming. It to the day of laces and only the morning of that day.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.