Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1912 — FASHIONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FASHIONS

TO WEAR ON VACATION GARMENTB THAT ARE COMFORTABLE AND STYLISH. Model for Bedroom Wrapper is One of the Beet Put Out—Suggestions as to the Underfixings That Are Needed. This shows an ideal wrapper tor bedroom use, and the model may be belted or not, as the wearer chooses. Delightful fabrics for bedroom gowns can be had at the Japanese stores, these being of softer weave and commonly more beautifully colored than the materials in the general stores. One design of Japanese crepe, which was selling at 12 cents a yard, Showed

great bunches of violet wistaria on a rich cream ground. Japanese figures, men, women and funny almond-eyed children, showed on other crepes quite as cheap, and there are always plain ones in harmonious colors for the collar and cuffs of the gown. Flowered and plain lawns are also

suitable for this stylish and graceful gown, as well as shallie, china silk and summer-weight flannel. As to flannel, it Is not superfluous, for many resorts the morning and evening are quite cold enough for a wool gown, and then having a flannel wrapper on hand proves a great comfort. As illustrated, the wrapper is of blue nd white shallie, the collar and cuffs of white silk, and the belt of soft blue silk. I cannot resist offering a suggestion s to the nnderflxings needed for tho short vacation, for much of the comfort of one week’s outing depends upon these. One soft silk petticoat in a dark color would be very useful, taking the place of several white ones. For the chilly days, too, a Shetland wool spencer, to wear over or under the shirtwaists, would be most valuable, and this would do away with the need for special wraps. But if a long coat is to be bought have it of taffeta, for in this it would do both for traveling and for dress up. Black taffeta coats, threequarter length and trimmed about with a little puffing, are being sold for $5, and the silk of them is astonishingly good. Albany rate, they will wear a season, and a summer coat of some sort is likely to be needed for the shortest vacation, unless one is supplied with a cozy underfixing of some sort, and does not mind the bother of dressing and undressing to suit the morning cool and the midday heat. MARY DEAN,

Ideal Style for the Bedroom Wrapper, Whatever Its Material.