Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1912 — SIMPLE GOWNS ARE POPULAR [ARTICLE]

SIMPLE GOWNS ARE POPULAR

Rely More on Taste Displayed Than on Ornamentation, Elaborata or Otherwise. Some of the prettiest little dresses seen recently were either in cachemire de soie, foulard or crepe de chine, and they were so very simple that it will be difficult to describe them. One was in black cachemire demote looped up at the sides Just above the height of the knees, with a narrow shiny leather belt at the waist, half cherry colored, half black, and fastening the corsage across the bust, from shoulder to waist, a line of buttons that looked like cherries. The low neck was turned back by a very good lace collar, and a transparent guimpe filled up the decolette. Another equally simple frock was In blue crepe'de chine with chiffon panniers and waterfall back. The corsage had a quite low waist line and was full about the bust and under the arms. A collar and revers of Milanese lace lined with blue chiffon trimmed the shoulders, and a guimpe of transparent net filled up the decollete, as In the other dress. The sleeves were quite long and tight, with lace frills, and the waist belt was just a fold of the material hanging In flat ends on one side. It is said with good authority that we are surely drifting toward the wasplike waist, and the news is Bad, for, what with very high heels and wasplike waists, we shall certainly store up many evils for ourselves in of poor health.