Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1912 — BLOUSE OF MANY MATERIALS [ARTICLE]

BLOUSE OF MANY MATERIALS

“Patchwork” Is About the Only Way Properly to Describe Some of the Creations. To apply the word patchwork to certain fascinating creations of the blousemakers seems far from kind, but one is at a loss how otherwise to describe them. Nowadays, indeed, one picks up deliberately a motif of embroidery, a square of linen or Venetian lace, a piece of broderie Anglaise and some odd scraps of lace, wbfch need not match, and all of these, placed skilfully together, produce a result that is naturally unique but is at the same time dainty and original. Many of the most exclusive houses make a fine art of these blouses, and they are very expensive, for the lace of which they are made is real and often valuable and old. But the patchwork blouse may be made very successfully from odds and ends of the sales —if with the addition of some scraps of real lace which have hitherto been hidden uselessly In a drawer, so much the better.