Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1913 — KIMONO SLEEVE STILL USED [ARTICLE]

KIMONO SLEEVE STILL USED

Style Which Has Much to Recommend, It Has Not by Any Means Lost Its Popularity. The very newest evening gowns show the kimono sleeve more often than not. On heavier gowns there is usually an armhole, even though low in cut, but for lace and chiffon and all the sheer materials the kimono cut is still considered most graceful. In the silk gowns the sleeve is set in sometimes with a tiny frill or with cord or a bit of insertion. The armhole may be large or small, round or oval, or square cornered. With these fancy arrangements of the armhole the shoulders is always long. Sometimes the sleeve comes from an inside guimpe and is not attached at all to the waist Itself. There are many charming variations on this idea. Dinner gowns are made, in some instances,with a square opening at the neck in front and high at the back. This sounds old-fashioned, but it is quite new, nevertheless. The cut of the neck is often square this year, and many models will be seen with the square back as well; but one must be assured of good shoulders first —for it is a trying shape. The trains are mostly pointed and trail after one in a negligent sort of fashion, as if not fully determine which direction to follow.