Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1913 — WOMANS INTERESTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMANS INTERESTS

MODES OF MIDWINTER BARGAINB FOR WOMAN WHO KNOWB GOOD CLOTHES. inexpensive Freshening Will Make Shop-Worn Garments Look Like New—Pretty Design for a Velvet Frock. The best that the season has to offer is being shown and being worn now, and one really does get admirable baj-gains now in the shops if one knows how to buy and can freshen up handsome models a trifle shop-worn from handling. Many women who know good clothes, but> can never

afford to buy early In the season the imported frocks which they covet, make a point of waiting until the bargain sales for these purchases. They usually make a point, too, of buying such things aB may be made to do duty all the year around, and that is an easy matter in this day when sheer fabrics are used for winter as for summer. .

Naturally frocks of the kind are not so reduced in price as are the regulation winter garments whose tenure is limited, and whose lineß may be out of fashion before another winter; but one can pick up pretty afternoon frocks and evening gowns and coatß at great reductions, and though these

may be a trifle shopworn, a very little inexpensive freshening will make them look as Well as any frock would after a single wearing. And one does get the modishneSs, and, above all, the line, the cut, which the frock or coat cheap from the start does not have. : - : ~ The velvet costumes and frocks are among the best of the season’s bargains. This winter’s lines are so individual, and, in many cases, so extreme, that holding winter models over to another season would be hazardous business for the merchant. Yet women hesitate to buy exclusive winter models for the same reason and the prices must be made low enough to tempt customers into buying for the three-month service still ahead. Both in the small shops and in the large department stores excellent bargains in velvet and velveteen are offered, and in fur-trimmed garments aB well excellent opportunities are presented at this time. Buying cloth costumes at a sale is an art. One needs to go about it according to a system,,,and not be led away by fancy. If one Is buying merely for this winter’s use, one has liberty; one buys what is modish and becoming and of suitable price. The very extreme models are usually the most reduced for obvious reasons, and a certain type of woman revels in spectacular effects.

But, as has been indicated, there are frocks that are not spectacular nor extreme, but merely of distinctivelv cold weather materials, which are marked low. In the one-piece frocks for afternoon wear there are many pretty designs, both in silk and cloth, though velvet plays a conspicuous role. A velvet frock, which Is to be worn under a fur coat, should be selected with a bodice almost entirely of sheer material. Under the long fur coatß which are so much in vogue this winter, the frock of charmeuse, meteor, taffeta or other lightweight silk is the most comfortable and practical for dressy wear, with the useful fine serge one-piece frock for rougher morning wear. Such frocks are being offered at reduced prices in all the shops.