Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1913 — SKIRT MUST HAVE FULLNESS [ARTICLE]

SKIRT MUST HAVE FULLNESS

Extraordinarily Tight Garments Soon to Be Decidedly Out of the Realm of Fashion. The most graceful frocks are those in which they use no straight lines, but “hanging draperies,” as the artist describes them, and the newest of new fashions show that all “tightness” is to be banned. Evening frocks will perhaps remain tight round the ankles, but our modistes may yet allow one a little more freedom. “Tight” skirts have had their day, and a very long day, too. One writer, discussing the question, puts it very neatly in pointing out that “the only way out of the difficulty is to give the necessary freedom to the skirts to the extent of some ten or twelve inches, and thus allowing the wearer to avoid those mincing little steps which can never be anything but ridiculously ungraceful. A novelty in camisoles has made its appearance. It has been introduced specially to wear under the filmy corsage worn with all smart toilets for the daytime and evening and is made of net with a broad band of ribbon round the body, tied in a large bow at the side or in the center of the front. As a matter of fact, it is quite as pretty as a blouse, and so makes a splendid foundation for a fragile corsage.