Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — SIMPLICITY IS CHARM [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SIMPLICITY IS CHARM

WELL TO KEEP IfJ MIND WHEN ORDERING GRADUATION DRESS. The'More Girlish the Frock, the Better Will the Wearer Appear, and There Are Many Materials to Select From.

Girlish simplicity is the correct thing in graduation frocks—even the most ambitious of graduates recognizes that fact But there are many versions of this simplicity, and it is attainable at varying prices and different degrees of elaboration. It is easy enough to make a distinctly girlish frock of sheer lingerie or net or lace and chiffon cost $l5O or S2OO, if one goes to a fashionable

dressmaker for it and gives carte blanche in matters of handwork and real lace, and there are many girls in ultra smart boarding schools who have ordered frocks of this type. But the great host of girl graduates is by necessity limited to a less costly variety of frock simplicity, and after all, the indefinable charm attached to youth has more to do with the success of a graduation frock than hand tucks and real lace. There are quantities of models and materials available for the youthful graduate. The materials most in favor are fine cotton marquisette, cotton voile, fine linen lawns, lace, net and chiffon, V The most practical of graduating frocks is, of course, the frock that will stand tubbing and look well after the ordeal. Fine lingerie frocks are nowadays more often sent to the cleaner than to the laundress, but the young girl is not aB a rule over careful of her clothes and if a frock must go to the cleaner often during the summer one will have little comfort from it. Perhaps the summer is to be spent where no cleaning establishment is close at hand and inconvenience is added to the time and expense entailed. It stands to reason therefore that the frock actually fitted for tubbing is the practical dress for the girl whose wardrobe is limited, and it is quite possible to take this into consideration without sacrificing too much upon the altar of utility.

A fine linon is the most satisfactory material for the lingerie frock that is to endure tubbing, and it will pay to obtain an excellent quality. - Batiste, voiles and marquisettes are softer and launder well If carefully handled, but linon will outwear them every time. The cotton marquisettes, cotton voiles and crapes are more recent arrivals and have achieved decided popularity, and a very large percentage of the cotton graduating frocks this year are being made up in these materials. They launder well, are easily handled, are very soft and graceful, and durable despite their sheemess and lend themselves admirably to simple forms of trimming, although they may be made very elaborate with hand embroidery. The cotton crapes in really good quality are attractive materials and are enjoying a great vogue, both for blouses and tub frocks. It is said that they require no ironing and are very practical on that account, but laundresses insist that they are by no means easily laundered, as they require stretching and more or less careful pressing to get them into the right shape after laundering. Embroidered cotton voiles and marquisettes make attractive graduating frocks and in all the shops where youthful dresses are shown one finds quantities of such frocks made of such material.

MARY DEAN.

Shadow Lace Over Foundation of Messaline.