Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1913 — SMART LINEN FROCKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMART LINEN FROCKS

INDISPENSABLE PART OF THE EQUIPMENT. Outing Season Is at Hand and Outfits Are Being Carefully Planned— White Serge Is Very , Popular. ’ • The seashore season Is at hand, and outfits for the beach resorts are being carefully planned, unless they are ready and waiting for use. What one needs depends, of course, upon the character of the resort chosen. A fashionable hotel means one thing; a cottage life at a popular resort means another, and informal shore life is still another proposition. But the or-

dinary seashore equipment means at least provision for morning dress on beach or veranda, bathing dress, afternoon frocks for Casino visits, bridge, etc.; evening frocks for dinner and dancing and attire for whatever sports art on the program. For either a shore resort or yachting, white serge is indispensable, and two or three frocks of light-weight serge in white, and Wjhlte striped in black, will be fopnd exceedingly useful if one can afford to have them. The expense need not be great, either, for delightful things of this sort are to be had ready made at very reasonable prices, and so little material Is needed for one of tHe chic, but simple one-piece frocks that if made by the home dressmaker, the cost will be slight. Indeed. As a general thing, one will get better lines in the inexpensive, readymade frock than in the home-made one, though the quality of the materials may be in the store frock in-

fertor. But if one is willing to pay a fair price, either the white serge frock or the white serge suit may be satisfactorily obtained in the shops. The white serge suit or frock may be made up on severely tailored lines or in- dressier seml-tailored fashion, trimmings of lace apppearing In the shape of collar or sleeve frills. A chic little suit of white serge seen recently had no trimming and depended entirely upon its Hues for style. The jaunty coat was fastened at the front with a simple button above the waistline. The front slanted at a sharp angle toward the back. There were long narrow revers and turnback cuffs of the material. The skirt front was fastened at the lapped-over part at the bottom with three buttons. A supply of Ng one-piece frocks of thin cottons or linens should be included in every seashore outfit, and such frocks are to be had at surprisingly low prices, if one buys them ready made. Or they may be made up at even smaller expense by the amateur seamstress, with the aid of a good pattern. .<* There are many charming Hide evening frocks of marquisette in evidence this season, and the white ones hand-embroidered or lace trimmed, make excellent substitutes for lingerie frocks of linens and batiste and do not crumple so easily. Charmeuse, crepes and similar silken weaves make exceedingly useful afternoon frocks for seashore wear, and foulards are the most serviceable of all. The white frocks in these fabrics are tremendously popular, particularly the one-piece simple style, which is suitable for the most informal afternoon wear, yet dressy enough for a hotel or casino dinner or evening toilette. MARY DEAN.

White Serge Suit