Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1913 — LACE SCARFS IN HIGH FAVOR [ARTICLE]

LACE SCARFS IN HIGH FAVOR

So Popular They May Constitute, If Desired, the Only Trimming for Summer Gown. The lace business is so revived that women are finding a new way of earning a livelihood, or rather reviving a very old one. All the French salens and those of Belgium are working overtime to supply the demand. Therefore it is quite natural that scarfs should come into fashion and that they should be (he only trimming on a simple summer gown, if one so desires. If a woman owns anything in the way of a fine lace scarf, either black or white, she should be sure to arrange it in some fanciful fashion over her shoulders and down her arms and not throw it on casually whenever she wears the gown. Chantilly shawls can be draped in this fashion and made to form one of those winglike transparent draperies that Callot invented and all the civilized world took up. The trouble about one of these lace shawls is that it has too much body for summer drapery, and is better when made a part of the gown and put over material instead of the skin. For summer tulles and silk net are the best choices and it does not make any difference how vivid is the color. Conservative women may not care to use blue tulle over a scarlet gown, but the majority will not mind. There will bo artists aplenty to give it approval