Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1913 — QUAINT STYLES IN FICHUS [ARTICLE]

QUAINT STYLES IN FICHUS

Immense Variety Designs With Cuffs to Match—The CorsetCover Gulmpe.

Fichus are very popular and are made in a great variety of designs with cuffs to match. Frequently they are combined with the De Medici collar. There are quaint styles fitting over the shoulders and edged with pleatlngs of net or lace. Pleated collars of net, lace or chiffon, or a combination of lace with the other materials are made sufficiently long to stand high about the neck and to extend down on either side of the coat or dress to the waist line. These collars will be worn either on the dress or'on the coat, being in all white, or black and white combinations. The edges of full-length sleeves are often finished with pleat* lng, which sometimes extends around the neck of the dress and on either Side of the vest. Something very new is the corsetcover gulmpe, which fills the requirements both of a corset-cover and a gulmpe. There are gulmpes with round, square or pointed necks, finished in ruffles, frills. Medici, fichu and other forms, from the simplest to the most elaborate. Some of the handsomest are for evening wear, made of chiffon In delicate evening shades and decorated with beaded motifs, bands or embroidery. Silk and chiffon are used for little novelty bows. Butterflies of tulle are worn at the neck, or at the waist line, Just as the single rose is worn. Vsstees of satin, moire silk, persian silk, brooada, etc., are made either

single or* double breasted, and ar« often trimmed with pipings of a cost trasting color.