Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1913 — FOR AFTERNOON WEAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR AFTERNOON WEAR

PRETTY GOWNS OF LIGHT WOOL* ARE THE FAVORITE. / I.*. Many Materials From Which to Make Choice and Garment Is Serviceable in a Great Number of Directions. Dresses of inexpensive lightweight cloth like cashmere, Henrietta, woolen voile, or marquisette and plain or figured challis are useful and pretty for afternoons at home. There is no end to the wear one can derive from them, for they will be found serviceable as a theater dress to be worn under a long coat through the winter and even into the following spring as street dresses. Today’s cut offers an attractive suggestion for making up a figured challis or marquisette. Bordered material is used for the tunic and old blue charmeuse or plain challis for the blouse and remainder of the skirt , There is first a half-length skirt foundation of mescaline or china silk to which the plain blue lower skirt is attached. The tunic skirt is .pouched up all around over a hip sash of blue charmeuse that describes a diagonal line from one side to the other and ties at the center back in a draped bow. The portion of the tunic that hangs below this sash is cut out in front in a deep V. Two pointed bibs of the bordered material rise above the belt in front and in back with the points tacked up on the blouse. The blouse has long sleeves open at the ends and trimmed with white chiffon raffling. A collar and small jabot

of the same fill in the V-neck that is formed by the crossing of the blouse fronts. Blue charmeuse is used for the girdle, which ties directly in front. Of course bordered or figured materials need not be used in the design. It should be very pleasing if developed in a plain col<y and might be made entirely of charmeufe. Taupe color would look well with a girdle and hip sash of cerise chiffon.

Chiffon sashes aad draperies are to he mere used than silk, but they are cut wide that they may be crushed in and so not look too scant and transparent | .

Figured Challis.