Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — IN INFINITE VARIETY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN INFINITE VARIETY

NO FIXED RULE FOR THE SKIRTS NOW WORN. If the Effect is Tapering the Wearer May Be Sure She Has the Fashionable Touch—Charming Evening Model. One almost forgets the novelty of the new blouses In the infinite variety that is shown in the skirts. There is no rule to order them by, beyond that they must be of small circumference at the feet. Yards of material ,may be incorporated above, but the effect must be a tapering one, whether started from below the hips or below the knee. As there is a decided tendency toward a pannier-likc bouffancy under the hips, the tapering will be noticed most often from the knees down. The vogue for the short outstanding tunic skirt, known in French as le minaret> provides an attractive medium for the> attainment of the approved silhouette. It is seen in various forms. Sometimes there are two, and even three, such flounces, but always of a transparent fabric. They are thinly wired around the lower edge and trimmed with bead fringes, chiffon flowers or fur. A charming evening model along these lines is shown in the accompanying illustration. Rose petal pink chiffon U used for the corsage and minaret tunic. The round line of the latter is broken in front by the lifted plait in the material. Besides being wired, the lower edge is bound with dark fur. Fur is again used as a border on the arm sides. There are no sleeves; the materip.l is merely extended beyond the shoulder and caught under the arm like an angel sleeve.

Deep shadow lace flouncing is used for the second tunic, attached to a foundation of thin white silk, and a hand cut from the scalloped edge of the same lane runs across the lower half of the corsage, veiled all around

by the chiffon except where the decolletage is left open in front. A deep, draped girdle of pirik chiffon with a huge chou caught directly in front completes the blouse. The lower skirt is of black crepe meteor, slashed and draped and attached to the white silk foundation, so that the upper part of it is veiled by shadow lace flouncing.

Rose Petal Chiffon.