Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — SOFT BROCADES AND MOIRES [ARTICLE]

SOFT BROCADES AND MOIRES

Gracefulness In These Popular Fabrics, Supplemented as They Are by the Art of the Tailor.

The very soft brocades and moires now used for dresses fall in graceful folds about the figure, 0 and such materials as charmeuse, silk voile and foulard are in great favor. These are dyed to exquisite shades of amethyst, rose, green, blue, citron and mauve. The most effective gowns are made ip one, though the three-piece dress is still in favor. A tall girl in rose-colored brocade looked well at a recent wedding. Usually the back of the gown has a wide, flat plait that .folds underneath at either side. By the tailor’B art ti#se are pressed absolutely flat, Bt> that there 1b no appearance of unnecessary fulness, and yet, when the wearer walks, there is sufficient width for freedom of motion. This seems to solve the! problem as to the dividing line between unnecessary width and the hideously unbecoming tightness that disfigures so many otherwise well-dressed women at the present moment. In all probability, too, It will be finished off at the waist by a six-inch deep band of velvet and braid, so cut as to prevent any suspicion of an inward curve at the waist.