Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1914 — NEW BLOUSE DESIGNS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW BLOUSE DESIGNS

GARMENTS ARE BEING BHOWN IN BEWILDERING NUMBERS. / Woman Muit Be Difficult to Pleas* If She Car Find Just the Right Thing That Best Buits Her. All sorts of tricks are resorted to in. an effort to glorify the already glorified blouses of the present season. In looking over the hosts of alluring new blouses arrayed in Washington shops in bewildering numbers it would seem almost beyond the power of even the most prolific mind to conjure up another novelty. Yet each time we glance around we find more, prettier than the last. Only recently the sash has been brought into service and played upon in many unique devices to offset and accentuate the charm of particular models. As high-walsted, blousedover effects are in favor now, broad, swathed girdles and sashes are appearing in the new designs and many lovely colors are introduced as relief notes. Aside from the novelty of the blouse design sketched for today, much of its attraction can be attributed to the wide Roman-striped girdle that is crushed loosely about the waist. As the blouse is a white one, it will be best to select one of the red-and-green-striped ribbons on a cream-ground color, with perhaps finer stripes of green and yellow. White crepe de chine makes the pretty blouse that is devoid of all triAiming save for the round silver cord lacings in sleeves and across the front. The fronts are left open at the neck, but are drawn together at the waist, and a white net yoke, made with a corded shirring and narrow heading, fills in the opening. Small, firmly buttonholed eyelets are worked on either Bide of the blouse opening through which to run the lacing. It is knotted just above the girdle with ends hanging below. The two rounded tabs that show below the girdle are extensions of each blouse front. The back and fronts are slightly gathered to a square, shallow shoulder yoke finished with corded seams. The seams are wide at the armholes and set in smoothly under a corded seam below the normal shoulder line. They are cut with a flaring-cuff exten-

slon that includes a tiny square turnback flap on the outside of thq wrist. They are dart-fitted along the outside of the forearm, and the silver cord lacing hides the seam. As a final touch there are the two curved pocket openings below the

bust on either side. These are piped with self-covered eordjjng.—Washington Star. t

New Blouse Design in Which Several Touches Are Included.