Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — WHITE SEASON COMING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHITE SEASON COMING

INDICATIONS THAT SELDOM FAIL • POINT TO FACT. Hand Embroidery on Lingerie Frocks Will Also Be a Feature—Graceful Example Is Shown in the Sketch Here. Hand embroidery will figure conspicuously fiT the lingerie frocks of the coming summer. Intimations of this fact are quickly established in looking over the assortment designed for the southern trip, and surely it takes but little convincing to reach the conclusion that there is nothing in the trimming lists’ quite so nice as hand work. Especially Is this true in the case of the all white summer gowns, and, though it may seem superfluous to say it here, all indications point to a “white season” —that is, white is promised unprecedented popularity. A graceful frock is depicted in the sketch, with hand embroidery to give it added charm. White cotton marquisette and ratine are combined in the model, the former being used for the skirt and guimpe, and the latter for the coatlike blouse and tunic. The guimpe is softly draped and surpliced over the bust with a turned back fold of itself forming a little collar around the V-neck. The sleeves are long and gathered into a narrow wristband, them finished with a ruffle of scalloped embroidery. The skirt is in two deep flounces. The first reaches to the knees and is fulled in at the waist with tiny pin folds instead of gathers. The second may be similarly fulled onto a kneelength smooth fitting foundation. Both

have a scalloped and dotted border of embroidery worked in white floss, and the upper iiouuce is lifted and draped a trifle under a velvet bow. The ratine blouse has elbow length kimono sleeves simply finished with a narrow turnback facing of self material. The blouse fronts are left widely open, disclosing the surpliced guimpe, and are finished with lapels and a collar of itself. Stenciled rose mdtifs are embroidered across the lower surface of fronts and sleeves. The short tunic that dips toward the hack hss a five-inch space left between its front edges at the waistline, but they are drawn together and cross each other at the Jower edge. This is scalloped and embroidered with rose

motifs and scant gathers are evenly distributed about the waist. —Kansas City Star.

Marquisette and Ratine.