Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1914 — TUNICS OF ALL SORTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TUNICS OF ALL SORTS

GARMENT MAY BE AS VARIED AS WEARER DESIRES. —•— 1 —• No One Particular Style Has Been Selected for Explicit Approval— Frocks That Seem in Fair Way to Be Popular. The catch-word of the season is the tunic. Sometimes it is formed of circle after circle of flounces or formed of shirrings and puffings, and other models show tunics which extend to from three to four inches of the skirt bottom. One very smart and novel model taken from the modes of the time of Louis XVI was made with

a long tunic of black taffeta, finished at the bottom with deep scallops, and placed over a white lace skirt the underskirt being scarcely visible. Black taffeta or taffeta of some somber tone, considered e x - tremely smart with the white lingerie materials, the somber note usually appearing in the shape of tunic trimming or one of the swathed girdles, which' are so much in vogue. Three frocks recently seen are a

fair type of the frocks that will be -seen-at -summer-resorts. One is of. eyelet linen, with a gay touch of color In the way of Roman striped ribbon trimming beading, a frill of the embroidery which forms a fichu, and forming a girdle ending in loops at the front. The skirt has set on founces of the eyelet embroidery. Another frock is of flowered rosecolored and plain taffeta. The blouse

closes with a single row of material buttons, and has a plaited organdy collar trimmed with a frill of lace. The skirt is made with a long tunic and plaited underskirt. Still another model is made of black taffeta. Thite model has the new tight-fitting corselet shaped bodice, with organdy vest and collar. There is a long tunic with a panel of plaits back and front. A cape costume is also in vogue. Undoubtedly the modish cape costume of serge, of satin or of taf-

feta will be seen at every resort this simmer. The cape costume of the r small cut is of white serge, and has broad bands of the material which cross at the front and button to the skirt. The blouse and long plaited tunic are of white crepe de chine, while the underskirt is of cape material. There is a flat turn-down collar of white crepe de chine. Linen has always been worn, in spite of the fact that women have ever grumblingly contended that it gets mussy apd stringy after the first wearing, and women will wear it and will continue—unless the dream, come true of the so-called “uncrushable linens.”