Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — STYLE THAT IS INDIVIDUAL [ARTICLE]

STYLE THAT IS INDIVIDUAL

Distinctive Taste In Dress Marks Those Who Are Undeniably “of the Elect" There are many women who slavishly follow the dictates of fashion, but even among them individuality will creep out. Three sisters may dress alike, as far as the make and materials of their clothes are concerned, but there will be ere long a decided difference in the aspect of the three. Very certainly each nation of Europe can be detected by the manner in which the women put on their garments and select them. Parisians own that present

fashions are an’expression of the feminist movement of today. A prevailing style seen on most of the mannequins is a draped overskirt and a very narrow underskirt, indeed, a short coatee, and a sash about the hips. Dark blue is more in favor than almost any other color, but it is relieved by trimmings of colored stripes or checks. Tulle is the prevailing fabric for dancing frocks, and nothing is more appropriate or prettier for young people. Sometimes it is garlanded with an embroidery of naturally colored tiny roses and leaves. A useful addition to .the wardrobe 1s the new shaped Jacket, which is far more like a sack, following the lines of the figure without confining it in any way, and is mostly made to slip on with almost any dress, and not part and parcel of one. It requires to be carefully worn, and, like

most of the modes of the day, is suited to slender figures. Hip sashes get lower and lower, and are afl important feature in the modes. Though we have not got back to the loni; Waist, these sashes are helping to prevent us missing them. Sometimes the hip sashes are replaced by rows of narrow ribbon or cord brought down over the hips, the cord holding any fullness down.