Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1914 — Party Gown for the Young Girl [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Party Gown for the Young Girl

ORGANDIE, mull, batiste, cotton voiles, silk muslins, challi or any other of the semi-transparent materials, are suited to the design for a party gown such as that shown in the illustration. Those fabrics that have a plain surface —that is, without printed or woven-in figures—admit the use of scattered sprays of hand embroidered flowers and are the more elegant by the introduction of these most desirable of all decorations. Fine organdie and batiste and cotton voile, of the best quality, are lasting enough to merit the work which hand embroidery involves. . These plain fabrics may be embellished with set-in medallions and scrolls of fine lace insertion in place of hand embroidery. These same decorations are used on the thin figured materials which may be preferred to the plain fabric. They look equally well on either. The frock shown here is made of fine white muslin with a plain underskirt and a tunic which is made of the material laid in fine side plaits. The bottom of the underskirt is finished in shallow scallops and there a few sprays of daisies and lilles-of-the-val-ley embroidered on its surface. These

sprays do not appear on the tunic. Its only decoration is a narrow insertion of French val lace at the top of the hem. »

The easy-fitting blouse has set-in sleeves, V-shaped neck and surplice fastening at the front. Insertion like that on the tunic is set in at each side, forming a panel down the front and back of the blouse. In these panels, and in the side pieces, sprays of embroidery like those on the skirt appear. The arm’s-eye is large and the sleeves straight The sleeves are finished with a hem having the Insertion at its top and decorated with embroidered sprays. They are cut long enough to allow a little draping at the elbow where the material is caught up in two folds. The bodice is finished with a turnover collar having a narrow hem and insertion. This little frock is worn over a petticoat having a border of figured satin ribbon about the bottom. There is a crushed girdle of the same ribbon. Each wearer selects the manner of fastening the girdle which suits her best. A small flat bow at the back is to be recommended for youthful wearers.