Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1914 — IN THE LINE OF ECONOMY [ARTICLE]

IN THE LINE OF ECONOMY

Matter Should Be Handled in a Systematic Way After Being Given Much Consideration. When one has to spend a greatly diminished <}ress allowance to the very best advantage, as a great many women have to do this year, the chief economies must be effected by limiting the number of gowns, wraps and hats, and of the oddments on which we often fritter away so many dollars in the course of a season. The few garments bought should be of as good style and quality as possible, while the principal expenditure should be in such things as corsets, underwear, footgear and gloves, which are of equal importance for health and for appearance. If these be irreproachable one will look “well turned out” in the simplest gown, provided it is trim and tidy, of good quality and becoming in color and cut. The great fault of the average woman, as a rule, is that she expends too little, In proportion, on those first necessaries—corsets especially—hence she often appears dowdy even when expensively attired.