Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1914 — SUGGEST THE TAILOR-MADE [ARTICLE]

SUGGEST THE TAILOR-MADE

Present-Day Blouses Are Along More Severe Lines Than Has Been the Case for Some Time. Has the one-piece frock laid successful siege to the shirtwaist? Although not answered completely in the affirmative, there can be no doubt that the all-in-all garment so popular this season is going to affect the position of tiie blouse. However, new waists are here, and plenty of them. What surprises us in their design is the tailored look of most of them. Following in the wake of that pied piper, the high collar of these military times, many of them have a buttoned-up-to-the-neck appearance missing in these garments since many a year. Of course we are not yet in possession of boned "chokers.** Nevertheless, the blouse of today is distinctly "tailored." Witness to this is supplied by a new model-of crepe meteor buttoned sternly down the front Perhaps one should say up to the front for those buttons never end till they see safely in its place a high collar turning down smartly over a stock of black moire. This is, in fact the favored collar of the favored evqry-day blouse—a turned-over one which reveals in front a stock of velvet or moire. Sometimes, of course, the collar is not severely turndown; sometimes it yields to the fanciful little points and variations which have added so much charm to the tailored suit. In spite of this the trend toward the tailor-made is clear. Yokes are much favored and with them a perfectly normal cut Of sleeves.

these, by the way, are rather tight and conform to the rest of the garment In plain turn-back cuffs. One of the most charming versions of the tailored waist .to make its appearance is that with a plaited bosom. Perhaps thin plaited effect to at its best in white, but there are in navy and brown crepe de chine examples evident of the fact ' that you are not limited to the regulation shirt material. * .