Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1915 — COPY BELGIAN STYLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COPY BELGIAN STYLES

MODISTEB QUICK TO BEIZE THEIR OPPORTUNITY. ) _ 1 With That Country 8» Much In the Limelight It Was Perhaps Inevitable—Collars of Many and Pretty Designs. There Is no doubt that we win have an epidemic of Belgian styles new and old. - Callot has already sent over a gown of velvet trimmed with tiny white porcelain beads aad fur, which she calls Belgian, and the Flemish peasants will surely furnish much that is colorful and pictorial in the new fashions. Everything contributes to this domination of fashions in the near future by the country and the people who have stirred the minds asd hearts and Imagination of the people more than any other factor in this world war. As one writer has said* Germany may have occupied the place where Belgium ’was, but its soul has escaped to all the peoples on the planet. One has a thrill of pride in even wearing a garment or a hat that goes by that name and has been suggested by that country. It is like being touched by the mantle of courage. The most amusing touch anent the high collar that the American woman is taking up is the fact that she haa decided to leave a deep V-shaped wedge of her chest exposed beneath It. She saunters in the street in the coldest weather with her coat cut down almost to the top of her corset, showing a flicker of bare skin between, and her neck enveloped in a for stock that is warm enough to do duty in the Russian trenches. The new blouses also have high boned collars and the coats reach to the ears. Some have the directoire collars that rise high and turn back on themselves in a straight line; others have the consulate collar, which goes straight across the back of the neck, also high and turned over and made of some brightly colored stiff

silk thickly lncrusted with gold or silver arabesques. The smartest ontside collar is of fur as wide as it is possible to wear it. It is made like a clown’s ruff in that it rises to the chin and does not bind the neck under the chin. It fastens at the left front with a rosette of velvet ribbon, or with braid buttons and lbops. High Mack velvet dog collars are again in style with house blouses that are cut In a deep surplice opening in

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Smart Black Silk Beaver Hat, With Long Quill Ornament, Modeled on the Belgian Soldier's Cap.