Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1915 — Dinner or Reception Gown [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dinner or Reception Gown

IT IS NOT so much what is worn in apparel as it is the manner of wearing it, that counts for style in dress. No matter how chic the costume as it comes from the hands of its designer, it is quite possible to lose all its class on a woman who has no sense of clothes. And we all know people who can wear rather plain things in a way to make them seem full of distinction. All of which goes to prove that if one chooses certain gowns according to good Judgment they may be worn for several seasons and sot look out of date or lose their attractiveness. In selecting a gown for afternoon or evening wear, with, a view to getting more than a few months of usefulness out of it, the first requisite which it must possess is real beauty of outline. ,If it fits the figure rather vaguely, seta well and is more like a pretty draping than a garment cut along definite style lines, it may be counted upon to outlast the life of those gowns that are merely exponents of a passing style. An afternoon gown which does duty for a reception or dinner dress is jhnwn here, made.of satin, and moire-. It may bb worn with a lace guimpe, and, with the new little accessories each season brings in, could pot

be called in the least out of date. Recalling the modes of the past five years it would be rather difficult to deter* mine in just which particular season this dress might be placed as a type of its style. A coatee of beaded net enters into the composition of the gown, but is not used on the left side of the bodice. This side is made of chiffon and decorated with rows of passementerie. Chiffon forms the foundation of the other side, also, with half the body of the coatee draped over it. At the left side the drapery is caught with a pointed buckle of cut steel. The coat skirts fall about the back and hips and a pointed satin tunic-forms the upper part of'the skirt, with the underskirt of moire. ' , • •

Plain silk stockings and satin slippers with small rhinestone buckles certainly belong to the modes of the hour. Also the high hair dress, with part at the left side and narrow band of rhinestones, speaks of the hairdresser’s last triunSphs. Altogether the toilette is one that compels admiration. It Is graceful and pleasing in its details and its wearer has shown a clever discrimination in selecting it JULIA BOTTOMLEY.