Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — BLOUSES MATCH BEIGE SUITS [ARTICLE]

BLOUSES MATCH BEIGE SUITS

Garments That Will Readily Be Seen to Have Many Points of Advantage. To match the beige-colored suits are offered pongee silk blouses built on tailored lines with high, turn-over collar and rolling cuffs. The fronts of such blouses are usually box-plaited and fastened with ivory buttons in ball shape. The excellent point about these models, aside from their matching quality, is that they launder very easily. To add variety to the line, there are pongee waists trimmed with dyed laces; and still others that are hand embroidered in floss the color of the blouse material. Like many other waists of the period, qertain of the models have the convertible collar, acceptable for either cool weather or warm weather wear. The frilled blouse is back again. It is made of cotton voile, of georgette crepe or of striped filet marquisette. Its salient feature Is the one-side jabot, which is usually edged with lace. When there is a yoke it is apt to show a scalloped edge, sometimes piped with a contrasting color. A lot of gold and soutache braiding is being tried out on blouses that start out to be plain and then seem to undergo a change and finish by being a semidress model. It is known that Paris is quite mad on the subject of braid trimmings; and this, of course, means an adoption of the same on this side of the Atlantic. American women have never been very partial to glittering ornamentation, particularly in connection with daytime at-

tire. It may be, however, that the lure of gold as presented by French artists will prove more tempting this season than in times gone by. Both shadow and heavy laces enter into the composition of recent blouses. There is nothing startlingly new about this, since laces of these types have been ‘'used off and on for many seasons.