Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1915 — ALONG SIMPLE LINES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALONG SIMPLE LINES

NEWEBT GOWNS DEVOID OF COMPLICATED DRAPERY.

Pleot Edge Much Used Instead of a Hem—Jet Retaina Its Popularity —Organdie Embroidered In Color* a Feature.

Simplicity in line is a strong fear ture, and it shows the straight path along which the winds are blowing. There is no complicated drapery or ornamentation. Naturally, the French designer uses more skill in the manipulation of material and effects are BBUally simpler than the methods when the American sewing woman goes to copy them. One of the well-known Fifth avenue importing houses in New York said that it was no easy matter to rush out new gowns these days. The trick they turned in other times of taking an order for a frock on Saturday afternoon and delivering it on Wednesday morning was too difficult to contemplate now. The fashion for putting a picot edge everywhere has gained in Importance, and when there are yardß and yards of It on one frock time must be allowed for such work. And yet this trick of putting the tiny pointed edge instead of a hem contributes to the seeming simplicity of a frock.

, Jet is used in quantities, as everyone expected. Jenny likes it well and puts it under tulle more than she does over it. There is a strong feeling for the styles of 1840 and 1870, both of which call for quantities of

lace and artificial flowers. Often the latter is used under the former or to loop it up into the festoons which the empress of France liked. That 1840 pointed basque, with its straight decolletage, also copied by Eugenie to Bhow her lovely neck and shoulders, is used by Caillot as well as by other houses.

There is also the medieval decolletage, which is cut in a straight line across the collar bone and which is distressingly ugly: Cheruit and some of her followers almost discard the deep decollete line and bring the frocks well up on the chest. The square front with the high back .is smart. Although the high collar is reckoned as a first fashion, the best houses sent over the neck which is opened in a V in front, outlined by a

handkerchief collar in a soft material. Organdie embroidered In colon la a feature of many gowna. It often extends from the neck to the waist, forming a vest* a double collar, and also a pair of turn-over cults. (Copyright, 1915. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Most Economical of Any Blouse Is Chiffon, Which May Be Combined With the Most Tailored of Street Suits, or Used to Lend a Festive Tone to Fancy Costumes —This Blouse is Trimmed With Black Dots Embroidered on White Chiffon, and Red Embroidery.