Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1915 — HOUSE DRESS OF NAVY SERGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOUSE DRESS OF NAVY SERGE

Clever Needlewoman May Fashion * Garment From Costume Which Did Duty Last Year. Here is a quiet little house dress of very fine navy serge, trimmed with graduated bands, and having sleeves and waistband of black taffetas. The simple gutmpe filling up the square hiatus and the high collar are of Organdie gauze, the finest of fine lingerie material procurable, ifiat has yet a certain stability of its own. There is, moreover, a renovating suggestion in this scheme. An existing possession in the guise of a black satin or taffeta dress, that is essentially of last year’s

modeling, could have the skirt cut up to fashion the bands, while the black sleeves would save at least three-quar-ters of a yard of new material, and possibly more, as the serge bodice is such a very slight affair.