Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1915 — PRETTY IDEAS IN COSTUMES [ARTICLE]

PRETTY IDEAS IN COSTUMES

Combination's Give Distinction to the Wearer —Advantages of the Gored Skirt Are Many. A pretty gown of casement cloth is combined with a fine and soft printed cretonne. The casement cloth is in periwinkle blue, the cretonne has a buff ground almost hidden with clustering periwinkle-colored flowers and green foliage, and through all runs a line of black. It is further enhanced by black buttons and a sash of draped black braid tied in a clever bow. The gored skirt gives scope for all sorts of styles, and is certainly a most sensible one for those who cling to a closely fitted outline of hip and yet like the fullness of the lower skirt. A very pretty black ninon and taffeta frock is thus arranged, the ninon pulled into confining bands of taffeta, the yoke itself being of the taffeta embroidered with scattered flowers in many colors, and a quaint cravat being formed of a host of narrow ribbons matching them, tied in a picturesque bow. One of the new full-skirted evening gowns is quaintly fashioned of a very soft, thin make of supple black satin, broadly inset with bands of fine black chantilly lace backed with flesh-col-ored ninon, which in their turn are divided by bands of black velvet with the tiniest possible black tulle ruches at the top and bottom. The quaint little bodice has pretty bristling sleeves of frilled lace tied with black velvet, and a big rose of palest pink shaded to gray in the center, with black and gray foliage, at the waist, where there is also a velvet belt with long ends. A steel-blue and white-dotted silk is girlish in simplicity, with a jaunty Eton jacket in plain blue taffeta. A little color is introduced in two beaded medallions on the jacket and on each sash end falling at the side.