Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1915 — OF CREPE DE CHINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OF CREPE DE CHINE

DRESS MATERIAL THAT GIVES THE BEBT OF SERVICE. Design Shown Here Is One Thst Will Work Out in Most Effectivefashion—Smartly Attractive In Every Way. After the seamstress who comes by the day has folded up her tape measure and stolen away, leaving you in a kneeling attitude weeding the carpet of the tangle of pins and threads that have grown in acreage during her week’s sojourn in the sewing room, with what relief do you open the closet door and view the row of fresh new frocks within, complete to the last button, and representing prophecies of sartorial perfection when you shall put them on with the hat and shoes and other accessories and walk abroad. This is well worth all the trials of the dressmaker’s stay, and gives that pleasant sense of support every woman feels in the possession of a weflstocked wardrobe. Perhaps you have not quite decided on a design for the white crepe de chine frock you want her to make when she comes to you, snipping around your neck with icy scissors and directing your movements through lips closed grimly over a bristling row of pins. Almost everyone plans' for a

white crepe de chine dress, knowing the real service it gives. Here is a design that may help. It is happily suited to a development in this material and fashioned on smartly attractive lines. Prettily contrasting is the upper part of the blouse and a skirt yoke of the same material marked off in navyblue cross bars. The figured goods does not show below the bust line and is cut on the order of a sleeveless vest. The lower portion of the blouse consists of a deep band of plain crepe de chine laid

in folds; each one fastened down with dull-finished buttons. Long sleeves of the plain white crepe flare gracefully over the wrists, while a broad flaring collar of sheer batiste rolls away from the neck. The skirt shows a yoke of the cross-bar extending to the hip line. It is not smoothly fitted, but mounted at the belt with a scant line of gathers. Then the plaited depth is added with each plait buttoned down to the yoke to correspond with the treatment of the blouse. The line described, however, is not a straight one, but starts at the waist line in front with the sides sloping downward to the hips, then up again to the center back. A single pink rose at the waist adds a decidedly French touch. —Lillian B. Young in the Washington Post.