Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1915 — RETURN TO THE PRACTICAL [ARTICLE]

RETURN TO THE PRACTICAL

Modern Fashions Are Drawing Away From the Type of the Extreme and Unusual. Many periods of history and many countries are contributing their quota to modern fashions. Although we all know that “there is nothing new under the sun,” none the less this maxim seems particularly applicable to fashions and dress. After all we cannot wonder at our resourceful artists “searching past records for good copy,” especially at a time like thd present. It Is a curious and interesting fact that we see in the most recent phases of La Mode quite a distinctive femininity, such, indeed, as we had not seen for many a long day.-. This tends to prove how everything goes by the law of contrasts; as man returns to primitive hand-to-hand fighting, so do women return to the primitive in dress and decoration. In mute opposition woman suddenly returns to flounces and ab surd attractive trills and furbelows. In spite of this tendency we must not imagine that women do not still retain a taste for practical clothes as well as a modicum of common sensd. Those who admire the practical in dress have turned with avidity to the stripes and checks which are offered in such great profusion this season.