Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1915 — QUAINT, DAINTY FROCK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QUAINT, DAINTY FROCK

DESIGN ESPECIALLY SUITABLE FOR YOUNG GIRL. White Net "and Azure Blue Taffeta Selected for the Costume Illustrated, Though Other Materials May Be Employed.

There is always room in a girl’s summer wardrobe for the quaint, dainty little frocks designed especially for her needs, of which the illustrated model is an exceptionally pretty example. It is fashioned from white net and azure blue taffeta, and also may be made up in other materials. One of the rose-sprigged pompadour taffeta would be very sweet combined with chiffon or net, or else the entire dress might be of taffeta. In this case the pale blue taffeta makes the little peasant bodice and the deep shirred ruffle set in an un-. dulating line around the hips. Very narrow bias strips of the same are used in the fashioning of the small bowknots and festooned loops that trim the bottom of the skirt above a succession of narrow net ruffles. Narrow ribbon can be used, if preferred, but it should be taffeta ribbon and match exactly the blue of the bodice. The skirt is very full, with a clqse line of gathers all around the waist It can have an underskirt of net, or simply be worn over a crepe de chine or net petticoat. The blouse, too, is of net, gathered around the neck and sleeves, then given flaring “Priscilla” cuffs and collar of sheer mousseline de soie. The bodice is rounded out quite expansively in front, but the curve across the back is shallow, with the upper edge flared on the shoulder seams to stand away from the figure as illustrated. It hooks directly in front, with a shirred heading run the

length of .the seam and is trimmed with a tiny cluster of pink rosebuds at the top of the corsage. Two small lapels turn down over the top of either side. The underarm seams are also

shirred with a finishing heading. The underarm shirring causes some graceful folds of drapery in the material across the back, but this only extends for* a few inches above the waist.

Youthfulness is Expressed Here in a Pretty Disposition of Net and Azure Taffeta.