Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1915 — FEWER WHITE WAISTS SEEN [ARTICLE]

FEWER WHITE WAISTS SEEN

Pale Tints More and More In Evidence as the Warm Weather Makes its Presence Felt.

The vogue of the all-white waists is going out, for the new blouses are In pale tints, yellow predominating. White crepe de chine and the soft cotton crepe are first in favor as materials.

Another notable feature of these early blouses is the “outside” finish, most of the blouses being made so as to come down outside the skirt, sometimes forming a little buttoned vest, and sometimes merely ending in sashlike loops or fastening snugly with a single buckle covered with the material.

They are all far more elaborate than in former seasons, but the frill, both single and double, has been set aside. Its death knell was sounded by the introduction of the winter suits buttoning close up to the throat, and now with summer the little waistcoat is so popular that the frill has been definltely.set aside. With it has gone the deep sailor collar, the new blouses all showing either a high flaring collar or a flat, narrow one of soft material, and in some instances the neck is finished simply with a band of the material, with frill or net inside to lend a soft finish close to the skin.