Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1915 — TAKE UP SMALL HAT [ARTICLE]

TAKE UP SMALL HAT

•fIW YORK WOMEN ENTHUSIASTICALLY ADOPT BTYLE. Line* of French Cortume Still Form a Model That I* Accepted aa the Mode—l* Realty Convenient Type. The women la New York are adopting the tiny hat with enthusiasm, probably because they realize that it may be their last chance to get the good out of it It too. is unusually unbecoming. Unless there is exactly the right set of features beneath it, this tip-tilted hat with its foolish little brim is exceedingly trying. It does not need a beauty to wear its few fashions hare been designed with that asset in view. It needs that quality more difficult than mere beauty: indisputable style. This asset is the fetish of our women, not loveliness. All the beauty In the world today only receives the tribute of this remark: how lovely she would be if she knew how to wear her clothes! It would seem as though that wellknown model from France that came 'over last spring, with straight front and back and slightly curved sides, its to be the chosen one for early autumn wear. It is featured by many of the best houses over here, made Of silk and of serge, combined with satin. The lines from shoulder to hips are quite straight, with the sides either belted or curved to outline the figure. They are- usually called redingote gowns, because they suggest the new Iredingote tunic that Cheruit is putting out this summer. The one-piece frock that carries out the same effect of an unbroken line from shoul'der to heel is better than a two-piece suit, which gives more material to be la burden to the figure. These belted tunics, as the dressmakers often called- them, were offered in vain to the majority of our ’women last March and April, but Ithey were looked at askance as being too unconventional. Now they (have become the chief stock of some qf the houses that make a practice of dressing the woman who wants Ito be in the swing of a popular fashion. They are the most convenient type of gown that one can wear. They do not confine the figure at any spot, and cover the surplus of flesh that may give too much of a curve to the (figure for agreement with the modern standard. The majority are of dark blue and many have an acceptable touch of scarlet, either through embroidery or worked buttonholes, through which is Tun • the lacing of ribbon that holds the gown together down the front or 'back. This omission of hook and eyes or buttons and the substitution of ribbon or silk cord run through prominent buttonholes heavily ornamented with a colored silk is accepted on all sides. A hostess at a tea, a woman who always has the last thing from Callot or Cheruit, wore a white chiffon frock that swung gracefully away from the figure and was laced up half Its length with white satin ribbon. ‘{Copyright. 1815, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)