Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1915 — STYLE OF DRESS SIMPLE [ARTICLE]

STYLE OF DRESS SIMPLE

Frenoh Woman Does Without Many Things That Are Considered Essential by Americans. Nowhere in the world do fashions In dress spread so rapidly, or make their influence felt in such diverse social circles, as in America, and nowhere in the world do cheap imitations of a new mode flood the market so swiftly. It is only of recent years in France that the wives of small shopkeepers, skilled artisans, and the less important employees of great enterprises like railroads have ever possessed such a thing as a hat. Even now they shop and market without one as often as not. The wife of a man in a quiet, well established, flourishing business will stick to her plain black gown with a big blue apron over it in the morning, uncovered, well-ar-ranged hair, and serviceable shoes and plain stockings, and never change her mode of dress, winter or summer. If she is employed, as she so often is, at the caisse as bookkeeper for her husband, she will usually leave off the apron; and nowadays on Sundays and fete days she usually dons a plain hat. But she has no summer gowns, no

blouses, no lace-trimmed underwear, no silk petticoats, no imitation pearls, no slippers or silk stockings, and no white gloves. For her the accessories of dress do not exist. All the pennies which they cost her American cousin she saves toward her daughter’s dot.