Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1915 — TURN TO THE PANNIER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TURN TO THE PANNIER

FRENCH MODIBTEB TAKE UP THE NEW STYLE. Old Fashion Revived and In Pronounced Form—Ha* Much to Recommend It From the Point of Beauty.

At the Newport fashion show as well as at the openings in Paris, there was an undoubted preference shown to the pannier. Lucille has advocated it for six months and will continue to-do bo, as her new and wonderfully lovely costumes for Florence Walton have proved. In these she makes the pannier of tulle or gold lace, sometimes wired to stand out, again bunched high tn masses of materials. She has also returned to favor the afternoon frock of colored silk with a fichu of organdie and high—loopings of the fabric over the skirt, a kind of Mocartian costume which is quite fetching. Paris has shown an even more pronounced form of the pannier borrowed from Marie Antoinette’s day. The skirt of the special frock that has caused much comment has a flounce of blue, chiffon edged with velvet ribbon, over which are panniers of flowered yellow taffeta. This fabric extends above the belt to form half of the bodice, the other half being built of chiffon with shoulder straps of blue velvet.

Panniers are not exactly the kind of thing that one wears well in the street, but for the evening they are charming. Made of the soft taffeta that will remain fashionable this winter, or in tulle edged with brilliant metal embroidery, they present a pleasing contrast to the type of evening frock that the designers have given us for several seasons. If the fashion for combining lace with satin or flowered silk is actually taken up as it deserves to be, then the pannier will be the most expressive way of handling these two materials in juxtaposition. Silk that is embossed with large flowers of

metal will have its place among the evening fabrics and no one wants more than a yard or two of it on a gown. To use it as a pannier or side drapery of some kind will be displaying it to its best advantage over tulle or tea-col-ored lace. (Copyright. 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)