Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1915 — LATEST FRENCH GOWNS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LATEST FRENCH GOWNS

NEWEST IDEAS OF THE MAKERS OF FASHIONS.

Innovations Set Forth by Worth Have Been Accepted as Setting Forth Styles of Season —For Afternoon and Evening. An attractive feature in some of the ▼ery new gowns is the introduction of trains that hang from the waist Worth is responsible for this innovation. That bouse has always liked the ceremonial in clothes, going in strongly for the dignified English effects, as the founder was an Englishman. The uncle who runs the house, is opposed to many of the modern features of clothes; the exploiting of new ideas through manikins at public places was never allowed, and well-known members of the half world were not allowed in the house. When one knows Paris and knows how much courage it required, and monetary loss it Involved, to insist upon these eliminations, then one can get a bird’s-eye view of the dignity of the house of Worth. It may not have paid, commercially or artistically, but it exists. Now that the firm has closed its historic London house, the Paris creations may become more eminently French, but, so far, there is no evidence of it. Only America matters now with the makers of clothes, and Worth believes, rightly, that there is a large number of Americans who do not like the modern tendency toward girlishness and frivolity in clothes, especially for those whose youth has gone. The evening gowns which he advances for this winter have their cascaded trains lined at the sides with satin in a pale color. Someone who wanted a simple gown from which was eliminated the gewgaws that spot the surface of most of the Watteau frocks, asked Worth if he could make it. His answer was a pinkish red velvet without a' touch of any other color or trimming on it. The deep decolletage was cut in the English man-

ner and held over each shoulder by a band of red velvet ribbon, ending in a bow that stood almost to the ears. It was necessary that the French designers choose chiffon or silk for the best of their afternoon frocks, because they did not have recourse to a variety of fabrics so long as the Germans hold the industrial towns of northern France. True, Rodier, the fabric maker, put up new mills and went on with his work as though the Germans were in

their own country, not his, but France had on hand, and found easy to get, a mass of chiffon, so the fashion was created for frocks of that fabric, and the top coat emphasized an adjunct to them. These chiffon frocks are in entrancing cqjors. There is nothing flamboyant* Green that has gray in it, pale purples, yellow, called orangeade, crow blue, taupe-a-plenty. Moleskin ia revived to trim the taupe-colored frocks, and sealskin is here to touch off the gowns of deep brown and pale gray blue. There are few frocks of heavy materials. They would be unbearable under heavy top coats in this climate, so the woman who wants one good frock that will serve many purposes can be suited easily this season. (Copyright, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Evening Frock of Silver Lace, With Full Plaited Tunic of Pink Satin.