Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — OF DIFFERENT DESIGN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OF DIFFERENT DESIGN

FRENCH AND AMERICAN TAILORED SUITS VARY WIDELY. Women Here Have Accepted Models Popular in France for Two Season*—Width of the Skirt May Be Moderated. Everywhere among the best of the American tailored suits is shown the tendency to elongate the sides of the coat and place the fullness there. There is no material in the front, and in the back the circular part is smoothed out so that the line is graceful and not bunglesome. The French coats, on the contrary, carry the full peplum around the figure on a straight line, and the only irregular line is placed at the hem of the skirt. The latter idea was started by the house of Premet among the first short wide skirts shown, and it was greeted with approval by the designers, but not by the public over here; women thought it savored of a ragged robin effect. Today it is generally accepted, a year after its inauguration, which is the fate of most fashions, really. Rarely does a marked departure from the prevailing thing have more than a lukewarm attention until two seasons have passed. Over here we talk and accentuate Jhe wide Russian skirt as a novelty, whereas every house in Paris showed it last August, and two seasons have come since then. In France, there Is already talk of modifying its width. When we do it here suits will be far better to look at. Women who brought home full skirts from Paris a year ago, and who were persuaded to have them narrowed, are now wondering why they listened to the advice of those who did not look into the future and who were convinced that the narrow skirt

In This Model Jenny Has Used Cut Steel Bands to Accentuate the Dignity and Richness of a Simple Black Velvet Frock.

would never be thrown out; and, yet, today, one cannot even get five dollars, second hand, for a hundred dollar frock that has a yard and a half skirt hem. (Copyright, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)