Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1915 — OLD STYLES REVIVED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLD STYLES REVIVED

PARISIAN MODIBTEff*GO BACK TO PABT CENTURIES. Moyen Age Effect, With Novelties, Is the Latest of Designs—One of the Best of the Results Achieved Is Bhown. There is a designer named Maurer in Paris, whose name is not heralded far and wide, but whose costumes are bought and sold by the most important American houses. An admirable gown she made this season carries out the moyen age effect. It has a green velvet bodice with armholes, shoulders, elbows and hips outlined with a broadly striped silk. There are women who would dislike to have their curves and angles so definitely marked out and brought to notice, but the color effect is good. The striped silk itself is framed in with a narrow edge of gold braid; this manipulation of trimming is one of those trifles that count in clothes and is always gratefully received by the woman who is in search of some ornamentation not commonplace. The skirt beneath this medieval green bodice iJ of biscuit-colored cloth to match in color the barrel-shaped sleeves of biscuit-colored chiffon. There’s novelty for you.

Paquin gets the credit of inventing the leather jacket, but many designers must have followed on her heels quickly, for several of these coats appear under several names. The one that bears her label is of white leather, very thin, collared and cuffed with fur. It buttons straight down the front and has a wide slit pocket at each hip. It is a novelty, of course, like the fascinating little muff that Worth invented. It consists of two small pockets of fur joined in the middle with a fanciful cord. With these Worth in-

troduces long gloves of soft kid, laced at the sides -uid finished with tassels. Ladies wore these when they hunted In the forests with falcons on their wrists, didn’t they? (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newsper Syndicate.)

Green Velvet Bodice Trimmed With Gold Braid, Biscuit-Colored Striped Silk Skirt.