Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1915 — VARIETIES OF VELVET FROCKS [ARTICLE]

VARIETIES OF VELVET FROCKS

One May Have Them In Practically Any Design That Occurs to the Fancy. • There are quantities of three-piece velvet costumes whose coats are short, reaching only a little way below the waist line, or of hip length, and either belted or very loose and flaring; and often there are, too. innumerable velvet frocks that have no accompanying coat. These frocks may be of the elaborate sort, part chifTon or lace or silk much trimmed, but newer are the simple, one-piece frocks of velvet, almost untrimmed save for mere touches of fur or embroidery and buttons, made, in fact, with almost exaggerated simplicity, but with careful attention to line. Many of these have high, close collars of the velvet, bordered at the top with fur, or relieved at the top by some white collar arrangement; but these straight up and down all-velvet models, while undeniably chic, are as undeniably too hot for comfort in our overheated buildings and practical only for street wear under fur coats or with small furs. Recognizing this fault, some of the designers have arranged the collar so that from a high, close, velvet choker it may be unbuttoned and turned over into a lace-faced, rolling collar, but even that leaves the all-velvet bodico a very hot affair.