Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1916 — Distinctly a Design for the Matron [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Distinctly a Design for the Matron

% Lightness and sparkle are featured in the fashions of the hour in 1 much of the finery employing tulle, light laces am nets embroidered with paillettes. Older women have the privilege of appropriating to themselves the handsomest laces anti richest fabrics. Besides, they may look to intricacy and beauty of design for effects more permanently fascinating than those accomplished with airy tulle and glittering spangles. A blouse of lace, illus-trated-in the picture above, portrays a combination of lpces with green satin ribbon and band embroidery. in green black and gold that is rich and effective, and distinctly a design for the mature woman. A foundation bodice is made, for this blouse, of narrow val insertions in two patterps. They are set together i» alternating rows, the edge's overcast or “whipped” together by hand. The bodice and sleeves are p-xto separately, and the sleeves, set. in. The bands of insertion are extended into a high collar bound at the top with a fold of green satin. A bupfl ofgreen satin ribbqn, five inches wide, iB set across the front of this ■oundation bodice, Just below the bust “line; terminating *t each side at the inderarm seam.

A barb lace, with deeply scalloped edges, in black, forms an applique about the top of the blouse near the neck. The motifs are chipped O’’ cut apart when necessary to accommodate the curves in the underbodice. Black Chantilly lace about eight or nine inches wide is used to form the overdrapery. ''• It is cut into four lengths, §hd two are required for each side. They are joined by the black silk-embroidered banding, with green and gold worked into the pattern. The ends of the draperies are plaited in at each side of the front and terminate near the girdle in the back, where they purge into the barb lace applique. The waist fastens up the back to the collar with small black satin-covered buttons, and above that with tiny snap fasteners. , The girdle is of black velvet ribbon, terminating at the left side in a short bow and ends.

Short coats mean short skirts —from five to seven inches is the length the designers predict for faU'rlthd Wlfl&Bf street suits. . ... ..