Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — Heavy Brocades. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Brocades.

Brocades, indeed all materials, have, strangely enough, a stiffness not so suggestive of youth as the frocks of which they are fashioned. Fabrics, notably the failles and grosgrains, show metal medallions which heretofore have not had a youthful appearance. Yet so subtle is the art of looms of today that these brocades are of a lightness and piquancy of design which make them adaptable to youthful frocks, says Vogue. In the more dignified gowns, brocades of all sorts —some in the scroll patterns, some in allover patterns, and some merely with a large medallion on a background of grosgrain—will be used, but not to the exclusion of velvet or of the plain taffetas.