Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1916 — DRESS FOR SUMMER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DRESS FOR SUMMER

DECREE 18 THAT SPORTS CLOTHES ARE TO RULE. For the Majority of Women It Means an Increased Expenditure for the Wardrobe —Gay Colors to Be in Order. In other days dressmakers did not smile when women insisted that they would wear informal clothes throughout the summer. This meant a number of white duck skirts made at home, shirtwaists aplenty that were

picked up here and there, one sweater that was bought for five dollars at a department store and one hat, if any, that did not represent much of an outlay in money. But today the prophecy that sports clothes will rule for the next four

months brings a look of ecstasy into the faces of all who sell woman’s apparel, for along this path lie riches. Sports clothes are de luxe this season. No woman will content herself with one such costume; she will buy as long as her money holds out. This is the reason for the smile that the dressmakers and the shopkeepers wear. Each week Is taxed to its ut* most in turning out a dozen or more new suggestions, and for all such bait there is not only a nibble but a goodsized bite. Women who have indulged in one tailored suit for the spring, which they intended to make serve through the autumn, are buying four suits with much paraphernalia many accessories to match. The wearing of sports clothes keeps you in the atmosphere, say Newport and Bar Harbor, and the woman who has never even wielded a racket at the Casino in Newport or gone on a picnic to Jordan’s pond in Bar Harbor, is, nevertheless, getting ready to adorn herself with flaunting awning skirts, tennis shoes, gay sweaters and colored stockings. All that she is aßked to do is sit serenely in the sunshine in her plumage of a paroquet so that she will not make a discordant note in the junglelike riot of colors. Green and black checks are widely used for sports suits made of cloth, also for top coats. Women who play golf a good deal are making a run for a suit with a slightly rippling skirt and a short jacket, made of bright green and black checked homespun; there is also a two-inch belt of the sturdiest black grained leather with a silver harness buckle. (Copyright, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Golf Coat and Skirt. Coat of Black Jersey and Black and Yellow Checked Skirt.