Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1916 — STYLES IN BLOUSES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STYLES IN BLOUSES

WIDE CHOICE BOTH IN MATERIALS AND FABHIONING. Georgette Crepe Continues a Close Second to Chiffon In Favor — White Silk Net Much Used by Smart Dressmakers. Ever since the mill people learned to make chiffon cloth that was trans-. parent and serviceable, women have gladly accepted it for blouses. Often they adopt the French trick of putting in a shoulderless lining of flesh-colored or white lace* and this, like many other things founded on the French knowledge of thrift and economy, keeps the garment in better condition and makes it give longer service. This lining is loose and is made like a deep girdle, and instead

of attaching it in even the flimsiest way to the outside fabric, it is better to give it shoulder straps of narrow, flesh-colored satin ribbon. As a rival to chiffon cloth, georgette crepe has proven the most successful fabrlo. Its predecessors were failures, but it serves the need. It will remain In fashion as far ahead as a prophet can see, and yet It is having to share the honors of the hour with several other fabrics that have been brought to the front. Fine, colored muslins, solid and

striped, are in the forefroiit of fashion, and white and colored organdies, which have bedn so extensively used for neckwear, have been cordially taken up by the makers of blouses, The plain white organdie waists art embroidered with one or more colors, sometimes in the simple and everpleasing design of scallops, again in polka dots and triangles of brilliant red and blue, green, black, and yellow. Because polka-dot frocks are in fashion, we will be able to wear separate blouses of polka-dot fabrics with the pleased feeling that we are quite in the middle of the picture. Taffeta and satin are not looked upon with any degree of warmth, but taffeta 1b applied to chiffon and then embroidered in gold and silver, to build up an ornate blouse. White silk net of such a thinness of weave that one is caused to mistake it for tulle, has crept downward in the scale of dressing from a ball gown to a blouse. Its acceptance by the smart dressmakers for this purpose leads the way for the new nets that have come over from France for gowns, such as point d’esprit and the net with the square or dot woven in it. The former is especially attractive for a blouse to be worn with a thin serge or silk suit. Everyone knows by this time that the smartest of French blouses drops over the skirt instead of going under it, after the manner of a miniature Russian blouse. Cheruit sent this out in white organdie, with a sash of colored silk, and it has led the way for a dozen other conceptions by our own dressmakers. ' ’ One of the most successful ways in which it has been copied is in colored silk jersey, touched up with a simple embroidered design in other brilliant colors, and held in by a wide belt of knitted silk like a man’s cravat, fastened with a large, oblong silver buckle. Some of these blouses are in white with a Pierrot design of black embroidery, but others, intended for country wear, are of yellow, turquoise blue, and apple green. They fasten down the left side in a straight line from shoulder to hem and have a loose, mufflerlike collar and also fastens at the side, under the left ear. ,■ The majority of the sleeves are long in the summer blouses, as well as loose, and end in an ornamental cuff. They are Just as apt to have a high neck as a low neck. (Copyright, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Dainty Blouse of White Organdie With Collar and Cuffs Embroidered in Light Blue.