Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — LAST WORD IN SUMMER BLOUSES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LAST WORD IN SUMMER BLOUSES

An elegant blouse of linen, hand embroidered, and an equally smart but less costly model in voile, are among the latest offerings in summer styles. Each of them presents at least one new feature worth considerationrand either of them may be easily made at home. Handkerchief linen in the natural linen color was used for the blouse at the left of the picture, with a heavier linen in a medium shade of blue, and embroidery in white, black and blue floss appearing in the decoration. This blouse has an open throat and a wide sailor collar with rounded corners, piped with blue. Down each side of the front are simulated buttonholes made of the blue linen, and the embroidery design, in the fashionable mode of long stitches, is worked about these buttonholes. Oblong buttons are covered at the top with the natural linen, and the remainder with the blue. The same model is shown in salmon color and retails for something over ten dollars. It is style and hand embroidery which enables this linen blouse to sell for a price four times that of the dainty blouse of voile shown with it. The voile blouse is in the

fashionable chartreuse color, and this peculiar green looks unusually well with white linen In a binding on all the frills. In this blouse all the seams are hemstitched with thread in the color of the blouse. The back portion extends over the shoulders to form a short yoke at the front, and the front pieces are fulled onto this yoke in a hemstitched seam. The long sleeves are shaped into cuffs ending in a frill by rows of hemstitching. There is a high crushed collar of the voile edged with a scant frill and fastened across the front with a narrow stock of black satin. There are frills graduated in width at each side of the front. White linen strips are used for bindings. This model is a happy choice for a slender figure and one of a very few that have been designed with a high collar.