Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1916 — USES OF GABERDINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USES OF GABERDINE

FABRIC IS EMPLOYED IN VARIETY OF GARMENTS. Handsome and Dependable, It Has Full Right to Its PopularitySketch Shows One of the Latest Tailored Models. Gaberdine is a fabric leader this year. It is used for suits, coats, dresses and separate skirts, and is shown in all the season’s fashionable shades. It is a very dependable fabric. and deserves its popularity. Gabardine is tight-woven, with a fine hard twill, and while its texture is soft, it generally holds a “press” well, and is therefore admirable for the

many-plaited skirts and dresses developed this season. The smart suit here illustrated employs gaberdine as Its choice of fabrics. The well-fitted skirt, which has abundant fullness without exaggerated flare, is laid in wide box plaits, two In front, one centering the back. This type of skirt accords with advance style bulletin. For the early fall a generally closer-reefed assemblage of apparel is looked for. The tailored model shown in the sketch requires six yards of gaberdine. Three-quarters of a yard of faille silk is needed for the collar and revers, if a seam at the center of the back Is not objected to. If it is desired that the revers and collar piece be seamless, double this quan-

The suit as designed is of dove gray, with collar and buttons matching in shade. As will be noted, a two-inch bias piece of the suit’s fabric trims and gives “body" to the skirt’s edge, and at each plait a matching bias section is set on to a depth of ten Inches, and is button-trimmed. The slashed revers and collar are cut in one. While the coat is in silhouette a single fitting affair, a trifling bit of fullness is shown all around. The peplum, barely hip-point length, flares smartly, and is equipped with sizable saddle-bag pockets. The sleeves are bell-shaped and buttontrimmed. “ Minor style touches are of great importance in designing suits or other garments of the tailored type. Lack of them leaves the suit characterless and ultra severe, and going to the other extreme is dangerous, as a hodge-podge may result that will characterize the garment Instantly as amateurish. A not-to-be-overlooked feature of the present season’s tailored suits and coats Is the exceeding beauty of the linings selected. Injspite of pessimistic rumors concerning silk shortage and dye famines, linings, so far, certainly show no signs of having suffered. —Washington Star.

tlty is necessary. Two yards of 36-fnch-wide silk are needed to line the coat

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