Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1916 — IN SUMMER STYLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN SUMMER STYLES

CITY BHOPS HAVE BEGUN TO PROVIDE FOR CUSTOMERS. Adaptations of French Models Are to Be Seen on All Sides—Prevalence of Satin la Viewed With Some Significance. The difference between a slim and a full purse is the only decisive factor in changing clothes. It is to assist those on slender incomes to keep apace with changing fashions that the shops offer, in large quantities, low-priced copies of high-priced models. This work or reproduction has already begun in the large shops of New York. The buyers have been returning from Paris with stocks of French ideas, to help women change their for the summer. In addition to this, the towns are flooded with cheap copies and adap-

Black Velvet and White Straw Motor Cap, tied Under the Chin With Narrow Velvet Ribbon. tations of the French models that came over here In the spring. Some of the adaptations are admirable and suit the masses far better than the frocks which were made in Paris and which were intended as suggestions to

buyers rather than offerings to individual women. We are now able to select in the thin fabrics, suitable for summer, a vast variety of gowns -and suits that originally appeared in dark and thicker materials. As an example of this, there Is the immense output of satiQ clothes since the middle of May. This altogether delightful fabrie was not especially featured in the February and March models, but the French mills have turned out great quantities of It In the early spring, for Paris has been sending over her newest ideas worked out in satin for two months. The incoming of this material is re* ceived with satisfaction and it has significance. Satisfaction comes from the fact that satin is cool, easily pressed and serves several purposes. The significance lies in the fact that satin does not lend itself to outstanding drapery, and the limpness with which it falls against the figure suggests that our new clothes may have fullness, but not extension. Strange to say, taffeta has given way to satin for day usage, but it holds Its own for the evening. Women who dress well are buying morning frocks of dark-blue and stone-gray charmeuse. These are made with the simplicity that now characterizes the best of French gowns for French women, and they present a most alluring contrast to the overtrimmed and- overlooped gowns that have been offered us for a year. They have small bodices, usually fastened down the front with satin covered buttons, sometimes in the color of the gown, again, in an opposing color. The long, slightly loose, sleeves are finished with turned-over cuffs of white organdie, often built up from three and four layers, which is a Cheruit trick of -trimming a sleeve that was advanced two years ago. One of the prettiest of the motor caps offered to devotees of the “machine” Is shown in the illustration. (Copyright, 1816, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)