Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — FOR HOT WEATHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR HOT WEATHER

SIMPLICITY IN CLOTHES IS NOW MUCH IN DEMAND. And Here It Where the One-Piece Frock Justifies Its Continued Pop-ularity-May Be Made at Home at Small Cost The woman who searches anxiously for clothes that can be slipped into easily in summer weather, avoiding the tedious accessories that are demanded by the usual method of midsummer dressing, finds the one-piece gown a joy, for it Is built on one lining, and that of coarse white net which not only washes but is cool. She can slip the thing over the shoulders, adjust the girdle, and life is simplified. Only the inordinately vain or fastidious woman would imperil her nervous system by exhausting herself in the trifles of dress when the thermometer is making things unpleasant in the morning. Life may demand otherwise for certain hours and occasion, but in the house and before the afternoon, surely then, if at any time, woman should be free from the fret of adjusting a multitude of clothes on her person. Another choice of hot weather frocks which is to be commended as it shows a normal attitude of mind as to what fabrics go with what temperatures, is for two-piece frocks of wash silk in narrow stripes. Blue, yellow, green and lavender against a white background are the selected colors. The smart dressmakers are asking $75 for these costumes, including a belt of the matefial elaborated with pearl buttons, which seem to have suddenly found favor with those wh<Hb fashion clothes because France sent over a black satin coat with a cream lace skirt, the sides outlined with two row's of these white ornaments ; but it is not even necessary for a w’oman to have an especially good seamstress to accomplish one of the “seventy-fives” at a third the price. The blouse is cut like a mannish skirt with plaits in front and back, the sleeves ending in broad turnover cuffs of white silk; the shirt is slight-

ly foil at the waist, and laid in broad horizontal tucks around the figure; the hem clears the floor by so many inches that one wonders if we are to

wait until autumn is established by the calendar before we see the return of the heralded long even skirt The collar is a sweeping affair of white silk that rolls well down over the chest. These gowns have taken the place of the ever popular jersey cloth in the wardrobe of several women who have monotony in the wearying repetition of the same fabric, usually made up in the same manner. ADd an excellent quality of wash silk Is one of the materials which never leave regrets. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

White Voile With Embroidered Serge Vest.