Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1916 — BUTTONS USED IN MANY WAYS [ARTICLE]

BUTTONS USED IN MANY WAYS

Pronounced Feature of the Season’s Styles Is a Thing That Has to Be Recognized. Buttons are not at all left In the lurch because of the amount of handwork used. In fact, they serve to ac : centuate the special feature of the waist, coat or suit they adorn. Buttons increase the importance of pockets, belt and capes and give themselves a chance to assume extraordinary shapes and sizes. Because of the vogue for dark suits with white hats, shoes or gaiters, white Ivory buttons are allowed. Sometimes they are ringed with black or a fashionable color, sometimes they have a pearl center, but all of them are light in weight, and that accounts for at least part of their popularity. They are also made on dark taffeta dresses. Those used on coats and suits are more conservative, mushroom and saucer shapes being the most popular. Balls, squares and cubes are also employed, as well as acorns. Pearl buttons come in all sizes and shapes, from the large ball buttons, appropriate for novelty suits, and the flat styles for separate skirts, to the tiny ones for ' shirtwaists. Heavy colored materials snake use of ribbed buttons. Checked suits may be for tbo> plain and checked button, as wall

as the black and white effects In combinations with white riyns. Among the new colors shown is a French gray button to match the shade now so popular in dresses. A ring of black is often used to enhance its beauty.