Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1916 — SKIRTS TO BE PRACTICAL [ARTICLE]

SKIRTS TO BE PRACTICAL

New Models Show Some Changes, Though Designers Have Not Put Out Anything Extreme. Plaited skirts showing papels of plaits at front and back Or at the sides accomplish the required flare without ungainly bulk. This type of skirt promises well, especially the_ box-plaited variety, which will be in vogue this fall. Now there is a Jaeir skirt which interests rather than pleases. It is barrel shaped and encircled' with many bands, which give It the resemblance which occasions the name. This is slightly different from the skirt with a flare at the bottom and the wired hip. Another trimmed skirt is called the lamp shade. It consists of alternate layers of taffeta puffs thinly wired and wider puffs of net or chiffon. The whole resembles most accurately the silk lamp shade of days before the arts and crafts era. In the same line of pretty summer frocks are costumes made of cotton voile or organdie, trimmed with lovely girdles of silk and ribbon. Wide ribbons swathe the waistline and are sometimes used to make panniers. Sometimes two colors are twisted to form the girdle and end of a sash, while a third color is used for the knot.