Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — PEASANT LACE IS ADOPTED [ARTICLE]

PEASANT LACE IS ADOPTED

Paris Designers Go to Roumania for Heavy Colored Trimming Used Extensively in That Country. It may be that the Incoming of lace as a powerful fashion for the summer may not bring forth the best of results In costumery. What a woman owns in the way of fine lace she will not cut and reshape except under the lash of conviction that she can do nothing less if she is to make use of her possession, observes a fashion authority. A few of the French designers have gone to Roumania for the heavy string colored lace used by the peasantry, and have built tunic frocks of It, mounting It on slips of bright-colored satin or silk. One tunic that reaches nearly to the ankles is girdled a trifle below the waist, and again above it, with rolled sashes of blue silk, and there is a foundation of this silk to give color through the wide meshes of the coarsely woven lace. Although the finer laces, such as point, Venetian, Bruges, d’Alencon, and their sisters, are used on the handsomer gowns, there is a return to a design that is conspicuously open and appears to be a more artistic sprawling of threads finely knotted together.