Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Airy Fabrics Travel in Pairs [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Airy Fabrics Travel in Pairs

Airy fabrics travel in pairs in this year’s midsummer frocks. Colored voile and swiss organdie, white net colored orga.ndie, net and filmy laces, go hand in hand and refuse to be separated. “United we stand and invite your consideration,” in frocks, parasols and hats and no one will resist the combination of frock and parasol to match made of voile and swiss organdie. In the picture there is the union of white net and fine blue organdie, in a beautiful afternoon dress, to bring home this enchanting blending of two transparent fabrics, to our sense of harmony. The plain net skirt is faced up with the organdie in a deep hem, widened at the front and back into two long points. There is a narrow drop of net above the organdie hem and a wide band of it—finished with the smallest of hem —

about the middle of the skirt. The organdie points appear again on-the net collar. Only tucks —nothing more, narrow in width', are placed in groups of parallel rows on the waist, sleeves, belt and peplum. But a row of crochet buttons at each side of the front of the Waist shows that the designer heeds the mandates of fashion even when creating something entirely hew in net frocks. The buttonless dress might be considered impossible. A slip of white or colored organdie is to be worn under a frock of this kind. Cotton voile and swiss organdie are already pledged to one another and will meet the fortunes of life together in other midsummer frocks this season. Lace is Inconstant and is found in the company of net and voile, organdie and crepe or any other of the sheer materials.