Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — CHANGES SEEN IN SLEEVES [ARTICLE]

CHANGES SEEN IN SLEEVES

They Have Been Becoming Narrower and Have Been Gradually Shedding All Fullness at Top.

Sleeves have undergone a certain amount of change. They are narrower than they were, and are gradually shedding all fullness a-top and becoming almost tight-fitting over the forearm. An innovation to be noted now and again is a tendency to swirl about the arm, principally to be met with in quite thin materials. Sleeves are often a contrast both in fabric and color to the bodice or the bolero of which they are the complement* nor are they set into its armholes, but come from underneath them. In some cases such bodices or boleros will be given a short pair of its .own to boot, sometimes hardly more than a cap for the shoulder, sometimes reaching midway to the elbow, leaving the rest of the arm to be encased in a sort of long lace mitten fitting closely to the .forearm and widening out at the fop.