Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — FOULARD MORE WIDELY USED [ARTICLE]

FOULARD MORE WIDELY USED

Dressmakers Contrive Way to Use Material in Frocks Intended for Wear In the Afternoon. Mme. Jenny gets the credit for introducing the combination of white organdie and blue and white foulard. This model did not meet with as much success in the spring as it did later. Those who did not accept it in its entirety built up an adapted gown which was quite successful. There was a knife-pleated skirt of blue foulard, with loose Russian blouse of white organdie, belted, collared and cuffed with the foulard. This is still considered one of the attractive frocks of the season. The majority of women, however, prefer veiling a • foulard frock with dark blue voile. This deadens the design and renders the staring white dot vague and mist-like. The combination of voile and foulard is kept for Informai hours, but the dressmakers now 866 a way in which foulard can be made to serve for the afternoon. This is done by draping it in combination with cream chiffon, using a weave of silk that is dyed in nnusual colors. In one such frock the foulard is in broad stripgjtof cream and old rose. The skirt is made of a separate piece qf the material, with a coin dot border, and the selvedge is allowed to drop at each side in order to show a panel at the cream chiffon skirt, Therq

are loose sleeves of the chiffon, a panel of the foulard at the back and the front of the bodice and a deep collar of the much sought after Van Dyke lace, .