Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — DAINTY PATTERNS NO MORE [ARTICLE]

DAINTY PATTERNS NO MORE

Loud Colors and Most Daring of Designs Now Predominate in All Sport Costumes. In general, delicate shades and dainty patterns have vanished from sport costumes. It’s a splash of brilliant color today and the most daring of designs. Gone are the sprays of rosebuds and sprigs of forget-me-nots. Instead we have bjg dots, wide stripes, bold checks and durious Chinese, Japanese and Egyptian symbols. The sheerest of crepes flaunt a design that used to be thought suitable only for a sport fabric. Shantung, so fashionable, is striped in the loudest of colors or shows a big embroidered dot. The crinkled khaki kool, not satisfied with its last season’s beauty, now shows a jacquard design or the widest of fancy stripes. There are cottons with a crepe weave and cottons and tussahs combined, splashed with dots, in colors that fairly dazzle the unprotected eye. Circles, both on cottons and silks, are favorite designs. A white khaki kool shows circles of Chinese blue or steel and another shows citron-colored dots.