Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1917 — BLOUSES FOR ALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLOUSES FOR ALL

No Radical Style Change From Last Season. Sult Shade* Ate Being Featured Extensively In the Showing of New Fall Blouses—Open-Neck la Favored. Fall blouses are very simple In cut, and there Is no radical style change from last season, with the exception of the smattering of high-neck models developed in tailored or military effects. Sleeves are almost uniformly full length and set in at the regular arm size. The tailored blouses referred to are developed very often in satin, sometimes In dark color, again in light, washable shades. Shirting silks and some liaens are also similarly employed. However, it seems almost safe to predict that most women will still cling to collarless or open-neck blouses. They are unquestionably more comfortable for Indoor wear, and, inasmuch as neckwear departments always show excellent collections of high Stocks of lace,.net, etc., if a high neck is desired it may be arrived at without the effort of actually attaching a collar. In addition to this argument In favor of the collartess blouses, there is the further one that coats and suits fit high about the neck, so that the protection of the high collar blouse is never required.

Sult shades are being featured extensively in the showing of new fall blouses, and flesh or white georgette or blouses, and flesh or white georgette or satin is frequently combined very attractively with georgette in a suit shade, making a blouse that is more dressy and at the same time more generally becoming than one that is in an all-dark tone. A blouse of this type is shown in the sketch herewith. The blouse proper—that is, upper section and sleeves —is of flesh-colored satin, while georgette in a suit shade is used as the combination fabric. If preferred, the two shades of georgette may be

used. An all-satin blouse, combining two shades of satin, is not so effective as when a filmier fabric is used. Either bead t metal thread or silk embroidery may be used as the purely decorative feature. To make this blouse one and a quarter yards of fabric will be required for sleeves and upper part and a half yard of contrasting material for collar and lower section. Fabric in each case is estimated on the basis of a 36-inch width.

Suit Blouse for Early Fall.