Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1917 — INFORMAL DINNER GOWN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INFORMAL DINNER GOWN

Given soft satins and filmy laces to work with what designer of woman’s clothes can resist draperies and frills? Satin, when It falls in folds, plays with the light.and reveals all the beauty of color, and lace has always some charming story to tell. The most is made of them both in the handsome dinner gown pictured here. In the bodice very sheer black net is posed over white lace and bordered with narrow bands of black paillettes. Over this satin Is wrapped about the figure in a drapery high as one side and terminating in, long- sash ends. These are knotted below the waistline and hang to the bottom of the skirt, weighted with a handsome ornament made of beads. The skirt is gathered at the waist and draped at the sides. It is shorter than the underpettlcoat, which is finished with a frill of lace.