Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1917 — Gown for Dinner or Evening Wear [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gown for Dinner or Evening Wear

There is no good reason for banishing evening gowns entirely from the scheme of things fashionable. Women will not care to have them as elaborate or splendid as they might be if the shadow of the war were lifted, because they are not in the mood to go to extremes in anythi&g, but it would be a mistake to forego them entirely. Those who can afford to are giving liberally and spending judiciously so as to support business —for business must go on. The luxury of an evening gown has very substantial reasons for indulgence. Fashionable women are ordering gowns that will serve for both dinner and evening wear; a two-in-one propo 1 - sltion that is altogether successful. In these, bodices are higher and more draped than in the regulation evening gown, and arms are at least veiled with sheer fabrics. They will be worn upon any occasion of great social interest, taking the place of the most formal of evening gowns with unquestioned propriety. The lovely frock in the picture is

not of the variety just described —it is an Evening gown pure and simple. Sifnplicity is its distinguishing feature, and “if eyes were made for seeing” this gown is its own excuse for being. It is made of Nile green satin, with a narrow skirt under a tunic. There is an invested plait at each side of the skirt, with a silver medallion set just above it. The bodice is merely a wide, crushed girdle of the satin wrapped easily about the figure. It is joined to the skirt with a piping of the satin and caught up at the waistline with a medallion of silver lace. Narrow bands of satin extend over the shoulders and a fine silk lace edging is set in the top of the bodice. A drapery of net, in the same color as the satin, Ts fashioned into ample, flowing “fl'ngel” sleeves. On each sleeve a silver medallion graces the net where it falls away from the wrist, making exquisite detail in the finish. Just one more silver medallion adds one of those unexpected touches by which genius reveals itself, and it appears where the tunic is caught up and fastened to the skirt at the right side.