Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — VARIETY OF WRAPS [ARTICLE]

VARIETY OF WRAPS

Short Garments Are Made Like Attenuated Dolmans. Um Chiffon of New Egyptian Tissue, Satin Lined or Trimmed With Fur. and Embroidered Tulle. Every letter from Paris lays stress upon the short wraps. They are made like attenuated dolmans. They are of chiffon, of the new glistening Egyptian tissue, of satin-lined or trimmed with fur and of embroidered tulle. They resemble elaborated scarfs. Some of them tuck In at the waistline in the back and drop long in the front; others go over the front of the figure in surplice fashion, wrap around the waist and tie with a huge bustle bow at the back. They are Worn In the afternoon over thick frocks; they are worn in the evening over half decollete frocks; they have taken the place of many short, separate Jackets for street wear, and they are seen at all the performances in the theaters and at the opera, as well as in the restaurants. They are not removed. They are intended as a half-concealing, half-revealing and altogether subtle and attractive garment. A woman will come into a restaurant with a dull lavender gown of satin, beaded and cut out half low at the neck, with the arms bare from six inches below the shoulders, and the whole top of the figure and gown will be covered by a short, draped, shirred wrap with sleeves of cornflower blue tulle, the ends of which may be weighted with Chinese tassels in black, gold and yellow. There are dolmans of black satin lined with fur, and others that have bands of kolinsky or ermine which form a collar and outline the long, pear-shaped armholes that often serve without sleeves. And again and again, the fur or the Egyptian beaded embroidery or metallic tissue is used to hold in these short wraps at the waistline and to form a bow or ends at the side or the back.