Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1918 — Trim Blouses for the Business Girl [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Trim Blouses for the Business Girl

There are many kinds of trim blouses for the business girl (and nearly all the girls of today are filling their time with some sort of business) to wear with her trim tailored suit. . Some of them are so new in design that we have not seen their like before, and many, of them are like the blouses of other seasons, except that they have a touch of “this season’s style” stamped on them in the shaping of the collar or -the management of their trimming, or in the construction of the blouse. Making one garment do the work of two is an idea that has found favor this spring, and we have with us the waistcoat blouse. It is the natural outcome for blouses in a season whose coats are nearly all fashioned open at the front where they reveal the blouse. Separate waistcoats to be worn with these open coats made their appearance, usually in pique or wash satin, worn over the blouse. Then came the waistcoat-blouse; a waistcoat of white satin combined with a blouse of georgette crepe in white or color, the two made Into one garment. Another waistcoat-blouse is developed in white voile in the effect of a little coatee with waistcoat, roll collar and cuffs of white pique. Speaking of roll collars, they distinguish the reason and prove universally becoming. They appear in all the materials used for blouses and in pique. They are high at the back and usually long in the front. Collar and cuff sets of satin, pique or organdie are sold separately and worn with coats or attached to blouses where they fulfill their purpose as a finish and serve to brighten the coat suit. Georgette crepe, voile, organdie, batiste, linen and wash satin are the materials that make the cool and lovely blouses of this season. Straight and

cross tucks, narrow frills and plaiting*, sometimes in contrasting colors, and the Introduction of fine ginghams id collars and cuffs are characteristic dec* orations for them. The blouse pic* tured is of georgette with very fine tucks in rows at each side of the front. Cross tucks set in at the front or collar and cuffs of cross-tucked organdie set onto a plain blouse are easy for the home dressmaker to manage, especially as she may baste these finishing touches to a blouse and let the hem-stitcher do the rest.