Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1918 — ONE PIECE SLIPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE PIECE SLIPS

Direirtoire Frocks Look as Though Grafted on Egyptian. Girdled High Under the Bust, Having Short Sleeves and a Slight Round Neck—Short Hair. In the reaction toward the dlrectolre, which has come about through the influence of many designers, there is a return to the classicism that was insisted upon by Mme. Tallien and Josephine in the days of the directolre. You remember, recalls a fashion correspondent, that these two <women established simplicity and, history says, seminudity, as a protest to the extraordinary frivolity of the gowns of Marie Antoinette. Our fashfonable women have already adopted the short hair which these

two brought into fashion in France, and which was called the “coiffure a la victime.” Today the hair is worn pulled up on top of the head, sometimes ending in a mass of ringlets, as was the fashion of the dlrectoire, when the short locks were considered a badge of honor. These dlrectoire frocks are one-piece slips, girdled high under the bust, with short sleeves and a slight round neck. Callot makes them to look as though they were dlrectoire grafted on Egyptian—a curious combination indeed.

Frock of printed chiffon, with silver fringe at hem of skirt and chiffon silver scarf, adapted from gowns worn when Napoleon was fighting In Italy. High coiffure has alsol re* turned.