Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — SOME LACES FOR SPRING [ARTICLE]

SOME LACES FOR SPRING

Afternoon Dresses and Lingerie Frocks to Be Worn. , ■ ■■■ ■ 1 1,111 T ' 'T . . . _ * American Loom. Product* Are Now Taking the Place of Weave* That Were Formerly Imported. C , —i i—. Lace afternoon dresses and lingerie frocks are to be worn this spring, according to some indications. At an exhibition held recently some of the most attractive gowns made from or in combination with American-made laces were shown. The adaptability of the American manufacturer was here very clearly demonstrated, for the laces included most of the best known varieties — cluny, venlse, net and filet. As to the gowns, they could honestly be called successful. One especially attractive model had a one-sided draped waist which showed the lace Linder and over the chiffon which was used for. the gown. Lingerie dresses are in flesh colored and pale tinted fabrics, and tinted as well as white laces are used with them —also little insects of embroidery for summer wear are the voiles and tinted voiles, with soutache braiding in patterns which are conventional in design for the most part, no matter how much ground they may cover. For trotter .frocks and street wear in general, are frocks of silk jersey, some of which show a clever use of flat braid, applied closely in rows. Dark blue, taupe, and black are the usual colors, and the braiding usually matches rather than contrasts with the dress. Button-up-the-back dresses, wide braided girdles and models with high collars are new or old features of this season's gowns, Just as you choose to look at It. Pongee was used for a spring suit, which was embellished with braiding and further boasted of a dotted foulard vest, with the conventional points jn the front. The braiding ran up ahd down both sides of the front and around on the skirt part of the coat. In spite of all this decoration the colors matched exactly except for the white spot 6 on the vest, and the simple lines helped to give the desired air of simplicity. Midnight blue satin was the material chosen fori a three-piece suit which was cut with a short bobbed-off Eton jacket and wide sleeves cut off at the wrists. The crepe was used again for the top .of the dress, which was straight up and dow T n and collarless. Cuffs and collar on the jacket were of peacock blue, and worn with this costume was a hat covered with peacock feathers.

and that fact must be taken Into consideration. Undoubtedly, stocks with jabots will be worn to a great extent upon the street during the early season and there will be a good many of the high neck blouses worn under the eton coats, but just as soon as the temperature rises to any considerable extent, the open necks will reappear.