Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — OPEN NECKS WILL REAPPEAR [ARTICLE]

OPEN NECKS WILL REAPPEAR

Warmer Weather Certain to Bring More Comfortable Apparel Into Use, According to Writer. Many of the eton street dresses are most attractive. They can be worn over blouses Or over sleeveless guimpes or with the skeleton waistcoats referred to above. These waistcoats are being made of satin and figured silks and of rich and beautiful materials to give a touch of color to the favorite dark blue costumes*. For every-day use, however, the simple white blouse of washable satin or of organdie or of handkerchief lawn Is well liked, and a great many of these blouses are made with the round collars that once we knew as Peter Pan. although there is something of a tefidency toward the revival of the high stock, and with the coming of the warmer weather we shall see open necks m generous numbers: • We will, do a great deal for fashion and we will do still more for the needs of the "country, observes a fashion writer, but it is a proven fact that women who have grown accustomed to the comfort of the rolling collars are exceedingly slow to accept to any great extent a fashion which calls for swathed throats, for open necks have conserved health as well as comfort.