Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — WAISTLINE AND NEW GOWNS [ARTICLE]

WAISTLINE AND NEW GOWNS

Stout Woman Need Not Dispair for There Are Methods by Which Figure May Be Transformed. A waistline is aw essential detail of the newest gowns, notes a fashion writer In the New York Herald. The line may be straight, very much so, especially at the -back, but the girdle, or belt, must be present In one form or another. The effect of the straight line is accomplished by the entire elimination of gathers and fullness, but the gown which hangs straight from the shoulders, beltless, has rather gone out. This is particularly observable in the gowns of voiles and chiffons designed for afternoon wear. Here draped skirts are seen, it is true, but managed in such a manner that the wearer’s slenderness is accentuated rather than obscured. Possibly without exception this idea of draping is in the thinner of materials; certainly nothing heavier than satin and usually of material thin enough to show an underskirt closely fitting the figure. Whatever the skirt may be above, at the hem it is always closer, making more apparent the desired slimness. Even the stout woman need not despair, for many and varied are the methods by which her figure may be transformed and made to appear almost as much of a sylph as her more slender sister.