Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — NEWER BLOUSES ARE CLOSED [ARTICLE]

NEWER BLOUSES ARE CLOSED

Garments So Arranged That the Deep* Collar at the Back Need Not Be Disturbed. ' The new blouses are closed in a number of fashions and many of them are ingeniously contrived so that the deep collar at the back need not be disturbed. One model is made with a deep enough V-shaped opening at the front so that it slips over the head—If the head is not too large. This blouse, therefore, has no visible means of closing —or opening. And it is very* pretty and the full front falls in unbroken folds and the deep collar of the back is uninterrupted. And if one puts this blouse on carefully, pulling it smoothly over the hair, it is all very well. A newer , method of getting around the difficulty of the deep collar in the back or the collar across the back, which marks so many of the new blouses, and the desire for the unbroken front, is to slit up the back from the waistline for a few Inches —say five or six. The matter of pulling the blouse over the head is then much simplified, and the results gained are about the same. Moreover, the little buttoned opening at the bottom of the back of the blouse, is, if anything, of decorative value.