Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1918 — FRONTS ARE QUITE ALLURING [ARTICLE]

FRONTS ARE QUITE ALLURING

Sleeveless Gulmpes Appear to Have Favor for Summer WeanShould Be Cool. There always seems to be something hypocritical and of the poseur type about a sleeveless “front” which is only supposed to show one face to the world at large, but this spring the shops abound with these make-believe blouses —for Indeed one must call them that, notes a fashion writer. At least they should be cool, and, after all, there may not be the least occasion to remove one’s street jackets from the time one leaves home to the time one returns; but, personally, the scribe admits a predilection for * blouse that would not embarrass her if some emergency made it essential to doff temporarily the jacket There. Is an incomplete sensation somehow in the wearing of an incomplete garment—a garment that could not bear the light of day in public if anything did happen to make ft necessary to

remove one’s coat. Yet in. themselves these tricky “fronts” are quite alluring, particularly one of blue and white checked organdie with tiny plisse frills of plain blue organdie up and down the front and around a collar that turns over the top of the jacket. There are even the georgette and chiffon guimpes of the sleeveless sort, and tucked organdie and batiste models — all designed to look like the same thing, a really-truly blouse of conventional sort under one’s jacket; „