Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1918 — Good Designing in Separate Skirt [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Good Designing in Separate Skirt

Those very handsome separate skirts that came in along with rich, new fabrics for summer set a pace for elegance and style that is not easy to keep up But the separate skirts for fall measure up to their standard, which is saying more for these heavier skirts -than could ever be said before. Many of the new skirts are made of cloths woven especially for them. These goods are plain, with borders in wide or narrow bands in contrasting colors, or patterned with wide bands in alternating colors over all their surface, or bordered with cross-bar bands, or perfectly plain. Now’ that the looms are busied with the affair of the separate skirt we may expect revelations in fine designing. In all the new models pockets, large buttons and novel girdles—nearly always w’ide —are style features On which designers have centered attention. In wool goods for plain skirts, jersey cloth remains a favorite and in silk poplin is not outrivaled as yet, although tricot may soon take the

lead. The skirt shown in the picture is an example of good designing in a separate skirt since it is modish and good looking. It is of rose-colored w’ool jersey with slit pockets on each side, finished at their edges with double rows of machine' stitching. The skirt is gathered with a little fullness at the front and more at the sides and hack, to a moderately wide waistband. It fastens at the left side where the wide tab extending from the top of the girdle is fastened down with a snap fastener.