Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — VOILE DRESSES ARE FAVORED [ARTICLE]

VOILE DRESSES ARE FAVORED

Fabric of More Substance and Lasting Quality Brings This Material to the Forefront Next in favor to the organdies come the new voile dresses. .There Is a tendency at this season to employ fabrics of a little more substance and lasting quality, and for this reason If for no other we begin to see great number of voile and georgette frocks. A good voile dress much admired brings out several of the latest notions —the modified medic! collar, the sleeveless moyen age blouse and the side panels of contrasting colors. As the body of the dress is of white voile, blue is used for contrast and develops the features just mentioned. The medic! collar on this frock is really more reminiscent of that high flaring fashion than actually the thing Itself, as it is a narrow strip only, rolling, however, high up at the back of the neck to finish in that line so becoming to most women and without which often the handsomest robes seem incomplete. It is of alternating strips of the blue and the white voile and ornamented with French knots, blue on the white and, for contrast, white on the blue, and it becomes the merest point in front where it rolls away from the throat