Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1918 — EASY TO MAKE THINGS OVER [ARTICLE]

EASY TO MAKE THINGS OVER

Women Have No Excuse for Not 1 Remodeling and Wearing Some of Last Year's Garments. Never have the possibilities for making over been better, says a fashion writer. Loose panelas and combinations of materials give no woman an excuse for not wearing last year’s frock. There are any number of new effects in draperies and the clever one will be able to adapt them to her material and figure. One should be able to make an old frock into a new one without batting an eye. Fringe is going to be a great help. But, while fringe is and will be worn a lot, there are braids which are quite as stylish. There is little in the line of fancy trimming which has not been wrought by hand in wools. The trimmings and general ornamentation of clothes are giving us enough variety to serve us, but not much garishness. They are showing ingenuity in hand touches other than wool embroidery. There are cordings and tuckings and all of the new garments are likely to show arrow heads. Nearly every one likes arrow heads and no woman who can do neat work at all, need feel afraid to undertake, them. Colors are sufficiently varied, without being the types which clash; no matter how they are combined their softness is their charm. And so there is the chance even in furs, that most expensive part of a woman’s gowning, to lend variety, without confusion and without extravagance.