Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — Fashion’s Wise Economy. [ARTICLE]

Fashion’s Wise Economy.

Deme Fashion has taken “economy" for her watchword in preparing her winter styles. She uses expensive furs, but she uses them discreetly, a broad band across a narrow panel, a pocket, a crushed collar instead of a wide-spreading cape. She combines serge and satin In many of her most fetching frocks, and what she lacks in over draperies, although ahe still uses them, she makes up for in rows of silk braid or fringe. As a practical garment for street wear in the toll, she brings out the man-tailored, semifitting suit, with do other trimming than silk-braid bindings. arrow-head embroidery and bone or self-covered buttons. Other suit models are less severe, with jackets of fingertip length, uneven around the hem and with fur-trimmed panels.