Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — Smart, Cool and Neat [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Smart, Cool and Neat

Here is the last word in the tailored blouse and separate skirt for utility wear and it is a very creditable last word. It isn’t likely that anything better will be developed for the work-a-day outfitting of the average busy woman of today, although we may have equally good designs in both blouses and skirts for the same sort of wear. Neatness is the keynote in this kind of outfitting and it is the most potent charm of summer dressing. The blouse is a strictly “shirtwaist” model, made of white wash-satin which" proves to be very practical and desirable. It is one of the few designs with a high neck and buttons straight up the front, and collar with small white pearl buttons. The cuffs button over with a single button and the waist will look well developed in wash silk, percale and other substantial weaves in cotton. The skirt Is simply two lengths of 54-inch wool material cut to fit about the hips and without plaits. The wide,

shaped girdle Is pointed at the end where it buttons over a large bone button at the left of the front. Snap fasteners above and below the button hold the belt In a neat adjustment to the figure. This girdle Is the most popular that has appeared this season. The skirt is correct in length and width for a walking skirt, which should be in the neighborhood of two yards wide to Insure freedom in walking, and reach an inch below the shoe tops for good style. In cutting a two-piece plain skirt from wide material there is enough cut away to account for the girdle and pockets as ample, and original as those that are shown on the model pictured. Twice the depth of the pocket is needed for making it, one-half of this length cut into two straps that fold upon the pocket and fasten down with bone buttons like that on the girdle, but smaller. The straps and pockets are lined with silk of the color of the crossbar in the material. In this skirt a deep tan ground is crossed with bars of flhg blue.