Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1919 — Corduroy Kimonos. [ARTICLE]

Corduroy Kimonos.

Some new kimonos shown in some of the -shops are a strange combination bf style and fabric. They are Japanese kimonos made of corduroy. But when you come to think of it, wouldn’t they be delightfully comfortable? Think of wrapping one of them around you some cold winter day when the necessary restrictions in coal make the thermometer lower than comfort calls for. That is probably what their makers thought of. And so although, kimonos of blue arid rose cordutoy embroidered with silk chrysanthemums seem a bit of a strange efemtination and contrast still they are delightful concession to cold that 1S coirilngT - “ 7