Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1919 — COPY WAISTCOATS OF MEN [ARTICLE]

COPY WAISTCOATS OF MEN

Garments Donned by Fastidious Beaux of Other Days Now Charming Fashion for Women. Waistcoats and waistcoat blouses are among the newest fashions from Paris, and are one more of the many charm! ng old-fashioned modes whi ch have been adapted to present-day styles. This particular fashion was taken from the clothes worn, not by the women, but by the men of long ago, for waistcoats of varied and brilliant -fabrics were the garments most delighted in by the fastidious beaux of other days. No less varied and fanciful are the waistcoats of today. They are made in the most delicate of chiffons, as well as in such wool materials as these times offer. Some of them consist of a front section of metal brocade which shows dhly when the coat is open, and others are made like a blouse, with sleeves of chiffon or crepe de chine, and with back and front of brocade or satin. _ • - - Waistcoats of this kind are word with a suit, and when the coat is open they look much more substantial and effective than the ordinary blouse. Without the coat they make a onepiece costume of the suit, and one is not aware of any lack of harmony such as usually results from the use of an ordinary blouse and the suit skirt.