Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1919 — Spring Styles Favor Airy Blouses [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Spring Styles Favor Airy Blouses

Since separate skirts for spring! have blossomed OUT in airy fabrics—-organ-die, georgette and light erepy silks—there is but one character of blouse to wear with them. AH the signposts of the highways leading springward point to dainty apparel of beautiful texture and ilowerlike coloring. Severity, evep |A tailored-made things is to bp tempered ?by the -sheetness and Cplorfuli ness .fabrics. Restrictions on raw materials are removed and the reaCtion from wartime’s plain and qjiiet dressing, lias set, in. There is a great variety of new styles in blouses and in the materials of which they are made. In cottons there, are examples in batiste, dimity, organdie, net, voile. But for every cotton waist just now thererseem to he two of georgette <wepe—s'uch is- the high regard in whiefl women hold this beautiful fabric. Plaited frills, fine tucks, filet, and other laces sparingly .used are the chief item£ qf ornamentation and "sleeves with a few Continue long. There are some exafhples. in the new models that fasten in the back. The sHpover styles are well represented* nearly always failing to simply slip over, the head and accomplishing their fastening in the

back-or at the sides and A crei>e <le chine-model tb be worn with tailored dr wash skirts appears at the left with plaits at the front and smtill buttons set on in groups. Very small bead and embroidery motifs at each side show the tendency to elaborate even the .tailored waists with a little cheerful color. The deep cuffs, turned hack at the wrist. into which Tile TuTT The most popular of blouse sleeves. In so the tailored models the designer is of two minds apparentlyadiling an unexpected tuucb of frivolity to an otherwise plain style, but this inconsistency is managed cleverly and continues to be charming. " At the right a dressy slipover style is made of crepe georgette. It fastens along the shoulder and at one side. Needlework and beads ’join forces In its decoration. .