Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1919 — Planned for the Warmer School Days [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Planned for the Warmer School Days

The two youthful and pretty dresses pictured above could never be mistaken for anything other than they are. Everything about them spells practical and tasteful style for the girl in her teens, and at the beginning of those crowded and lively years—anywhere from twelve to sixteen years. As in nearly all the frocks for young girls, the skirts are, plain and wide enough to allow perfect freedom, without being bulky. They are almost aa long as some of those worn by grownups. terminating in three-inch hems, about six taches.or a little more above the ankles. The dress at the left has a slip-over middy in a good style for a slender girl. It has a shallow yoke with round, plain neck that extends ewer the shoulders and top of the arm. This widens the figure. The body of the middy is gathered Into this and there are long plain sleeves with turnback cuffs. There are delightful and practical patch pockets set on even with the bottom of t£e middy, haying • turn-over band at the top finished

with small pearl buttons. A narrow belt of patent leather, run through slides made of the cloth, fastens at the front with a small black buckle. The model, shown at the right was designed for cotton cloth but would make a handsome suit In jersey—* either wool or silk. It is cut on. the dines of a middy but is one of those new designs that manage to be like two-Ini-one garments, with its overgarment having revers at the front and an opening which extends part way down and fastens' with large pearl buttons. The sleeves flare a little at the wrists and the turned-back cuffs, like the revers are made of white percale or other heavy white cotton goods, while the dress is in a color. Slides of the material on each of these dresses support the narrow patent leather belts, fastened with buckles, that make so smart and practical a finishing touch on these frocks.