Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1919 — Summery Afternoon Frocks [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Summery Afternoon Frocks

Pretty, old-fashioned patterns in printed cottons have come back. The voiles and crepes of today, which are now on display in the shops, and have been for some time foreshadowing midsummer, remind one of the lawns and chailies and the popular calico of long ago, in their colorings. They are softer and more sheer than their pred,ecessors and the resemblance Is not In texture, but in the printed patterns, that make these inexpensive dress materials interesting. The prices on -cottons appear to be settling to something like normal again. There are printed voiles very much like printed georgette in pattern and ethers that are copied after ginghams. Besides these, plain colored voiles embroidered in white or in contrasting color, manufactured in dress patterns end in flouncings, promise a summer ih which everyone will wear this cool end attractive and very durable material Designers who understand how to adapt styles to fabrics are responsible for the two delightfully simple frocks that are shown here. At the left a blue and white color combina-

tion shows a leaf pattern scattered over a very small check as a background. The bodice in this unpretentious dress is almost plain, with collar and cuffs of white organdie edged with narrow lace. There is a prim little bow with long ends, made of narrow ribbon placed at the throat. It is in the same shade of blue as that in the voile. The skirt is full with plaits that form a drapery on the hips and it joins the bodice with a soft, crushed girdle of the voile. Tiny white buttons, set close together, extend from bodice to skirt at each side. The low canvas shoes and thin white stockings look so well worn with this frock that they make any other kind a second choice. r The other dress pictured is made of voile, printed in a small, all-over pattern, in light brown. Its bodice opens in surplice fashion and fastens with two buttons. Collar and’cuffs of white organdie add their indispensable to it. Tlie skirt is plaited and has a long tunic about the sides and back, ending in a hem with two tucks above it. A cording is let in the material to define the top of the tunic.