Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1919 — A Triumph in Summer Dress [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Triumph in Summer Dress

Anyone may be excused for enjoying the talent that can take two such familiar -fabrics- as embroidered net and eyelet embroidery and convert them into a dress as unusual and distinguished as that pictured here. It Is this ingenuity in making the best that can be made of materials that delights the critic of dress, more than anything else. Whoever designed this altogether charming dress for a summer day, showed a positive genius for adapting simple means to a triumphant end and has achieved a pretty masterpiece. This dress, which is just all that one could ask for, is made of goods that are washable, and while it lasts will therefore be able to add freshness to Its other beauties. It has, a straight skirt bordered at the bottom with a ■wide band of eyelet embroidery which Is joined to a plain petticoat of fine lawn or batiste. The band of embroidery used for this deep border is hemmed up along one edge. The other edge is trimmed off, the portion trimmed away including the row of round eyelets that finish the embroidery pattern on each edge. This row of eyelets appears in the girdle and in the seams of the coat. The long straight coat is of net with a figure scattered over it, a simple embroidered motive. It has also a deep

border of the eyelet embroidery at tne bottom and pointed pockets of it set on at each side. The introduction of the eyelet embroidery in seams is a touch that tells in this design. The long net sleeves have a narrow band of eyelet embroidery at the waist and the girdle is made of it. Narrow black grosgrain ribbon, in two lengths is fastened to the eyelet girdle at the right side and looped to the center of the front. It is free to fall in two ends from these. This is the final quiet touch to a dress that has the refinement of white and marvelously clever designing to make it the envy of more pretentious rivals. The hat and shoes to be worn with it are obliged to measure up to its excellence; to be of the same character.