Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1919 — GINGHAM IS IN HIGH FAVOR [ARTICLE]

GINGHAM IS IN HIGH FAVOR

Lavender and White, Rose and White and Blue and White Among the Favorites. Dame Fashion may be a fickle Jade In some respects, but sometimes she has the good sense to be true to something well worth wliile rather longer than we expected her to. Take gingham for instance. She first fancied It as a material for smart summer frocks late in the summer of 1917. As we all expectedjit it lasted over—this whijn—till the summer of' 1918, and, though it became immensely popular, it was not run to the ground as fashions that become immensely popular so often are. To be sure, good quality ginghams were so high in j>rice that it was saved from looking cheap, but still gingham ’dresses were so generally worn by women of all classes z who wished to be smartly attired in warm weather that one could-hardly call the idea exclusive as it was whqn it was first launched. And the amazing thing is that as plans for thin frocks are laid gingham

is In high honor. The only trouble I» that ginghams are not ohiy dear, but) scarce. Perhaps that will help to make it fashionable—just as furs have never* been so indispensable to the woman of fashion as when the war sent their price soaring. There will be dresses made entirely) of gingham and dresses made of thia white fabrics trimmed with gingham. Then there will he considerable use of, gingham in blouses, some of the smartest of these being made of some sheer white fabric with plaid or checked gingham for collars and cuffs and’ pipings. Lavender and white. rose and white and blue ami white will be favorite combinations, and these will be es-‘ pecially attractive worn with the new so-called sport skirts made of silk.