Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — Good-Looking Work-a-Day Dresses [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Good-Looking Work-a-Day Dresses

Just as our daily bread compares to cake so morning or house dresses .compare to more dressy clofhes for afternoon and evening. We can get ’along without cake, but not without bread and we never tire of it Year after year house dresses are made of iabout the same fabrics and vary little In style. But In details of their construction there are little differences, • and the effort is to make them more (and more attractive and practical. Strong, crisp cotton goods; coarse nnbleaced linen, ginghams, percales and a few heavier weaves appear In the house dresses that manufacturers 'have brought out for the present season, all materials that we have learned to rely upon for our work-a-day clothes. Many of the new models have collars and cuffs in white, like the good-looking gingham dress •shown above, where a bit of white (appears also set in kt the front of the (belt in the form of a tab with pointed 'ends. These are turned back and fastened down with flat pearl buttons. This neat finish is repeated qn the cuffs and at die front of the collar, where two buttons are placed. Straps, pipings and flat buttons contribute appropriate finishing touches *to the

dresses and aprons wherefhe chief concern is neatness. The narrow belt and patch pockets are- of gingham. A striped percale house dress shown at the right depends upon flat pipings of another pattern in stripes of the same goods, for its neat finish. These pipings are often in White or in a plain colored chambray. They serve to outline the neck, pockets, belt ftnd whatever othe£ feature the designer wishes to emphasize. In this dress there Is a simulated vest, and pockets are set on cleverly. Elbow sleeves have a flaring flounce and piping defines all important "lines, a band of It running down the top of the sleeve.