Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1919 — Net Frocks Are Quite in Favor [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Net Frocks Are Quite in Favor

The warm weather has brought forth a delightful array of th(f charming dresses of fine white net richly combined with embroidered panels of batiste which are now taking the place of the lingerie gown for the elaborate occasions when such a summer frock is needed. The fine round thread nets lend themselves beautifully for this sort of dress and are accepted for informal evening affairs as well as for those formal afternoon occasions such as country club teas and bridge parties. Now and then, observes a fashion correspondent, one finds the embroidery on the net usually done in fine white cotton thread In a small trailing employed to put the dress together and add further richness, for the idea of

this sort of frock seems to be to make it as elaborate as possible. Coarse white not is used for the tight slip underneath, over which is hung the first layer of the outside material. One elaborate gown shows a very skimpy underskirt with three small ruffles of the net placed one above the other upside down along the bottom. The embroidered net is used in an apron drapery for the front of the skirt and has a very wide sash of ciel blue satin ribbon runping under the edge of this apron and draping over the hips to be tied in a very wide bow at the waistline lit- the back. This sash is so wide indeed that it appears almost like a bustle of the satin placed at the back. The bodice is put together jvith wide filet lace and is quite as elaborate as the skirt, repeating an embroidered panel in a vestee effect. The sleeves are longer than the French medels but do not come quite to the elbow. An Effective Combination. One of the effective combinations in the elaborate type of dress is displayed In a gown of white organdie and white net combined. The net, embroidered in a very handsome design, forms the upper part of the gown, while the organdie, tucked from waist to hem, is placed in side panels. The finest of Irish crochet lace is used as a trimming on this frock, edging the collar, which is cut in deep points in the front away from the throat, and edging the two pockets placed on the front net panel in the skirt. . The short sleeves are also edged with lace. No sash is Used on this dress, and because of the beauty of the design and the material none indeed is needed. One sees any number of dresses with the finely tucked side panels in all sorts of fine cotton materials. As the tucks are as a rule not more than half an inch wide and are placed so closely together as almost to overlap they do not thicken the figure in spite of the fact that they ruu round instead of up hnd down. While the wjilte dress is the preferred now and again one finds a color combination worthy of note, as, for instance, in a soft little one-piece thing which has the upper part entirely of finest plaited chiffon pale pink in color. The lower part of the skirt Is made of an embroidered panel pf net appllqued onto the chiffon and finished off at the sides and back with enough of the plain net tq give the needed width, and let us note, in passing, that skirts are somewhat wider than the spring first showing predicted. It is well known that thin fabrics are not graceful when skimped and the tight straight effects must be studiously avoided for really good and graceful results. Solves a Problem. , The use of fine net with other materials this summer solves a problem of what to do with the embroidered panels which come from the Philippines, Switzerland or France and which so often are too much for a shirt waist and yet not enough Yor the dress. Some of the most pleasing results obtained are shown by cleverly

putting these panels together with handsome lace, filet or Irish crochet, and filling out all the required spaces with the fine net. In speaking of this sort of gown one must not forget that the sash Is often its most important part, for one is just as apt to find it forming almost the entire bach as not, the narrow inch-wide string belts being left for other dresses. If. however, one prefers the narrower type inch-wide’moire ribbon with picot edges is used in two strips. Contrasting with the elaborately draped and befrilled frock we find the straight one-piece frock, almost perfectly straight from neck to hem, much in favor. The chemise frock it is called and is made of embroidered panels of net and lace or embroidered batiste combined with the net. On this type of dress the sash is very wide and tied its full width about the waist as straight and unrelieved by folds or* drawing in as a child’s. Of course the dress itself buttons down the back and the long lines thus remain unbroken. Ruffles as Trimming. Wee ruffles of plain organdie and very narrow edges of Valenciennes lace are used as trimming. In the place of, the braiding the organdie is now and then covered with machine stitching, which has the same effect, always done in white, as for some reason this is to be a white suminer, at least as far as our finest frocks go. This stitching was used a great deal during the winter on hats and turbans and on silk dresses, but as yet this is the first season it has appeared in the thinner fabrics, therefore its presence tells of its being the newest thing. One of the most delightful fabrics for the less elaborate dress than those described is the cross-barred organdie, so sheer and fine that it is a delight to wearer and beholder endlessly. It is found made up into a rather dressy morning frock of almost shirt-waist simplicity, though the addition of tiny ruffles of footing along the wide low collar, along the sleeves and on the tops of the little pockets plhced on the front of the skirt relieves the dress of any plainness yvhatever. A straight round belt holds in the waist. and at the back a wide sash of the organdie is edged the full length, with the footing frilled into place. Accompanying this delightful frock is a wide-brimmed hat of the sauje material with a soft edge and bows of white net standing up at just the right angle, in front. Organdie Still in Favor. Of course we are not to think for a moment that organdie has lost its favor, though these finer dresses have pushed it somewhat to one side on dressy occasions. Organdie is delightful to see—on the other person. It belongs by right to youth and slim figures, for its rigidity and its extreme thinness are both against it in the average woman’s eyes. ' The brilliant colors are much in favor for fine frocks and can be made as simple or as.fussy as one desires. One of rose pink has a tight underskirt with a deep hem and over this hang four panels of the pink organdie edged with narrow lace frills. A bib of the organdie with the lace extending from the neck to the bottom of the bib appearing below the pink satin sash is introduced in the front of the waist to give the popular vestee effect, which seems to rage with the same

favor the early spring gave It The back of the waist is plain, Relieved at the neck only by a deep collar of the lace-edged organdie and the sleeves, short to the elbow, have also the lace frills finishing them.

Charming Frock of Embroidered Net With Filet Lace.

Popular Dress Made Attractive by Philippine Embroidery.