Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1919 — Triumphs From the Fashion Show [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Triumphs From the Fashion Show

To attend Bne of the Fashion shows, staged by the Fashion-Art League of America is to come away, convinced that Americans might sign up a Declaration of Independence in the matter of fashions without sacrificing anything of beauty or style. They do not choose to do this and they do not follow slavishly the lead of other lands, but look to all quarters of the world for inspirations. These they adapt to suit our needs, and also they create for themselves -such examples of loveliness as are revealed in the two evening gowns pictured here. Great American names are signed to them, and the gown at the left is one of the triumphs of the last fashion show. This “Papillon” gown has as a foundation a green and gold metal cloth that shimmers through a veiling of gray tulle. Three full flounces of tulle are placed above the bottom of the skirt and a tunic of tulle is edged with a frill of it. The bodice slopes down from above the hust line at the front into a wide girdle,at the back. Here it gives as much countenance to the backleSs gown of Paris as one may ex-

pect from an American designer. An overbodice of the tulle covers the shoulders and forms short sleeves. The effect of a short, square train is made of wide green and gold ribbon, brocaded with a butterfly pattern, that is set into the girdle at each side and joined at the middle with two gold roses. These roses are small and full bloom, made of a gauze and appear unexpectedly on the tunic, where it Is draped at the back. They strike the high note that finishes off a gorgeous and beautiful gown. “Gorgeous” does not fit as a description of the gown shown at the right, but “brilliant” belongs to It. It was made of black satin, black tulle and jet by a famous designer, whose brain seems to be an inexhaustible picture gallery of lovely apparel for womankind. The skirt is adapted to fall in about the ankles, revealing them and the silk-and-satin-clad feet. The black tulle qverbodlse _has long and fulldraped sleeves, a wide girdle of brilliant jet embroidery and strands of jet beads over the shoulders. A long, generous strand of them falls from the ‘front of the bodice.