Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — WHAT THEY WEAR IN PARIS [ARTICLE]

WHAT THEY WEAR IN PARIS

Detachable Waistcoat Is a Precious Possession; Plays a Most Important Part in Dress. A special correspondent writes: The detachable waistcoat Is a precious possession. In Paris it is, made to play a most important role in the world of dress. We have long directoire waistcoats made of satin, brocade or silk finished linen and smart little plastron waistcoats jembroidered in silks and wools, the latter showing subtle combinations of unexpected colors. Now that materials are so expensive it is impossible to have more than one or two outdoor costumes in the year, but of decorative plastrons we can have many; and if we* think out effective color schemes, th which waistcoat and hat are happily wedded, the result will be more than agreeable. One sees many fine embroideries cleverly mingled with braidings '•on these straight plastrons, and sometimes the material used for the backgrouhd is suede cloth in some pale neutral tipt, with the brightest silks and wools to supply in the embroideries the necessary splash of color.