Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1919 — OVER BLOUSE HERE TO STAY [ARTICLE]

OVER BLOUSE HERE TO STAY

Fashion Forecasts Show the Garment Is to Be One of the Popular Fall Adjuncts. ■ ■ e One type of garment that it seems perfectly safe to advise the average woman, to purchase now with the comfortable assurance that it may be worn when fall comes around Is the long or over-the-skirt blouse. These blouses unfortunately are rather expensive just , now, and Mrs. Average Woman will hesitate a little before purchasing a garment about which there has been so much discussion and which has so long struggled for general recognition. Blouse makers hffve announced that they have confidence in the continued . vogue of this type of blouse, now that American women have finally agreed to give it a real tryout, and because of this confidence they are bringing out, or planning to bring out in the fall lines, long blouses that will be sold at reasonable figures. Therefore the woman who does not care to wait until fall for her over-the-skirt bjlouse may watch for special and bargain sales and lay in as many as she likes without fear that the fall will find the garment laid on the shelf by Dame Fashion. This Inclination of blousemakers to stabilise what has up to the present season been a decided novelty seems to Indicate clearly that the long blouse has arrived and that It Is here to stay.