Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1919 — SWEATER MUCH IN FAVOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SWEATER MUCH IN FAVOR

Garment Is Delightful Part of Summer Wardrobe. No Other Piece Can Be So Easily Put on and Adjusted to Bo* •»=• ———— comingness. fashiom That we all know. Yet every woman has a sweater io her wardrobe, and most women have several sweaters. Wa hav<* been told, notes a fashion writer, that sweaters now are worn for warmth. A couple of seasons ago they were worn beenuse they were in vogue. To be sure, sweaters are worn for warmth now — partly?” But they are also worn because they are a delightful part of the summer wardrobe. In no other vriiy7can~a bright dash pf color be no

effectively .procured and no other garment can be so easily put on and adjusted to becomingness. Therefore it is the day of the sweater, even though to a more limited extent than was the case a year or so ago. one reason, of course, why women have, some of them, more sweaters this year than they had- last ls_ because they have time this summer for knUTlhg. "They were~too busy making Red Cross sweaters and socks and helmets last summer to find time and needles for sweaters for themselves. Now Red Cross knitting, excepting for the refugee garments, is not needed. And therefore women are knitting for themselves. Really good hand-knit sweaters of wool are very expensive when bought ready made. Wool is still high. Labor is high. The same condition holds good of silk sweaters. They also are expensive. So if you can make your own sweater you can save a great deal on that garment, for you give your labor to yourself and have only the cost of the wool to consider. One of the new sweaters is that made of the finest sort of Shetland

floss, knitted singly into a coat sweater, with long sleeves and a sash. The sash is sometimes quite wide and ties ; in a loose knot at one side or at the ' back. These sweaters are knitted on coarse needles and look especially I well over the all-white frock. < Another one of the season’s new dfkferings is the tremendously popular i filet sweater. It is crocheted instead I of knitted, but it is a sweater just the same.

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