Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1919 — FALL DESIGNS [ARTICLE]

FALL DESIGNS

More Width Is the Decree of Leaders of Fashion. Extensive Choice Will Be Allowed Wearers in the Selection of Favorite Goods and Colors: The phrase that sums up the new fashions for the autumn is “more width.” There Is a very distinct movement orr~footrto _ ffie 7 narrow, constricted styles. Paris never adopted the lead-pencil silhouette with Its long tight skirt that was fised by some American houses. To the easy width that they have been using they have added even more fullness, in tnnlcs. circular 1 skirts gathered skirts and hip draperies. The most distinct depar styles ts the circular'tunic, circular flounce and circular skirt. This new cut not only gives more width, but a new silhouette, because there is a flare at the bottom. For street dresses these skirt styles will be used in trlcotine, soft twills, light-weight duvetyn, serge, gabardine, broadcloth, checks and plaids. The sam’e materials will be used for the chemise dresses which Paris goes on creating with fresh variety and interesting details in the wav of new vests, tucked skirts, etc. For afternoon dresses the smartest materials will be the satin-finished silks like satin, charmpiiso find crepe meteor. —Faille and moire will also be good, because they have a certain stiffness and body which accents the new silhouette. Taffeta will be used, but will not be as fashionable as satin. These same silk materials will be employed for evening, for the theater and for dancing -dresses, —For their most formal eveordeF womejl use the velvet and - metal brocades and metal cloths, while young girls and debutantes will use tulle, chiffon, georgette or net as well as the soft silks and satins. 333—55 For day dresses there will be the short sleeve, the open neck, either collarless or with one of the new standaway or plaited collars, the long blouse, the redingote styles, the use of multitucked skirts, versions of the vest, and the draped hip-length body that suggests the line of the figure. —The wlde clrcular skirts are used for street dresses, afternoon dresses and evening gowns, but not for suits. For the suit there is a slightly wider skirt with straight lines, but with no unnecessary width, which , would be burdensome in walking. For the suits the coats are also -cut on a straight silhouette, even when there is the effect of soft fullness that you get in the new blouse coats. The autumn suits will be jnade on more tailored lines, especially when they are used for hacking and walking. You will find them at their smartest In striped and checked materials, in men’s-wear mixtures, tweed, oxford and covert cloth. They are also made of serge, poplin, gabardine, tricotine and twills. These last materials can he used for either the tailored or the semltailored suit, and for the latter there are also the duvetyn, velveteens, wool velours, meltons, camel’s-hair cloth and broadcloth. The very long belted coat is used by the French houses and Is extremely good looking.—From Delineator.