Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1920 — LIKE DYED LACES [ARTICLE]

LIKE DYED LACES

Vogue for Color in Every Type of Feminine Garment. « Decoration la Being Generously Used for the High Lights of the Costume. It may sound at first like painting the lily to talk about dyed lace, but in the tremendous vogue for brilliant color In every type of feminine gar* ment it is not a bit surprising. After the first shock it Is pleasant, in fact, to see a georgette blouse, for Instance, in what is called “new” blue veiling, an underblouse of tomato red filet lace allowed to show in the front in filet fashion. used extensively for Ttfie hlgh lights of the costume. It appears, for example, in silver to lighten up a frock of navy blue georgette. The stiff silver lace encircles the hips, giving the fashionable outstanding line, and is veiled by just one layer of the soft georgette. It edges the neck and short sleeves of the same frock. Case au lalt Lyons lace Is used as a foil In a blouse which is lined with black chiffon and has a girdle of black net tying in a bow at the back. One of the loveliest of evening gowns is entirely of gray lace with the inevitable bright color touch in the orange ostrich pompon at one side. Perhaps filet lace lends itself best to dyeing, but all the fine laces are no exception to the new ruling. Sometimes several laces are combined on one blouse. Filet lace dyed a bright orange, for example, makes flounces over the shoulders of a shadow lace blouse dyed brown with sleeves of net in the same dark brown. To lighten up the darker laces, the navy blue, black and brown tinsel ribbons are used. Little folded flowers of it, tiny bows and narrow twisted girdles, all serve to add to the dressiness of the dyed lace blouse or frock. Beads, too, are being used to bring out the richness of dyed lace. Often they contrast with the lace, repeating the deep color of the chiffon lining or they work out the pattern of the lace itself. Metal threads are also used to bring out the lace pattern from its dusky background. Where a whole blouse of lace would be too thin and delicate to top the suit skirt, jumper blouses are made of velvet on Silk duvetyn to bring the dyed laciness down to earth.