Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — Gay Party Dresses [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gay Party Dresses

THERE are party dresses and party dresses; some of them of taffeta silk, some of georgette crepe and many of sheer white materials, for little maids from six to twelve. Crisp taffeta is always pretty and it helps out when angles are sharp or colors more becoming than white. Everyone can wear georgette and nearly everyone looks well in voile or net, especially when they veil a favorite color in a silk slip. The party frock pictured here happens to be of white net, but it would be just as dainty In voile or georgette. There Is not much to say of it that is not told by a glance rt the picture, it is so simply designed. That is the greatest of virtues in this season’s styles, however, and is a good beginning for any frock. There are rows of beautifully precise tucks above the hem in the skirt and the bodice is merely a frivolous and glorified smock with pointed skirt and short sleeves. Little frills of net at the neck and sleeves and on the bottom.

of the smock make a happy ending for this brief story. A narrow ribbon girdle with ends might replace the plain belt, if any little girl should express a longing for an old favorite of this kind. There are some pretty party dresses in which under bodices and sleeves of net are revealed by slips of crepe-de-chine that have only suspenders of the silk over the shoulders. These have narrow belts of the silk and the net depends upon tucks and puffs for adornment. Sleeves are elbow length or a little shorter. On crepe-de-chine and georgette frocks we are almost sure to find smocking and we shall not look far without running across the finest white and colored organdies in the most alluring of gay dresses. One of the prettiest ways in which organdy was ever used appears this season in dresses of gay fine cottons, in pink, blue or yellow, having the short bodice veiled with organdy, organdy girdle and sash with wide-bow, and a narrow border of it at the bottom of the skirt