Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — Gowns Have Straight Lines [ARTICLE]

Gowns Have Straight Lines

Design of Spring Flapper Outfits Affect Garment From Neck „ to the Border. The chic spring fashions for the nifty young flappers are delightfully suggestive of the buoyancy of early youth. The leading flapper gowns have straight lines the neck to the border, which finishes just below the knee —even at fourteen. Some of the gowns allow a reach to midway between ankle and knee. Some modeli In one piece fall straight with a belt on the hip line. This line is defined in other models with a wide long sash that is wonderfully fluffed at the back or right side. The sleeves are elbow length for afternoon gowns. Modest little gowns have sleeves three inches above the wrist Even caps are seen in some afternoon negligee gowns that are to be worn in the parks, on the beach and at home. Linen and silk lawn, organdie and swlss muslins are billowed into gowns, with a lot of flying ribbons hitched midst the sweeps of fabric—still these

small garments are taut in defining the figure loosely. The coats are modeled much like those for the “younger set” just ahead of the flappers. Their hats are the sailor, In straw, In fiber. In metal braid. There are turbans and jaunty caps. Low shoes in black and white lead—and the flapper in walking abroad is shod in oxfords and pumps with spring and three-layer heels.