Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1920 — Tight Garments Are Not Liked [ARTICLE]

Tight Garments Are Not Liked

Women Are Only Too Glad to Grasp More Sensible and Comfortable Styles. Women have balked for years at tight waists, tight high collars and very tight sleeves, and it is doubtful whether the severely fitted basque effects will ever again meet with general approval. The only really uncomfortable garment that has been accepted of late years is the very narrow skirt, and this Is gradually being moved back to normal. As a matter of fact, it is almost safe to say that thq very best dressed women never did wear them. In this season’s showing of garments, both frocks and suits, there are many skirts only a yard and a half wide, but few indeed are narrower, and the many plaited skirts worn prove conclusively that when Dame Fashion admits sensible and comfortable styles, women are only too glad to grasp them. Another new style note, not bizarre but charming. Is when making a threepiece suit to have lower skirt and coat of wool fabric, and blouse, or upper part, and lining of coat of matching Round Garters Again. One sees round garters in the lingerie departments again. They’ve always been there more or less, to be sure, but pushed into the obscurity of the background, tike a poor relation. Now they are being brought out and father featured. Why? Probably in anticipation that the corsetless erase

reported from Paris will reach here, though it has hardly done so yet However, most women rarely wear a corset with negligee things, when lounging round “chez moi.” So they always like to keep a smart pair or two of round garters on hand. They’re such coquettish, decorative, feminine trifles, too, to have about.