Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1920 — Frocks Express Personality [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Frocks Express Personality

WOMEN are sure to approve of the new tailored dresses for fall, because there is no chance to tired of any one style in them. There is no monotony among them, no tiresome repetition of ideas in construction or trimming, but such a diversity of really good designing that there is a dress for every style, just as there Is a becoming hat for every face. They have one very good point In common, however, and that is their simple lines, and designers appear to agree on the neckline, which is rounded In front and low enough sometimes to admit of a chemisette, but higher than usual at the back. Two very smart tailored frocks for fall may be studied in the picture here and both present new features. The frock at the left has a severely straight bodice with long waist line, and sleeves slashed on the outer arm and curved upward to the three-quar-ter length.- They are finished with a flat band of satin and the neck, in the

same way. These bands appear across the top of the skirt at the back, where it is plaited and at the bottom of the front portion which Is gathered. The skirt joins the bodice with a flat piping of satin and just above this piping satin bands reveal how cleverly they can be used when a designer seta out to do his best with them. Three rows of slashes in the bodice furnish them a chance to slip in and out and form a checker-board pattern that is charming for a cloth dress. The simplest of straight-line dresses in the second model ought to inspire gratitude In the hearts of plump women, for it Is destined to give them long lines. There Is an inverted plait down the front and decorations of narrow ribbon in groups of six each, finished with tiny steel buttons. The new collar is interesting, being a tie of silk attached to the neck and finished with a bow, and ends at the front. ‘