Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — REVIVE THE OLD FASHIONS [ARTICLE]

REVIVE THE OLD FASHIONS

Designers Ge Back to Medieval Times for Ideas that Give an Individual Note. **. . - Long clinging robeß of velvet, cut on straight lines, which were fashionable .in earlier centuries, are to be seen again in dresses for the daytime as well as evening. Dresses of this type, with entire absence of waistline, appeal strongly to women who like the individual note in dress. Some of the straight dresses recall modes which were fashionable in France in the fourteenth century. The yokes, cut out in something like a V In front and on the Bhoulders, are made of bands covered with embroidery, and the dresses moulded to the figure in severe style from neck to hem have sleeves to the elbows, repeating the, embroidered bands at the neck. ■ Such a gown was seen In a fashionable New York show room last week. Made of clear yellow velvet, the dress was hemmed with skunk and (embroidered in deep tones of gold with a dash of turquoise blue lntrqduced In the worsted girdle of deep gold, which gave a distinctive note to the dress. In the same show room there was a similar gown in Jacobean tapestry which had a tablier veiling of clear terra-cotta ninon down the front and back. One of the latest gowns from Paris was suggestive of ah old fashion re> vived, and was carried out in a lovely shade of hyacinth blue satin completely veiled with ninon of the same color; This overdress was tucked and puffed in the quaintest way, and each ruching was edged with brilliants. Above the knees from a puffing of ninon there fell an edging of pearl. ,