Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — A Shirt for Women. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Shirt for Women.

Women will wear shirts from this time forth if they follow the fashion ol the "four hundred," which has already sounded the edict in Paris and London. The woman’s shirt is a pretty and delicate combination of female acquisition and masculine concession. It is mads with collar and cuff attachments of the latest pattern worn by gentlemen. The body is of fine muslin and the bosom of three or four ply linen, as the case may be. The collar and cuffs are also linen, of course. The garment is made open in front the entire length, the skirts

falling loosely to the hips. A gather! ing-string controls the waist and serves to bold the bosom in easy conformity to the personal contour of the wearer. The bosom is provided with worked eyelets for sluds, thus gratifying her purse or s passion for the display of diamonds oi other jewels. The bosom is not so long as that of a man’s shirt, only falling to tbe length of nine inches, but that measurement can, of course, vary with the styles of dress. The bosom of the shirt falls just low enough Io come into its place and to be held there by the corsajM.—Z’ray <.