Middletown transcript., 1922-07-15
The Waist and
Skirt Combined

Take a black silk plated skirt for
instance. Well, that is q foundation
for many frocks useful at all seasons
of the year, but the minute any old
waist Is worn with the skirt, just be-
cause one Is q waist and the other
skirt, then bad results follow and the
wearer Is likely to class herself nth
those dressing in the fashions of the
late nineties.
If the waist and the skirt are judged
as related to each other; If the first
works into the scheme of the second,
then the owner is on the way to have
costume which will be eminently
satisfactory in all respects. When
she appears again in that skirt with
another bodice harmonizing in some
other and original way, no ne will
think of suspecting that the old skirt
is not new.
Some well-dressed women regard
this principle of dress seriously when
planning their wardrobes. Combina-
tion makes variety possible and with
a slight expenditure any woman may
add a fresh and inspiring dress to
her wardrobe. Even two or three may
be added, and so on indefinitely until
the limits of her designing originality
have been exhausted.
Separate Collars and Cuffs.
The separate skirt with the shirt
waist and sweater is combination
which, especially in this summer sea-
son, is almost inevitable in every ward
robe. 1t can be good, and it can be
very bad. Nowadays, sweaters are
taking the place of blouses, for they
are worn with separate collars and
cuffs, or with false fronts" This
fashion offers all sorts of opportuni-
ties and quaint and beautiful combina-
tiOnS Of color. With one skirt and
several sweaters woman may be
ready for many occasions. The pret-
test of all are the thin knitted sweat
ers with their pastel colorings and
their interesting array of stitches,
which give them character and tone.
This is season of white, and the
white sweater with the colored skirt
or the white sweater with the white
skirt Is combination which has
everything to recommend 1t. If the
wearer needs touch of contrast with
the general whiteness, then put on
brilliant hat or a wide-brimmed black
one.
Many of the newer sweaters are
striped in crosswise fashion. When
this is the case the prettiest and most
feminine of colors are used in COM
bination. For instance, one has alter
mating stripes of violet, mauve and or
child blending into wide and deep
cream-colored stripes. 1t is worn with
violet crepe skirt, and together they
form a subtle combination that, with
suitable hat, is ready for afternoon
or morning at any country club.
The yellow sweaters have made the
greatest hit of all, for not only are
they knitted in that most fashionable
of colorings, but they have coolness
and freshness about them that hardly
any other coloring of wool could hope
to attain in warm weather. There is
a saying that wool is cooling during
heated spells. That may or may not
be so, but, at any rate, the yellow
tones have way Of looking cool, and
that, after all, is half the battle.
The Long-Waisred Blouse.
Then there is the long-waisted blouse
worn over the hips and from which
the separate skirt hangs in way that
makes it part of the blouse itself.
These are desirable in jersey and fian-
mel and in some of the heavier crepe
slks-designated as pastime silks.
These blouses are more in the nature
of smocks, but 1t is interesting to
see that they have become very much
a part of the modern wardrobe. In
other words, the smock has really en-
tered the field of legitimate fashion as
long as it is made with some idea of
the demand of real smartness.