River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-12


of causing an upheaval which meant
forcing styles so startling that none
but the extremist adopted them.
We have been talking of longer lines
in dress for so long a time that the
subject seems a very old one. But the
heightened lines we talked and wrote
about two years ago are short in COM
parison with those of today. Last win
ter no dressmaker placed the waist
line as low down on the hips as it is
now. Then there is the skirt, the hem
of which almost touches the ground,
doing its part in producing longer
and simmer effect. These skirts are
better suited to evening dresses than
to any other costumes.
Loose Models for Uncorseted Figure.
French gowns are of the long
straight sort. This is the type of
evening dress most In use. While there
are many models with tight bodices
and full skirts they are in the minor
ity. The appeal of the picturesque,
which the latter possess, is not strong
enough to compete successfully with
it's long graceful skirt and its simple
bodice hanging loosely from the Shout
ders and blousing around the hips.
One reason why the evening dress
with tight-fitting bodice and full skirt
is not eagerly accepted is because 1t
is not suited to the uncorseted figure.
The loose, and in some cases rather
untidy appearing dress, is in accord
with present-day fashions, keeping
pace as it does with progress and with
as In other lines. No woman wants to
return to Civil war times In her dress
any more than she wants to revert to
any phase Of life peculiar to those
days.
If we realized how closely dress is
and always has been connected with
history we would be more successful
with it and would desist from all at
tempts to march it into any other than
the natural channels.
Decclletage Becomes More Modest.
Evening gowns, except for the most
this year. Some have draped skirts,
the foundation skirt being about seven
inches from the floor, while the various
ways of hanging panels, points and
drapery from the low waistline to sew
eral inches below the skirt, give
most fascinating line.
In evening dresses Jenny features
flowing side panels which are con-
tinuation of the sleeve. She intro
duces an ingenious effect by arranging
the panel on one side of the dress so
that it falls from the front of the
sleeve and that on the other from the
back. She further accentuates this re-
verse treatment by making the panels
of a contrasting material. Two we'd
ding dresses from this maker, one in
white satin and another in silver lace,
show interesting and novel trains
which are a continuation of panels.
Fabrics are sumptuous and colors
are brilliant An abundance of sheer
silver tissue is used for scarfs and
trains, as web as tissues of gold and
silver shot with beautiful colors, no
tably red and violet hues.
Metal brocades, soft velvets and
satins, and beautifully patterned silks
are used profusely. Several models
exploit lace In various ways. Drecoll
makes beautiful lace dresses of a very
stately type cut on the Italian Renais-
sance lines. Especially lovely are those
combining silver and black lace.
Many dressmakers of importance
still favor black, but the pendulum is
swinging rapidly toward bright colors.
A number of white crepe dresses are
yelled with black lace. Frequently a
black and white dress, or the all black
or all white costume, has a girdle Of