The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-23
Homemakers' Column
Edited by Miss Mildred Barton, Home
Demonstration Agent, Oakland
Some Fashion Headlines for
Spring, 1889
Continued From Last Week.
Suits, Ensembles, BlOuses

Suits of all kinds, with emphasis on
fitted ones, bring in new endorse
ment of blouses, particularly sheers
and lingerie types. The contrast idea
in blouse and suit, is a reflection of
the Observation-Disclosures idea in dres-
ses.
Fitted jackets - generally waist
length, are the basis feature, along
with fared or pleated skirts. Fitted
etons or boleros. Deviations: Straight
jackets, boned waistline, wrist-length
jackets, length to widest part Of hips,
jackets curved up at sides, peplum
cut with flare back, boXy- fitted,
fullness from bust at front.
Padded Shoulders remain for tail
ored suits.
Flared and Pleated Skirts contribute
to the youthful character of suits.
Straight Skirts still appear according
to tailleur tradition.
Blouses are a vital factor to suit
styles, acclaiming lingerie types first.
Cottons, linens, silks and rayon make
the list of fabrics.
Silk suits are another contribution
to the large classification. White or
natural tussah, brocades, faille and
marocain, checks and plaids. Linen
prolongs the suit fashion into sum-
mer.
Full-length coats are most men
toned in connection with ensembles
with a silk dress.
Other ensembles forms are: full
jacket and narrow dress; longish capes
and dresses; silk colored jackets and
black sheer dresses; blouse and jacket
of green and black skirt, with cycla
men belt.
Silks and RayOns
Silks are revived in line with the
intense feeling for yarn-dyed weaves
like facille, taffeta and satin, not only
for evening but for daytime. Paris
rates patterned silks favorably, bring
ing stripes, checks and dots into prom
inence, or swinging over into entirely
imaginative print motifs. Silk suits
and coats more in evidence.
Faille, representing the yarn-dye
silks that are so strongly favored in
this springs Paris fashions, is the
most high-lighted fabric in silk CLASH
fcations, used mostly for evening, but
also for day. In evening frocks, it
interprets both wide-skirted styles and
the hip-draped 1880 ideas that are
shown.
Taffeta is another interpreter of the
trend in crisp, bodied silks, also fav-
ored for day and evening.
Moire is one other expression of this
silk fashion.
Bengaline for jackets in color to go
with black afternoon dresses.
Slipper satin is another yarn-dyed
silk that makes this group of fabrics
so vital to the fashion schedule, es-
pecially for evening.
Silk twills, including surah, are
prominent both in plain and printed
versions.
Dots, checks, stripes and plaids are
most representative of the trend in
patterned fabrics, both in prints and
weaves.
Florals are not neglected, especially
in gay and chintz effects. In COM
pletely different mood from conven-
tional dots and checks are the motifs
in amusing and imaginative vein.
Evening Dresses
Evening dresses carry on the trend
of romantic styles, with crinolines
having more sponsors. Looming as a
new interest in silhouette is the slim
silhouette, either simple and straight,
,or modified by width at hips or at
back.
Wide skirts, with crinolines sig
nifcantly more numerous, dominate.
Gathered fullness is also endorsed-at
hips and hip Jokes, gathers at top Of
hips. Width at hips is newest in pre-
senting skirt width. Back fullness ap-
pears in several forms, including the
hustle.
Marrow skirts as an impending
style, most apparent in evening
frocks.
Fitted bodices, definitely of basque
type, are general.
The high waistline of directoire type
is newest.
Decolietes are extremely varied
high, moderate and bare. Ruffles and
borders outlining decolletes are new.
Sleeved evening frocks are repre-
scented in formal types.
Scarfs and shoulder capelets re-
appear.
H. ID. A. Schedule
Monday, March 81, Kitzmiller Sen
ior All club at A p. m.
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