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A firemen's parade in Wayne c.1915, look at the ladies styles!!NOTE: While doing research on another article I came across this article on changing woman's fashion from one hundred years ago. I do not understand most of it but found it funny and interesting. |
NEW MODES IN ODD SKIRTS AND BLOUSES
“I thought I used remarkable judgment in my trousseau,” said a bride
the other day, whose wedding finery had, indeed, seemed to include everything
that taste and beauty and comfort demands. “I had gowns and coats and tailored
suits and morning dresses and negligees and all the rest of it. But in my rash young foolishness I absolutely
tabooed any odd skirts or waists. And
would you believe it, my dear, but there were scores and scores of times when I
needed nothing in the world so much as just a separate skirt and waist – times
when I didn’t care to wear my suit skirt, because you know how much more
quickly they begin to show signs of wear, anyhow, than the coats; times when
the little wash morning dress is too informal and the foulard frock too dressy,
or when everything else in one’s wardrobe needs a stitch here or a fresh stitch
there. Take my advice and stick to the
odd skirt and blouse like a sister.”
There
you are. There’s no getting away from
it, these trig, practical, comfortable garments are here to stay apparently
till the crack o’ doom. So, let’s see
what new ideas the shops are offering us this season for wear during spring and
summer months.
Perhaps
there is just one thing a woman won’t do to be in fashion, and that is break
her neck (though, indeed, some of them have almost hobbled away to join the
angels), so that on account of this fussy notion of hers, the newest skirts are
considerably wider about the bottom.
They are by no means voluminous, however, 2 ¼ to 2 12 yards being the
favored width. They must above all be
cut on straight lines and allow the wearer to present the narrow silhouette
that is the keynote of the present styles.
Into
some of the skirts are cleverly introduced a couple of small pleats in the back
or front panels or in the side gores which give added freedom of movement
without in any way affecting the style of the garment.
Many
of the skirts are trimmed with wide folds of the same material put on four or
five inches from the bottom, and some models show a revival of the high
waistband, with the waistline about two inches above the normal.. For later wear the silk skirts will be much
worn, but just now the worsteds, serge, voiles, and panamas in black and blue,
particularly, are in demand. Quite a few
knobby styles are shown in grey mixtures, and the hairline stripes are also
returning to favor.
The
veiled effects that were so universally employed for the winter blouse have
been carried over for the spring, with only slight modifications in materials
and styles. Lighter weight fabrics, of
course, are desirable for the foundations of these dressy little blouses and
silk mull, net and china silk, with chiffons, marquisettes, net, or any of the
transparent materials for veiling them, make up most attractively. They are often very simple in design, the
only ornamental touch being in the lace collar and, perhaps tiny
undersleeves. One charming model
intended to be worn with a blue tailored suit was made in the popular and
becoming style with sleeve and blouse in one.
Over the foundation of white china silk was laid a flowered chiffon with
a white ground over which were scattered tiny nosegays in soft shades of blue
and green and rose color. Over this
again was chiffon matching the blue of the suit, which was also used to form
narrow pleated frills, about the white lace collar and at the elbow above the
narrow, lace under sleeve. In the more
elaborate blouses are seen rover effects and many sailor collar developments
carried out in colored chiffons contrasting with the waist material.
The
lingerie waists are filmy with lace – two, three, as many as five kinds of lace
are sometimes used on a single model.
Lawn, batiste, marquisette, and voile are the favored fabrics. The comfortable and youthful Dutch neck will
be much seen this summer, while the peasant sleeve, in three-quarter length
takes precedence over all others.
Pleatings
give a chic touch to the semi-tailored waists.
These are often edged with narrow lace and outline the front or side
opening of the waist. One waist had a
frill of real lace that not only outlined the front closing, but followed the
yoke outline on the left side from the shoulder to the middle front.
The
tailored models show no radical changes.
They are made usually with pleats down the front and back, and sometimes
with broad pleats over the shoulders.
Invariably they have long sleeves with the straight, stiff cuffs, though
now and then one sees a soft, turn back cuff on some of the embroidered
waist. Hand embroidering is in very good
style. It may be most elaborate and
carry but a variety of designs on the collar, cuffs and front pleat, or it may
be a single scalloped finish for the side or front fastening.
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