The Archive · 1923

Two Simple But Modish Costumes

may be effectively used to band the neck and trail athwart the blouse from shoulder to hip.

A jacket blows with surplice closing is a good model for those inclined to plumpness. If the brilliant colours now in vogue are too hard on a tired complexion, white or some pale shade may be used to soften the effect about the throat. Hemstitching and fagoting are popular trimmings for the plain crepe de chine blouse and the monogram, or better still the monogram motif, which is newer than the monogram conventional should not be omitted. Sometimes designs of printed silk are supered out in the new fabrics. The imposed on a plain material and new printed silks and the vugue of gain an additional brightness from the banana handkerchief are) their contrasting background. Cut responsible for many strip iking} your blouses as you will, but buy effects in Indian and Persian patterns. The newest thing, however, blouses unless you wish to feel frightfully out of things.

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