THE EVER POPULAR DOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 15

THE EVER POPULAR DOUSE.

Fahion designers have often announced that tho blouse is deld, but the assertion haa always fallen o^ doaf ears, for the blouso is boloved bj all. Even tho woman who spends hundreds a year on her clothes is just cs doioted to ihis most useful garm?nt as fie ordinary suburban girl, who looks to.it nu supplying v, certain and 6af e method of introducing variety into an inexpensive and limited wardrobe. Ju^t ncjv (says Melbourns Argus) the r-snewcl popiJarity of tho blouse i> owing U the inclination for tailor-made coatj and skirts, and it may be said, with L high degreo of certainty, that'ac lougjas this practical costume kesps in. fVvour so will there bo a demand, for 'he blouse, in which there is now a deiided improvement. Up to quite recently there has been a partiality for iv* plain and severe tucked linen or' flannel shirt, which though admirably for morning wear L- not quite approp,'iato for smart luncheons or tea parties, iwhore it is correct nowadays to remove fie coat, though the hat is worn. . Tlfcreforo, it has I been felt imperative for! some timo past to bring tho blouso in(t> oomc Eort of conformity with tho skij-t. This has at last been achieved byj leading dressmakers by making th^ blouse of not necessarily the «imo cojmr as tho skirt, but by trimming it, or rather bordering it, with piocjc of tho l^atcrial of which the skirt is made. Lace makes the favourito blouse of the nument. Bands of tho material are plac'ce| between rows of Cluny and Irish croctet insertion, and tho general effect is a strapped lace blouse.