Show shirtwaist dress plays dual role by CHERIE NICHOLAS it ALWAYS doing the unexpected fashion Is just like that this time it is the delval of the shirtwaist dress which Is causing no end of enthusiasm thusia sm and excitement among fol lowers of the mode of course if you have in mind the old fashioned interpretation of th shirtwaist alst dress that it Is a prim waist and skirt frock neatly tailored of serlee able material as should be a strictly utilitarian garb doing solely office sports schoolroom and other practical service you have but half sensed the newer meaning of the modern shirtwaist costume the dress as now Is may be utterly informal or it may take on formality of highest degree the dual role which the modern shirtwaist costume Is placing Is entirely a matter of the material which fashions it to be explicit the smartest and most out of the ordnary evening gowns of the season are shirtwaist frocks whose skirts are of either velvet satin or crepe in black or some one or other of the very new dark tones which are so BO voguish at present of course to be formal these skills go 90 to great lengths touching the floor and even boasting trains as most of the latest night life frocks do these form fit ting statuesque slenderizing slender izing skirts set off by contrast the brilliancy of the glamorous bodices that top them thein the same being tailored in strictly shirtwaist fashion of resplendent gold or silver tissue cloth the figure sketched in the foreground of our illustration Is just such the skirt Is of regal black velvet the shirtwaist Is just what it claims to be strictly a tailored shirtwaist it Is I 1 its material which performs the magic a perfectly exquisite gold lame of tissue weave with a glitter of rhinestone buttons down the front all of which bespeaks the sumptuousness which Is characteristic of current eve ding modes the little halo of velvet with its gold mesh veil Is also a necessary evening luxury sometimes the theme of the formal shirtwaist Is varied in that it Is fashioned of gleaming satin perhaps in the flip new dew gold color or some other equally as effective hue these satin types are often graced with twists of self belf satin about the neckline or perhaps they develop a cowl drape or a soft bertha effect their sleeves are also apt to take liberties in that they are short and are ingeniously pleated or gathered into the armhole in the daytime the smart set Is going about in shirtwaist frocks which are tailored to a nicety of black satin ob observing meticulously the rules oi of patch pockets waist length sleeves neat belts and prim collars ane sketch above to ti the left to in the picture colleys conleys the idea just the type of dress to wear under comfy fur coats when a daytime shirtwaist dress la Is not of black satin or one of the new ribbed silk variety then it Is almost sure to be of a modish bright woolen the newest thing in woolens being stripes these gay stripes make up effectively as the shirtwaist frock centered in the group bears testimony 0 1923 western newspaper New paper union |