Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — FASHION'S LATEST FANCIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FASHION'S LATEST FANCIES

STYLES FOR MISSES

MORE NEARLY RIGHT THING THAN THOSE FOR WOMEN. Look Actually Adorable In Baglike Skirts of Hour—Many Dressy Frocks Are In One-Piece Models. The fall clothes provided for misses strike the heart disgruntled with fashion’s follies as more nearly the right thing than those provided for woman. *True, the small woman may find them to her taste, but the styles are created for the girl, and it is not entirely the traditions of girlhood that make them attractive. Perhaps it is the charm of the very short skirts and the slim figures—it may be that the young Jgirl is more suited to the present frivolities than the woman who is supposed to have come to the age of reason. Everywhere one encounters the imaidenly wisp of humanity looking {actually adorable In the baglike skirts of the hour, with their restraining bands or skimpy cut, with the overskirt that looks as if it has a right to be, the short sleeve that seems legitimate and so on. In the field of practicalities a mannish little coat suit represents the proper caper for street wear, and in its most killing phases it looks as If it might be made out of three yards of stuff. A trim, dinky sort of little jacket, with coat sleeves fitting all but to the skin and a single-breasted front, is completed with a skirt without a gather and with only two seams—these at the sides. Mannish materials, too, are being used for it, and for all the apparent simplicity of such suits they require the touch of accomplished tailoring. Many dreßsy little frocks are in oneIpiece models, or they may be in two Isectlons, with the upper part of the skirt simulating, with a yoke or trimming, some basque finish for the bodice. When the waist and skirt join perfectly it is impossible to see at first glance that these frocks are not In one. Then there is the straight overskirt BtUl with us, and Just now It is the merest cap, hugging the hips tightly and- finished with the inevlt-

®ble band the hobble introduced. Below the cap, fortunately for grace and locomotion, there may be a deep kilted flounce, which In fine materials flutters and waves gracefully with walking. j But these are the pet extremes of ithe hour, and for those who want the (sensible thing pray let me Introduce ja few pictures which show styles as (pretty as they are reasonable. .Though designed for misses, the models are appropriate for small women iand the styles are all quite simple (enough for home dressmaking. The combination of Russian coat (and plaited skirt, shown in the illustration, represents an ideal style for ja young girl’s street -wear for both (autumn and winter, for by wearing (a warm little vest under the coat the grass would be suitable for any but (the most frigid days. As pictured, the js«lt is made of a mannish goods 4n thrown and rad, with a little handsome feaaforoldery and some fancy buttons lon the bodies. The skirt is in seven (gores, but as these are plaited and tetltched at the top the effect is stylishly narrow. This model will be found very good

for lightweight* serge or cloth or some novelty suiting or other, and instead of the embroidery used here a palm leaf Persian silk could be bought for the collar and cuffs and pipings of the bodice. A good wool, with trimmings of black velvet, would be substantial, and if one wants the latest touch she must respect velvet now.