Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1911 — BRAID FOR SUIT TRIMMING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRAID FOR SUIT TRIMMING

Much Favored In Nearly All New Bulta—Buttons Also Much in Evidence. , In nearly all the new suits the favored trimming is braid, especially tbe wide braid, which sometimes forms the collar, cuffs and revers, and trims the skirt as well. Panels of braid coming down the front and back of the Jacket, and continued in the same way on the skirt, are distinctly the thing . Narrow braid la also very smart, especially when worked out in ornamental designs on the skirt and coat. A touch of color Is added by oriental embroidery on the collar, sleeves and revers. There is merely a hint of this, and it Is not allowed to become too prominent in the color scheme. Buttons are also very much in evidence, some of them of the same odor as either the suit or the trimming, or as both, and some of them silver or gilt These latter are very small, quite tiny, in fact. In general, however, the new suits, except the elaborate satin ones, are rather plain, comparatively little trimming of any sort, outside of braid, being seen.

The wide fluted niching* of a *«ikh or so ago, which grew gradually more and more harrow until the past winter they wdre only a bit of cord, have now disappeared altogether and the new high collars have simply a fold of gold or silver, or perhaps. a bit of contrasting material to finish them. In the cream white oollars this touch of contrast is usually given by a bit of black close to the throat, but this is a trying style, and a more becoming effect can be gained by patting a fold of old rose chiffon or a double fold of tulle at the top of the collar, while the bit of gold braid or silver la also both pretty and becoming. High collars will continue In favor until after the spring * season, but summer will bring the collarless frock into vogue again.

Collars.