Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — NOVELTIES FOR SPRING [ARTICLE]

NOVELTIES FOR SPRING

WHAT FASHION DICTATES IN ~ HATS AND FABRICS. *•'?' . High Crown* with Abbreviated Brim* » and Medium Crowns With' Wide Spreading Brims—Silk and Wool r/ Poplins Are Popular; The shops are full of spring and spring fabrics for dresses. In hats is an endffcss variety of shapes, styles and colorings. There are high crowns with abbreviated brims, medium crowns with brims that spread/ to the width of the shoulders. Demure and dainty'shapes in colors that contrast well with almost any scheme or effect. The heavy looking straw braids are really very light and durable, and come in color blends of green and blue, red and brown, etc., as well as one-color effects. They are smartest in turbans and small high-crowned shapes, and their trimmings are simple after the fashion of the winter, with nothing to obscure their lines or shapes. Brims and crowns that don’t match are among some of the staartest models. Black hats with brims of green velvet or of king’s blue or coral have the crowns of black. horsehair and are trimmed with upstanding bows or wings or feathers placed anywhere but la the middle of the front. Center back trimmings are very good style.

Smart tailors and dressmakers are making great use of the lovely silk and wool poplins that come in an endless variety of fashionable shades and colorings. These drape well and wear indefinitely, owing to their wool filling. The new tailor -mades include frocks ns well as coat and skirt models, and the use of wool-backed satjns and silk and wool mixtures for this type of costume will be a marked feature of the coming season. Suit coats are short and square cut, quite or nearly straight under arm seams, and end at the line of the hips as a rule, though If that length is unbecoming there are short etons and a few longer models to select from. The etons are decidedly loose fitting, though many of them finish with a shaped band. Serges and heather mixtures are first choice for hard-wear costumes, and a very dark navy blue serge is again a favorite for plain colored suits and dresses. Pekin striped silk or cotton is used for vests and collars and cuffs on some of the best models. The use of cotton and linen materials for trimming purposes on wool and silk dresses Is a marked fad this year. Some of the little black satin'suits are very effectively trimmed with black and white Pekin stripe, while others are all black or have a thread of white in the rather wide braid which is used to trim them. In sleeves there are long, short, elbow and three-quarters length sleeves, and you must remember when to wear them. The long sleeve belongs to the morning, the elbow or three-quarters length sleeve to the afternoon and the short'-gleeve is only worn in the evening. For chiffon blouses, semi-tail-ored coats and afternoon dresses the shorter length sleeve is very smart.