Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1912 — COAT AND SKIRT COSTUMES [ARTICLE]

COAT AND SKIRT COSTUMES

Charming Designs and Many Model* Are Provided from Which to Make a Selection. Tailormade coat and skirt costumes are very much under discussion at the moment, and many of them are carried out in fine navy serge and adorned with long rows of embroidered buttons. Others, again, are trimmed more or less elaborately with black silk braiding, and arranged with smartly cut coats, lined with white satin, and finished with collars of blabk corded silk. A new and very effective navy serge costume has a skirt which opens down the center of the front to Bhow a narrow panel of the same material, covered closely with black braiding. The coat, which is made in a short threequarter length, has broad fevers braided, to match the panel which adorns the front of the skirt, the cuffs being braided to correspond. In the course of the last fortnight & fair number of new models in cloth taffetas and charmeuse have been launched upon the Paris stage and at the races. One point is certain, the vogue of the long sleeve is established, and, in nine cases out of ten, we find it adapted to the principal creations of the rival camps in the dressmaking world. 4fee principal object in reviving this sleeve is to reveal the shape of the arm in all its beauty. In thick materials for tailor costumes, such as serge or cloth, the sleeve starts from the shoulder seam, and is cut on almost tight fitting classical lines.