Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1912 — FASHIONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FASHIONS

IN PLAIDS OR CHECKS MATERIALS POPULAR FOR YOUNG GIRL’S AUTUMN CLOTHES. . ——l; DeaigngAre as Pretty at Ever, and In the Fulleet Vogue—The Scotch Fabrice Are Aleo Strictly Correct. When in doubt as to missy’s autumn hat, coat or dress get something with a touch of plaid or check, for materials with these patterns are. again eminently in vogue for young people and they seem quite as pretty as ever. To quote the dressmakers for the junior world, one can never get away from the suitability of Buch materials to youth—the Scotch fabrics with their varied melange of color

and checks, big and little, seeln so juvenile and correct for young people’s wear. So here they are again with Us, holding a breath of new color sometimes, showing the familiar devioes of the Scotch clanß, in dress silks and wools, in coats, hair ribbons and buttons. The pretty designs are a great relief from the plain materials that have reigned so long—but, dear me, except for a light difference of detail, some of the long coats showing the plaid or check reverse and decking are all but twin sisters to last year's wraps. This takes nothing away from their charm, the deft changes here and there giving the last-agony touch In a way sufficiently piquant to suit the most ardent devotee of new fashions. At this season the long coat needed, for school use, and which will, of

jpourse, come in for many other so* caslons, is'of more importance to the college maid or high school girl than anything else —anything but her hat, for without a suitable headpiece the most charming coat could not be worn, coats and hats of a kind needing to run together. The shops are full of correct fabrics for it, the soft reversible coatings, plain on one side afid plaid on the ether, used last year and still with us, offering themselves as the most facile textures in the world for home sewing for all the trimmings of the coat are made of the reverse side of the materlaL

Of the plaid touch .on little girl frocks, those short-skirted gowns maids from six to eight wear, there is no end, but somehow checks seem a bit more suitable for these than the larger plaids, and many of the Russian blouse styles lend themselves most effectively to a combination of checked and plain material. The design shown id the illustration allows this use of the two materials In a very smart way, the coat being of a plain blue wool and the little skirt and blouse trimming of checked bine and white wool. Here the collar Is a fiat round affair, but If made in sailor form a shield with a high neckband could be used inside, and this arrangement might be better for the ■ lassies with tender throats. Serge, broadcloth and cheviot; are other adaptable materials, for, to be sure, the dress could be made of one fabric, and the style of it is good enough for the very best street suit.

For girls of all ages—and for women, too, for that matter —there are some perfectly round felt hats with rolling brims which respond very prettily to a binding and crown piping of plaid silk, or if the hat is already bound and banded a Scotch quill may be added to the side. So if there are bits of handsome plaid and checked fabrics in the house they will come in very handy for the trimming of youthful hats, for the very wings themselves msiy be made of silk or velvet, and when of a* fabric they always seem smarter than when the real thing.

MARY DEAN.