Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1912 — WINTER WRAP DESIGNS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WINTER WRAP DESIGNS

SIMPLICITY NOT A FEATURE OF THE NEW STYLES. Prominent Idea Is the Large Collars, Meant to Be Rolled Up About the Ears In Extreme Cold Weather. The new wraps, designed for the coming winter, are long, loose, rpomy affairs, whether they are to be used for general utility or for dressy wear. With all their apparent simplicity, they are carefully cut, and, in fact, anything but simple. Heavy clothes, for ordinary year, are used In the coats designed for comfort. Collars are large and arranged to roll up about the neck when needed. The two-faced fabrics will be popular again, providing reversible garments in some instances. A gray coat, having a reverse side in amethyst color may be worn either side out. Dark blue or black with reverse side in heather color is another chic combination. For street wear the sober colors are chosen; for the auto ride, and for many other occa-

sions the brighter colors provide a better choice. These heavy coats are as warm, almost, as fur, and have certain advantages over these luxurious gasments. Evening wraps and those designed with an eye to grace and beauty, are much draped. The kimono coat holds Its own along with the new wraps of satin and velvet. The combination of rich embroideries with dark solid color fabrics must be conceded to be most beautiful. Wraps of black satin lined with the same or contrasting colors, are draped much in the manner of the new skirts, and when fastened, display their-lines to the best advantage, enfolding the figure gracefully. Many brocaded linings are to be used, Royal blue with glints of bright gold, shades of copper and brown, rich purples and exquisite gray and white are alluring splendors in these fabrics.

When considering garments of velvet, satin, etc., lined with bfocades, It must be borne in mind that they for grown-ups, for matrons, "had not for. the young maid, There f Is nothing about them to suggest girlhqod. Simpler clothes, or at least those that seem simpler, belong properly to the merry maid, before she takes on the dignity of the matron. . JULIA BOTTOMLEY.