Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — VALUE OF CONTRASTING COAT [ARTICLE]

VALUE OF CONTRASTING COAT

Garment Makes far Real Economy In That It Will Serve for Many Different Costumes. An economy is found in the contrasting coat. The same skirt tailor built and perfectly cut has been made to serve with three or four coats, says the Indianapolis News. Take the favorite black and white stripe, for example. This may be worn with a coat to match and by way of change with a neat, short coat of black habit cloth lined with braid, while a saucy little jacket of scarlet silk will quite transform the toilet. The changes may be rung In the same fashion with the übiquitous navy serge. The survival of this idea is Indicated in the coming evening styles, and one can see how in this case it may be a very real economy, since it often happens that an evening bodice Is unpresentable, while the skirt is still in good condition. The idea of a blouse for evening wear being now hopelessly old-fashioned it is not easy to do much with a skirt, and yet we do not care to see It hanging in the cramped space of the wardrobe. Into this dilemma the taffeta coat introduces Itself with complete success, and the old evening frock becomes fashionably transformed.