Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1913 — LONG OR SHORT COAT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LONG OR SHORT COAT

BOTH HAVE BANCTION OF FASHION THIB BEASON. V ' * ' .1 In Chiffon or Lace They Are Particularly Becoming—Rich Brocades, Elaborately Embroidered, Are Also High in Favor. There is no end to the short coats and wraps and each is more chic than the laßt, though you need time to accustom yourself to their abbreviation. Whether they are so generally becoming as the longer coats and cloaks is a question of taste. Certainly they consort better with the short skirt of the trotting frock. Long coats and cloaks for carriage and evening wear are lovelier than ever before, and the triumph of the season is the filmy coat of chiffon or lace usually without lining other than another tone of chiffon. One of the loveliest cloaks is of embroidered chiffon. The long lines of drapery are exceedingly artistic and the fullpess at the top of the coat at the hack is held in place by a square shaped tab of .exquisite embroidery. Another cloak is of brocaded crepe de chine. At the meek there is a high turndown frill of mousseline de sole.

The cloak is shirred on a cord at the shoulders and the sleeves and bottom of the coat are also shirred on a cord, of the material. Equally good in its way is the shaped coat of gray charmeuse trimmed with small rose colored silk buttons and cord loops. It is finished with a

narrow turndown collar of the rose colored silk finished with a narrow frill of rose colored chiffon. One exceedingly attractive model seen recently was of lace, chiffon and silk. At the front the upper part was draped in rever shape with a chiffon scarf, which was knotted in a large knot and ends which fell to the bottom of the cloak. The fronts were of lace over which soft silk was draped, falling in folds from the shoulders to the bottom of the garment. In soft satin and crepe, there are to be had numberless beautiful cloaks. Some of the rich supple brocades are used for superb cloaks and there are plain satins and crepes marvelously embroidered .Other models depend upon lines rather than ornamentation, and these, when successful, are veritable works of art. N > One peculiarly lovely model was In supple satin finished silken stuff which was probably a crepe' of some kind. It was in a soft cyclamen tone and was lined with a deep tdned smoky gray chiffon over whose surface was scattered a design of primroses in several cyclamen tints. The fronts fell back in soft draped revers to show the chiffon facing. All sorts of odd little shaped shoulder wraps in chiffon, lace and satin are being exploited by French designers, but many of them are en suite with frocks. One smart New York shop exhibited a model of black Chantilly lace to be worn with a costly lingerie frock, ’the front of the coat was ornamented with a large cluster of pink roses.

MARY DEAN.

Embroidered Black Crepe.