Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1913 — For the Indian Summer Weather [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For the Indian Summer Weather

ONE of those pretty outer garments (made of brocaded crepe or charmeuse or other soft and supple fabric) of which so many styles are worn, is just the thing for year during autumn. Indian summer days are too warm for heavier wraps and too cool for none at all. The plain coats with tailored suits are always practical, but by way of variety and to be a little more dressed up a coat like that pictured here is a pleasant change. The liking for mole-skin gray or “taupe” color as it is generally called —has brought out a great number of these coats developed in supple materials in taupe. In some of them the figures are in raised velvets. There are, of course, very rich and they are expensive. Like so many of our fashionable o«t----er garments, this coat is cut with a klmona sleeve. A heavy cord covered with the fabric is used for embellishing the coat and accentuating certain lines in it. They keep it shapely. Without them the coat would not hang well. As in the present styles it is the banging and not the fitting which is of paramount importance, such cords, or something to take their place in providing weight, is necessary in making up the clinging and light* weight materials. This little coat is provided with a plain sailor collar in the Bame material as the body of the coat. At the front fastening two shirred puffs are placed, one at each side. They are made by shirring two strips of the material, leaving a ruffle about a half Inch wide at each side of the puff. To protect both the coat and the neck of the wearer, a little plaiting of fine net is worn. The net is plain and knife-plaited. Nearly every garment to be worn during the coming season, including coats, plush and fur neckpieces, waists and dresses, is provided with a washable plaiting. Wo-

men will appreciate this, for furs become soiled or the dye in them rubs off and it is impossible to keep the neck clean without a protection of some sort. .J Fine, washable laces are used for this purpose, especially in gowns, and are wired at the back to keep them upstanding. ' > This coat fastens with small hooks and eyes at the front. It slants away from the bust line. The small hat worn with it is of brilliant corded silk in the same color. It has a drooping brim with puff of velvet about it. A Numidi feather in the natural color is mounted in rather eccentric fashion at the back. It may be placed at the front and be equally fashionable, for those who would like it better there. A wreath of tiny velvet roses is placed about the crown, with velvet foliage. The corded- silk is laid in plaits about the crown, and the raw edge turned under. The rose-wreath defines the line at which the crown and brim meet. This hat is made on a lightweight Buckram frame. It is one of the hats which the home milliner may undertake and accomplish successfully. A fabric like* that in the coat, or matching it, may be used over the crown, instead of the corded silk. As the weather grows colder this coat may be used by wearing a warm jacket under it and a fur or plush neckpiece with it. The hat is suitable for the entire season. It would be a pretty development to make a muff matching the hat, using the same velvet and silk, as there is a fancy for odd neckpieces worn with hats and muffs that match. No one should face cold weather without a muff ,of some sort, or wait until the last moment to make one.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.