Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1914 — Separate Jacket in Original Design [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Separate Jacket in Original Design

IF YOU need a separate jacket for wear with summer toilettes, on any occasion where a little extra warmth must be provided, consider the wonderfully chic model pictured here. The ordinary coat or jacket which is called into requisition merely for warmth, is apt to be commonplace and to take away from the costume something of style. Here is one that adds distinction. It is entirely original in line and has an amount of snap and vigor which is refreshing in these days of modes that are generally described as “sloppy." Already the tide has set toward styles of a different character, and by fall we are likely to'be quite military looking in our bearing and our trappings. This jacket, is a premonition. It is from the establishment of one of the younger Paris costumers and belongs to a suit, in fact. This suit has a striped skirt of a material different from the jacket Such suits have been made in cloth and in silk, and besides their charming effect they have been extraordinarily successful because the jackets are available for wear with other skirts and costumes. Light tans, modes and grays are a safe choice in color, and black is really the safest of all. Deep and quiet shades of green have been used with

good effect and will harmonize with’ any other of the fashionable colors. Buttons are featured on the jackets for midsummer. On silk and crepe suits' .fiat pearl buttons in white, sewed down with black silk heavy thread make a decorative feature that is remarkably elegant. Black taffeta jackets, or others made of bengaline, have pearl buttons and the buttonholes are worked in white silk thread. Silver buttons are good on black and white combinations, and covered buttons, especially those made in the “acorn” style, are having just now a great vogue. The material of the suit, or its trimming, is used for covering the molds. The jacket, or coat, shown here is a modified Russian blouse. Instead of a basque it is finished with a wide band of the material, extending about the hips. It is long waisted and becoming to figures somewhat stout, as well as to slender ones. Other models in these separate jackets have the same advantages as this one. That is, they embody originality in design and the new style features in decoration which give them so much tone. If one looks for these characteristics the useful little separate jacket is sure to be a success. - 4 i