Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1914 — IN SPORTING CLOTHES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN SPORTING CLOTHES

DESIGNERS SHOW SOME GOOD NEW EFFECTS. “Dressing the Part” Is a Thing In Which Women Take Vital Interest, and the Fact Has Been k ' Recognized. By MART DEAN. Sporting clothes are a matter of the moment and each new sport that is taken up by women means an additional costume, or perhaps several additional costumes, in the summer outfit. Dressing the part is the cornerstone of the average woman’s interest in sports, and though each year the designers turn out sporting costumes more appropriate as well as more becoming than those of the previous year, attractiveness must not be sacrificed to practi?»l utility if the model

is to succeed in winning feminine approval. There are rough Norfolk suits for tramping and various short skirts with the accompanying blouses and sweater and proper boots. The skirt for tramping should be very short, and there is no choice of footwear at least, as the boots must always be made of short tan leather. These heavy boots must have wide thick soles and flat heels, and if they are well made, the

sole should be perfectly flexible. For the general utility tramping costume, nothing has ever taken the place of the old standby—the Norfolk suit. This has been modified and varied in a* number of ingenious iways, but it retains the characteristic Norfolk cut. This serviceable suit can be had in various materials, In the durable corduroy khaki, which is durable enough In reality and handsome when new, but soon grows to look shabby under hard usage, and in the new English worsteds and tweeds, homespuns and

serges which seem to have been invented for this particular purpose. The skirts of these suits are always short, at least from six to nine inches from the ground and are never kilted, except in some cases there is an inverted plait. One tramping suit of the modified Norfolk cut shown by a firm which makes a specialty of sporting garments was of khaki. The suit was a three-piece affair. There was a

blouse with a roll collar and fastened down the front with a single row rof buttons, and a belt of the material which buttoned a little to the left. The skirt was fastened to the blouse by means of small steel clasps. The skirt fastened at either the back or front There was an inset piece at the back and front underneath the buttoned part to give more width to the skirt if desired. Two large patch pockets trimmed the skirt. The coat was made with a shaped yoke to which

were attached, back and front two box plaits running from yoke to the bottom of the coat A belt of the material surrounded the coat at the waist-line-running underneath the box plaits, and fastened at the front with a single button. There is a general utility cape called the Lancaster cape, made of Scotch tweed. Such a wrap as .this would be found useful in the out-door outfit —for either mountain or shore.

Auto or Sport Coat

Warm Wrap for After the Game.