Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — Traveling Coat of Wool Ratine [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Traveling Coat of Wool Ratine

AMONG the thoroughly practical fabrics used for traveling coats wool ratine has made a permanent place for Itself. It is a becoming fabric, light in weight an® unmussable. A coat made from it by Herbert, Paris, is pictured here and is an excellent model for traveling or general utility. All traveling coats should be ample as to length and width and cut on straight-hanging lines. The adjustment at the shoulder and the management of the sleeves are items upon which, they depend for style. Now that capes of all kinds are fashionable a number of coatis have been produced by designers with a short cape attached. They are becoming to the slender figure, and in some cases amount to a separate garment, as they are detachable. This makes them especially attractive where the journey brings one into quick changes of temperature.

The coat portrayed here is finished with machine-stitching and lined with light-weight broadcloth. Sleeves are eet in to a drop shoulder and finished with a broad turn-back cuff which may be brought down to the hand or turned back to about three-quarter length. The coat is belted in across the back by means of a short strap at each side, finished with a pointed end and a buttonhole. This buttons over large plain bone buttons and confines some of the fullness of the back. A long and comfortable cape makes an outer garment for traveling which may be counted upon never to be wholly unfashionable. Blit it is not as convenient as the long, straight coat. A garment cut on lines similar to those shown in the picture here and made of staple fabrics will prove as stable in style as in material.