Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1915 — Coats for the Demi-Season [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Coats for the Demi-Season

COATS for the demi-season and those suggestive of outings, classed as “sports coats,” are commanding attention just now. Both are pleasantly suggestive of spring and out-of-doors. The sports coats could hardly be overlooked, because they are not meant to be. Wide stripes, big plaids (In subdued colors), and striking originalities in design proclaim them worthy of their name. The between-seasons coat, for general wear, is a quieter affair made up in mixtures for plain colors, cut with great cleverness and made up with a perfection of workmanship that it is a pleasure to behold. p* risking something of the nature of both the street and the sports coat Is the- attract!ve modelshownln the

er a small check as checks go in sports coats, and cut on simple lines. It is sloping shouldered, narrow breasted and flowing as to skirt, thus fulfilling the requirements of the new order of things in coats. ' Many of these demi-season coats are cut much longer than the model shown here. They are made to meet all the requirements of out-of-door recreations, including automobiHng in the chill air of early spring. Large but-, tons and wide girdles, made of the material of the coat, first eatch the eye, in considering their details of construction. Collars are ample and made to roll up close about the neck; altogether they promise much comxCaaTe- t -- JULIABOTTOMLEY.