Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1915 — Forecasting Fashionable Separate Coats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Forecasting Fashionable Separate Coats

Now that Fashion allows us to choose between the coat suit and the frock with separate coat, the separate coat is a matter that must be seriously considered. Hardly any wardrobe but must possess two separate coats of some kind. One of them will take the place of the salt coat, while the .other, according to the needs of its owner, will be chosen for dress occasions for which the suit coat is not quite elaborate enough, or for hard wear where the suit coat does not fit in. Among the smartest models in the. separate coat are those of light-col-ored covert cloth with flaring skirts, trimmed with machine stitching and buttons covered with the cloth. These are wont with pretty frocks of broadcloth and soft blouse* with convertible collars. A little furbishing up with flower-trimmed millinery and corsage bouquet brings a toilette, in-

eluding the covert coat, up to the grade of a visiting or matinee toilette. To the busy woman who must start out in a day of varied demands with no time for changing gowns the separate coat is nothing short of an inspiration. The coat of bronse moire pictured here will not answer all the purposes of the cloth coat, hut it will he found immensely useful. With nice attention to other details of the toilette it may be used for the dressiest wear. As pictured with a wallring skirt and tailored hat it adapts itself to the promenade perfectly. Some of the separate coats are belted, others begin to flare from the level of the shoulders, and still others widen from the neck down. Nearly all pf them are moderately long, and those In the quieter colors arc often brilliantly lined. •:?

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.