Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1916 — Foltowing the Initial Vogue in Coats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Foltowing the Initial Vogue in Coats

Very rich-looking coats are made of smooth-surfaced cloths, with fine heavy broadcloth heading the list of desirables. They are useful for wear at almost any time, quiet and elegant looking, and many of them finished with velvet in the collar and cuffs. A good example of the plain cloth coat is given in the picture shown here. It follows the initial styles of the present season, in a conservative way, with its high, flaring collar, full and slightly flaring skirt, 1 and large coat sleeves. The belt is placed in a novel way, slipping under a panel at the back of the coat and ending, like many others, in rounded ends at each side. Buttons in two sizes, made by covering molds with the cloth, are used for fastening the coat and to provide for its decoration. They appear down the front, at the ends of the belt and on the panel at the back, in the large

size. The smaller buttons are placed at the front of the collar and in closeset rows on the velvet inlay at the cuffs. Coats of this kind are lined for warmth and made in the roomy fashion that allows a knitted vest or sweater to be worn under them in the extremest weather. They are usually double breasted and made with straight and ample coat sleeves that are relieved from a too plain effect by the management of the cuffs. These are cut with a certain eccentricity or trimmed noticeably so that they are in keeping with the collar, which is featured in accordance with the season’s demands. A model, like the one shown here, that contrives to be conservative without being commonplace, and smart without any indication of the sports styles, deserves the attention of the woman of quiet taste.