Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1916 — IN THE WORLD OF FASHION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE WORLD OF FASHION

Modes of the Moment

You may take your choice, this spring, between a one-piece dress cr two-pieee suit for street wear. And in the suit the skirt and coat may not be alike in material, but they must be manifestly made for each other. The chances are that most women will have things for street wear made In each one of these three styles. But If the choice must be only one of the three it is more than likely to fall epon the two-piece suit. _ An ideal suit is shown in the picture. which may be developed in any suiting, either wool or silk, and in many of the new cotton weaves, with equal success. The flare of the skirt, with its length and fullness, the hang of the coat and ripple of its peplum, and the hint of a cape at the neck.

combine in proclaiming this a suit for spring,- It is shown here made of awool rep with the little cape and narrow standing collar of satin. The collar terminates at each side of the throat as in so many of the new models having a short V at the front. The coat is fitted rather close about the body, with waist line higher at the back than in front. It is cut to form a panel at the front, where the body and peplum are in one. At the sides and back the peplum is set on with a corded piping. High buttons, which may be made of the fabric of the suit combined with satin like that in the collar, are set down the front, and there are three on each sleeve. Narrow ties, made of satin, with little barrel-shaped ornaments at the ends, fall from each side of the collar and make a pretty finish at the neck. The spring suits and gowns provide collars in a diversity of styles. Those that open at the front for comfort and are high at the back for style are naturally destined to be popular. At least half of the new hats which allure us in the milliner’s window are made of shiny materials. Braids and ribbons and foliage and flowers have taken on a burnish of some kind and everything-is varnished and polished as if to outshine the eyes they beguile. Upon examination, these hats and their trimmings prove to be really varnished. It is an Innovation that promises to be more than a fad, for millinery flowers and foliage look much less fragile and promise to resist the weather far more successfully than in the past. Three hatß for early spring are shown here, each of them reflecting

the liking for high luster in surfaces of straw and trimmings. The small round hat at the left is a brigbt-finish strawbraid with two bands of black and white striped moire silk about the brim and side crown, and the top crown covered with stripes. It is finished at the side with a cockade of plaited ribbon in black. At the center a small hat with brim of milan has a crown of satin straw. There is a wreath about it of small rose leaves and groups of little roses. A very tall effect is given by a single standing loop of wide satin ribbon wired for support. At the right a hat having a crofm of sipper straw is otherwise covered with a band of sequins. It is decorated with three fans of malincs edged

with fancy braid. They are fastened at the base with a knot of ribbon. A single rose with small bud stems and foliage is ‘posed flat against the brim at the right side. Even roses like this are varnished and are quite as beautiful as before this finishing and preserving touch stiffened their petals and glazed their leaves.

Julia Bottomley

AN IDEAL-SUIT FOR SPRING.

IN THE MILLINER'S WINDOW.