Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — FASHIONS’ EDICTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FASHIONS’ EDICTS

INSTRUCTIONS AND - ADVICE BY JULIA BOTTOMLEY

COATS FOR THE EARLY SEASON.

A light coat for the demi-season is a necessity and it must be of a character to suit almost any occasion. Whenever a chill in the air demands it, morning, afternoon or evening, it is to grace its wearer by its conservative but undeniably good style. It is one of the difficult things that designers face each spring, and they wrestle with its problems with varying "success. The spring coat depends upon its style to make it a ready seller or a failure, in the eyes of the manufacturer. It must be in line with the mode as to shape, quiet as to color, and an advantage to the figure of the wearer. Hence there are many models. An elegant demi-season coat of gabardine shown in the picture, is lined with striped taffeta. It is banded with silk in self color, about the bottom and at the cuffs. The smdll turnover collar is of velvet. The body of the coat is semifitting with belt across the back. Its skirt at the sides and below the belt at the back hangs in godets. There is less fullness in it at the front and from the shoulders to a point several inches

below the waist line it hangs straight. Like so many of the new coats it betrays ingenious cutting. There is a pointed yoke at the back that suggests a little cape. The upper part of the body terminates in a long point at each side in the front. But these details in shaping are inconspicuous. Except for a few buttons and the silk banding the coat is untrimmed. The model is in a very dark blue,—- — — Besides these trim semifitting models there are others with fuller lines and cut somewhat longer. One of the handsomest models made of covert and other cloths is cut to hang straight but very full. The waist line is defined by rows of shirring at each side and by a belt across the back and front. It has deep cuffs and a wide collar that may be turned up about the -neck. An extreme of the flaring mode has attracted much attention, although it is made of dark blue gabardine. It has a high cape collar and panels down the front of blue-and-white checked material. It flares from the shoulders down, buV a belt which emerges from slashes at each side of the front pretends to hold its fullness somewhere near the waist of the wearer, at the front. _ — — —