Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — LIKE THE TOPCOAT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIKE THE TOPCOAT

WOMEN REFUSE TO DISCARD SUCH ADORNMENT. < t Other Reasons Than Its Attractiveness Responsible for the Favor With Which It Evidently Is Universally Regarded. Anyone who thought that topcoats belonged to a winter climate must be amazed at their steady growth with the hot weather coming on. The reason is not difficult to find. We are indulging in the frantic pleasure of entering a new era; we must look sportive, whether or not we are. We must go to open-air events. We must look as though we are familiar with tennis championships, the decks of swift-going motor yachts and horse

racing; and topcoats of infinite variety are offered to the American public aid in this appearance. They are amazingly good-looking. So far, we have left the designing of them almost entirely to the French, whether through inability or through indifference, the reporter cannot tell. There are a few eminent examples of American designing that are worthy of the best French work, but these coats have not been available for the many; they have been priced for the exclusives. Solid colors are used in the majority of topcoats, but there is ho doubt of the strong grip that checks have. A thin, soft velour that crumples up in the hand like satin is the material

to be chosen, and the checks in it are in various colors. Women who must be eccentric at all costs are wearing voluminous capecoats of this velour, checked off in exaggerated red, white and blue. As they pass by in motors, one instinctively feels like saluting the flag. (Copyright, 1916; by the McClure News Paper’ Syndicate.)

Smart Coat of Purple Silk. The High Soft Collar Is Lined With BiscuitColored Silk.