Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — FANCIES AND FADS OF FASHION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FANCIES AND FADS OF FASHION

By Julia Bottomley

NEW COAT OF BOLIVIA CLOTH

A very practical coat for general wear is made of Bolivia cloth, which is especially effective in the rich, warm colors that are destined to prevail during the coming winter. In burgundy, rhododendron, prune, taupe and castor this cloth seems suited to the colors, and this is true' of duvetyn and broadcloth also. The coat pictured manages the new style features of the season very cleverly. It sets closer to the figure about the .body than the passing style. The skirt has a moderate flare and reaches to within six inches of the bottom of the skirt at the front, lengthening a little toward the back. In some of the new models there is a much greater difference in the length of the front and back of the coat. The sleeves are plain, with deep cuffs, and the wide

MADE BY THE HOME DRESSMAKER

A dress and a coat, both made by a home dressmaker for a little miss of ten or thereabout, are worth notice for their simplicity and good style. The dress is of pink chambray, but may be developed in plain, striped or plaid ginghams, in linen, or in the heavier cotton goods, with equal success. It is cut with a circular skirt set to a plain bodice which is large enough to admit of Its being gathered in a little about , the waistline. The sleeves may be cut elbow length or even longer. Where the skirt is set on to the waist narrow beading conceals the seam, and velvet ribbon run through it serves to hold the fullness of the body to place. The neck is rounded out, front and back, and set oh to a yoke of embroidered organdie. An organdie edging is used to make it, and ruffles

turnover collar has a velvet inlay. This is the universal collar, in shape, and it buttons up about the neck in a way to defy the coldest weather. The model hangs straight at the front, fastening a little to one side with large buttons. The cuff is merely a wide band of the material trimmed into a rounded tab at one end. The tab is fastened down under a button made of a mold covered with the cloth. There are points of moderate size at each side that carry out the same idea, having overlapping tabs decorated with a button. All seams are overlapped and ma-chine-stitched down. The waistline, as indicated by the seams in the back of the body, is low. At the termination of these seams a tab is set on to the coat with a large button by way of finish. This model is excellent for a driving coat, and cannot be improved upon as a general utility garment.

of it are set in the sleeves. The dress fastens at the back with small pearl buttons. The plain coat of broadcloth may be made also in other materials of like weight. It has long coat sleeves and a deep cape collar. Silk braid or narrow, fiife cluny lace makes a pretty finish for the collar. This is a coat for autumn wear. Those for winter now displayed for little misses are of velvet, plush, Bolivia, and other heavy cloths. They are made with high turnover collars, and often trimmed with narrow bands Of fur. Numbers of them are dpuble-breasted, and practically all of them are straight hanging, reaching to the bottom of the dress. Even in heavy materials for winter wear the little miss’s coat is not too difficult for the home dressmaker to make. The present style? are simply cut and all the standard pattern companies have patterns that are easy tc follow, - u