Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1916 — Among Autumn Coats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Among Autumn Coats

Pile fabrics have reached a degree of beauty which makes them rival fur. At first they were woven to imitate the pelts of animals, and at this they show themselves marvelously adept. But now their designers are looking for new worlds to conquer and thinking along Independent lines. Many of the new plushes and velvets do not seek to imitate anything, but to establish an unrivaled position for beauty and durability in their own field. A coat made of two-toned plush, shown in the picture, is an example of this new departure in the world of pile fabrics. Bands of fur, as in so many of this season’s coats, are used for trimming and for the collar. Beaver, in this Instance, matches the castor which prevails ip the coat The surface of wavy lines is in castor and black. The coat hangs loose at the front and Is shirred at the waistline across the back. The large buttons are covered with fur, and the cords that define the shirring are terminated at each side with a big flat cabochon of fur.

The rolled-over collar may be turned up about the neck. As pictured, the collar of. a striped blouse is turned over it. Many of the new coats reach to the bottom of the dress, but an equal number are from four to six inches shorter than the dress skirt, like the model in the illustration. These newest designs in pile fabrics “are adapted to elegant coat suits for winter wear. The coats are as widely useful as coats of fur and have the charnvof novelty—whtcirls an irrisistible feature of their makeup.