Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — Thoroughly Comfortable Coats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Thoroughly Comfortable Coats

Designers of coats for this winter’s wear seem to have set themselves the task of making the most thoroughly comfortable garments. More than anything else the coats of the present season convey the idea of warmth. The materials used for making them are soft, bulky and loosely woven; they look warm and are warm. Then the ajnple fullness of the styles adds to the effect of comfort, and wide collars of fur. or of the fabric, that muffle up the neck are the best asset of the designer. They are matched with generous flaring or big straight cuffs. Two very handsome models in winter coats appear in the illustration given here. In one of them a heavy Bolivia cloth is trimmed with Hudson seal fur. TBut the introduction of fur of almost any kind adds so much to the price of coats that fur-fabrics are used on similar designs, and the coats do not suffer by this substitution. Furfabrics have reached such a degree of excellence that they are as handsome and as rich looking as the skins they imitate. , The coat of Bolivia cloth is a belted model, and Duttons make an Important

item of its finish. They are set In rows at each side and on the back of the sleeves. They fasten the coat above the waistline, and the collar, when brought up about the neck, is held io place by them. The other coat is a velvet model with a noteworthy cape attachment and several attractive peculiarities of finish that distinguish it These appear in the wide place of the sleeves at the wrist in the pocket drapery at each side of the skirt, and in the double belt which fastens across the front The big collar follows the season’s vogue and is brought up about the neck like a small turned-over cape. ~