Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1916 — FLASHY LININGS FOR COATS [ARTICLE]

FLASHY LININGS FOR COATS

Designers Have Gone to the Extreme, Both In Color and Design, in Season's Modes. One of the sensations of the coat season is the lavish use of the most astonishing linings, such patterns being selected as display the most bizarre cubist ideas—birds and florette effects, squares and patches and all manner of queer things that are not unlike poster designs. Since the outer garment is so conservative in effect, it is only reasonable that the designer should go happily crazy over the interior decorations. Pussy willow and all the new figured silks are most in favor. A few solid colors are used, but more often the selection is some dizzifying stripe or even check —very noisy, but always with a color note that Is harmonious tfith the outer fabric, which may be of wool velours, broadcloth, velour de nord or plush. Following the present interest in gold tones, the best patterns embrace old gold and green, old gold and empire blue or old gold and black—the color of the garment, of course, determining the selection of the lining.