Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1917 — One of the New Spring Suits [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

One of the New Spring Suits

One of the new spring suits, with many novel features in its construction to make it interesting, is shown in the accompanying picture. It is trim looking and graceful, to start with, and these commendable characteristics are brought about by the cleverest sort of -management in the cutting. It seems for, the past, three yeaTs that Tailors have studied the desired silhouette, then bent their energies on accomplishing it, each season, by original methods of cutting. In- the eoat pictured the side bodies are cut away under the arms in a curve that is extended into the belt across the front. A panel at the middle of the back terminates a Tittle above the waistline and the short skirt of the coat is gathered under it. At the front the waistline is a trifle lower and the coat skirt is laid in a plait under it at each side. Four wide tucks

are laid in the lower part of each side body. At the head of each of these tucks, soutache braid, in white, is stitched in a double row, with beautiful exactness. It appears on the back panel, where two large bone buttons, one at each side, form an additional decorative feature. The coat has plain coat sleeves with turned back cuffs and a large collar of whitje satin trimmed with braid. It fastens with bone buttons at the front. In the skirt the side panels in the coat tire repeated and they are finished with tucks headed with braid in the same manner. There are wide inverted plnits nt .the back nnd..,f rent and the skirt ~is _ just long enough to fall an inch below the boot tops. Women have not taken kindly to the lengthened skirt, especially in suits, and the skirt pictured may be accepted as quite long enough.