Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1917 — Taffeta in Spring Coat Fashions [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Taffeta in Spring Coat Fashions

—Taffeta dresses and“coals reappear each season, sure of a good following. This season, countenaneed by Paris — if that makes any difference —it prornises to be more used for afternoon and evening dresses and for separate skirts than any other silk. It leads for the last mentioned by a long way. These separate silk —skirts are Tn plaids, checks and occasional stripes, and in combinations of many colors, some of them rather startling. It is a fancy to wear long coats of plain silk over them, made in the fashion of a suit coat or a long coat of black taffeta will serve this purpose and many others. The coat of black taffeta shown in the picture is touched up with white braid and buttons and a white collar. Contrasting collars of chiffon broadcloth are a feature of these coats as well as of blouses and suits. There Is a wide, soft girdle with hanging ends tied loosely about the waist. Pockets are conspicuous by their absence on this coat, but they are suggested and the inevitable widened hip effect attained by plaited panels let In at the sides. They are set in in box plaits, stitched down with a braided

strap that leaves a standlng plaiting" over two inches wide. One of the best of the new taffeta coats is made with a plain, tight-fit-ting-bod y, decorated wl th pin t ueks running in parallel rows from the center of the back to the underarm seams. The front is similarly trimmed. The sleeves are plain and flare at the wrists, revealing their lining of soft, white satin. The skirt of the coat is very full and slopes from the front to the middle of the back, where it is pointed. It is lined with satin also. It is heavier by the weight of Its lining than coats of the sort shown in the picture.