Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — USE LEATHER AS TRIMMING [ARTICLE]

USE LEATHER AS TRIMMING

Idea Is Expected to Be Extended From Motor Coats to Suits, Dresses and Even Millinery. the possible results of the military styles being featured this season is the greater use of leather by way of trimming. While heretofore certain of the motor coats have shown collars, cuffs and belts of suede, or of glazed leather, it is now anticipated that suits, dresses, wraps and even millinery will be decorated with leather in various colors, and in schemes necessitated by the fact that such garniture will be, in effect, the byproduct or waste of large skins used for army purposes. Thus, as has been proved frequently tn the history of dress, novelty will be the outcome of economy and necessity.