Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1917 — NEW HATS FROM OLD COATS [ARTICLE]

NEW HATS FROM OLD COATS

Clever Woman Evolves Good-Looklnfl Sports Sult Out of Garments That Had Been Discarded. Perhaps you have a last year’s suit or one of even older date, in which the skirt is still good but which is doing you no good because the coat is out of style. Don’t hang it in the closet to take up room and gather dust, for it is really the foundation of this year’s street costume. A very clever woman evolved a good-looking sports suit out of just such an almost-lost-forever garment. The original suit in this instance was a Plaid brown, yellow apd green. The material was so good and the skirt in such splendid condition that the owner, who is one of those much-to-be-admlred-and-copled persons who is always well dressed without spending a small fortune, could not find it in her thrifty soul to put it in the discard. She ripped up the coat, had the jaunty little sport hat made from the pieces and bought at a sporting goods house a boy’s jersey in heather colors to blend with the plaid. The loose box lines of the jersey take it out of the sweater class and with a slight alteration and the addition of collar and cuffs in a plain color to correspond with the skirt, it has become the coat of a sport suit that would have cost many times the amount expended in fixing this one up. It is just the thing for business, beach or golf.