Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — IS ALWAYS SMART [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS ALWAYS SMART

Strictly Tailored Suit to Be Staple Fall Model.

Coat Wilf Be About Thirty-Six Inches in Length and the Skirt About Two Yards Wide. Here is, a modish little early fall “tallleur,” made of men’s wear blue serge, with collar of black velvet and braid and button trimming. This suit might also be attractively developed in Oxford gray suiting, with black braid and button trimming. There is much speculation as to the suit that will be preferred this fall and winter. It seems safe to predict that strictly tailored models featuring a coat approximately 36 inches in length and with skirts about two yards wide will be regarded as staples. This kind of suit is always smart, easily kept in shape and gives service that can never be hoped for from one of the dressy models. In’ addition to this argument, the government has indicated to manufacturers that they will do well to use fabrics sparingly, and the ultra-long suit coats recommended when fall fashion notes were first given to the public will hardly have a general vogue. The suit here shown is a youthful model, buttoning smartly in doublebreasted fashion, and with both coat and skirt equipped with pockets. The question of how strongly fall suits will continue to show the military influence is still unsettled. Some of the very early models show the military influence in the use of khaki-col-ored worsted, and in many military pockets, epaulet shoulder arrangements, etc., but It is not likely that suits for late fall and winter wear jvill be very strongly influenced by the present vogue. The Russian blouse type of suit and a modified directoire are both shown in fall and winter models; but the strict-

ly or semi-tallored garment is always safe.

Early Fall Model Suits.