Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1917 — Introducing Suits and Fabrics [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Introducing Suits and Fabrics

Fashion holds a loose rein this season and leaves much to the fancy of the individual. If only she contrives =tb be smart and somewhat original she may please herself as to the length of her coat, the lines of her silhouette and the material of hex smlt. She who loves the plain, tailor-made suit in quiet colors is much approved by fashionable sentiment, and she who cannot be happy in severe things may go a long way in elaboration. Nevertheless the predominating style In tailored suits is built bn the almost straight line silhouette, with a threequarter length (or slightly longer) coat and a plain skirt without any fullness-to spare and hanging straight. It may even cup in a little toward the bottom, and buttoned up the 'side seams from the hem almost to the knee. There Is no attempt to make

suit skirts longer and eight Inches above the floor is a safe rule for them. There are several new names for soft woolen cloths, usually descriptive of their surfaces. -Instead of trying to remember them all—for no one.else is apt to —they may be classed as the “glove finish” materials, as their names imply—suede twill, wool jersey, velours, broadcloth, bolivia, are all of this character. ; The suit shown here has a plain skirt, fuller than the average. The coat is semi-fitting with straight line down the front, and a fashionable fullness over the hips, where it is set on to a belt curved at the sides. Two small pockets appear below the belt and there is a convertible collarjrf the material. The hem of is very narrow and there are no decorative features except the buttons on the pockets,