Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1918 — FATE OF THE SHORT JACKET [ARTICLE]

FATE OF THE SHORT JACKET

Doubt is Expressed Whether the OneTime Popular Garment Will Retain Its Past Favor. It is a question as to whether the short jacket will remain at the pinnacle of fashion, but nevertheless a woman who wants to be in the picture will risk a chance on it and will find that it is not an easy garment to achieve through alteration, says a New York fashion correspondent. There is another type of coat, which appeared in America a year ago In a modified form, and upon which the French place a high valuation. It is usually called the buttonless jacket. It is crossed in the front in surplice form, and these fronts extend into long ends that go across the peplum of the jacket at the back, are loosely knotted, and then dropped. There is a Short jacket which has taken the long one as its inspiration, but it will have nothing to do with the peplum. It is fashioned after the sweaters that were worn this winter. It reaches to the waistline, and the fronts, crossing below the bust, make a soft girdle a Japanese bow at the back. The Eton jacket, the bolero, the bellboy jacket and the Dagobert corslet are in high fashion, but they are garments that demand to be bought today from a tailor or a shop. They cannot be evolved with any degree of success from' something Ihnt was good in other days.