Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1918 — NEW SUMMER COAT [ARTICLE]

NEW SUMMER COAT

Three-Quarter Garments Again Introduced in Suits. Fashion Does Not Disobey Woo! Limitations Set by the Government, Tailors Claim. Now another bit of perverseness in fashions, which is not as bad as it sounds, notes a fashion correspondent, is that France has brought in threequarter coats as a new summer fashion, at a time when three governments have asked women to economize in wool.

These suits are made of w’odT’lahd look as though,all obedience had been thrown to the winds. But this is not so. The tailors claim that the suit is made on such slim proportions that it is kept within the four and a half yards allowed by the government; and they also say that the top of the skirt is of taffeta or satin, which is covered at the backhand sides by the long coat and by that übiquitous apron waistcoat which spreads itself between the fronts Of the coat and reaches half way between waist and knees. France is making these coats in a broad, mosaic design. Blocks of black and white are placed against each other, and the collars and cuffs are of American sealskin.

The long waistcoat, which in truth is sometimes made exactly like an apron, is of linen, pongee, tinseled satin and tinted muslin. - Paris is quite delighted over these apron waistcoats made of pale pink, niauve, yellow, Joffre blue and violet organdie or lawn. They are sometimes fastened down the front with tiny white buttons, but usually they 'do not present any break In the front line. They are more becoming and novel this way.