Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1918 — About New Fall Suits [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

About New Fall Suits

Manufacturers of suits assure us that no supply of wool beyond that they have already secured Is in sight, and it follows that our spring clothes are likely to be made of some other sort of material. Already a variety of new materials is on the shelves of the stores and in the stock rooms of the factories. Whoever needs a wool suit would best buy it early in the season before the supply runs out. It may have to do service for the next three years; but it is easy to put up with this state of things. If all the wool is needed for the ever-increasing anpy, women will do without it. There are on hand just now suits and coats for fall in good wool materials and in many graceful styles. One of “them is shown above in a practical and plain model that will prove a good Investment. It will be noticed that the skirt is longer than for several seasons. This is an echo of French styles, which may or may not be accepted in America. American women like the cleanliness of shorter skirts and .they also like their most businesslike style and may Insist that, in street suits at least, the mandate for longer skirts be disobeyed.

The suit pictured is of Himalaya cloth with large revers and an over collar of plush. The coat-has a plain body with skirt pointed at each side and plaited on. It is bound with silk braid. A narrow belt wraps twice about the waist, once following the high waistline In the body and again about the top of the coat skirt. It is also trimmed with silk braid. Uneven length in coats makes graceful suits, but this style feature passed the zenith of its popularity during the spring and summer. Coats in nearly all the new suits are cut straight around the bottom, are moderately long, and many of them have large pockets. Convertible collars are meeting with such favor that we are sure of this comfortable and chic neck finishings for ,the coming fall and winter at least ,In colors brown, biege and blue have the lead, with all shades of brown in' strong demand. But one cannot make a mistake in choosing any one of them.