Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — For Early Spring Street Wear [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For Early Spring Street Wear

If It Is to be a contest between the one-piece trotteur and the two-piece suit for springtime street wear, such handsome outfits as that pictured above will help the cause of suits immensely. Suits have turned In the direction of unusual lines. What with Chinese coats that have proved so effective in the popular short fur coats for midwinter, and the straight up-and-down models that have just appeared In the handsomest materials, and sleeves that flare at the wrist or go to the opposite extreme afid are skin tight, suits have not by any means played all “their trump cards. Skirts are narrow and plain, distinguished by many variatior s as to management of waistline and pockets. They are no longer than for some time, but, as to coats,’ one cannot generalize —there is too great a variety in them, too much individuality of design. The chic suit in the picture is an example of an individual style, which manages an. almost straight-line silhouette in spite of some fullness in its skirt. The broad, shaped girdle is placed somewhat below the waistline, fastening to the left with a buckle, and there is an odd group of tpcks stitched in oblongs with parallel sides.

which the tailor must have put In just to show how expert his work ran be, or~to make up for pockets which be has had the hardihood to omit. This omission is indeed unusual. Velvet in bands replaces fur as a trimming, finishing the pointed bottom of the coat and placed at the top of the small, close-fitting cuff. It overlays the collar at the back and part way down the sides. It is early in the season to consider suits for spring, but spring arrives in January or February in our southern states ; we shall have time to study suits and the trotteur long before the approach of Easter, wt en we are expected to be suited QT otherwise outfitted in the North.