Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — New Male Garment Planned. [ARTICLE]

New Male Garment Planned.

Get ready for next fall, felloes, for the- blanket cape. For you are going to have your appearance changed. The new sartorial style is really a cape and blanket, which will be hung over many a pair of maseifli&e shoulders. Just how many it will hang over is yet to be determined, but if the Interest the invention aroused at the concluding session of the semi-annual meeting of the American Designers’ association in the Martinique hotel is sustained the garment will acquire considerable vogue, writes «the New York correspondentofthe Pittsburgh Dispatch. The blanket cape consists of an army blanket with a few holes and buttons and a detachable collar. When the owner is asleep the blanket cape performs its primal functions of keeping the sleeper warm, and nothing more. When he awakens he removes a circular bit of cloth buttoned to. the middle of the, blanket and unbuttons a slit about a foot long that starts at the hole. This gives him plenty of room in which to insert his head. A Napoleonic ■*’ storm col lar is then attached to the hole collar and the two dies that fall over the arms are connected into sleeves by concealed buttons. And there he stands, in a smartlooking poncho that gives him lots of room to get into his pockets and Teeps away the eold also' -It -can be tiny col--or or any cloth the wearer chooses, but these details are left for the authflr of “Wlrnt the Men Wear” lo have a little fun with.